Title: a generation's voice
Product review: I read The Perks Of Being a Wallflower expecting a reincarnation of an overused coming of age formula. I was pleasantly relieved. Chbosky certainly summoned the tradition of Holden Caufield in Charlie but created a modern portrait that has reinvigorated the genre. Charlie, like Caufield, lacks the adolescent spirit of complascency and instead allows his mind to ponder truth where there are only lies. Charlie has his friends, who have clearly lived the same hell, to guide him through the gauntlet of acceptance, understanding and presence. Charlie's age is inconsequential. And while his experiences are hardly universal, he seeks and finds (most of) the answers that subconsciously trouble a generation. Charlie seeks the answers to the questions most of us will not ask. Chbosky has personified the voice of our generation.
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