#stephen chobosky

[girlwiththemouseyhair]

ABOS Books and Beats Challenge: September 17th

The Perks of Being a Wallflower//Straight Lines

I don't need no time to say There's no changing yesterday If we keep talking and I keep walking in straight lines

[pensive-naivete]

Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poem And he called it "Chops" because that was the name of his dog And that's what it was all about And his teacher gave him an A and a gold star And his mother hung it on the kitchen door and read it to his aunts That was the year Father Tracy took all the kids to the zoo And he let them sing on the bus And his little sister was born with tiny toenails and no hair And his mother and father kissed a lot And the girl around the corner sent him a Valentine signed with a row of X's and he had to ask his father what the X's meant And his father always tucked him in bed at night And was always there to do it Once on a piece of white paper with blue lines he wrote a poem And he called it "Autumn" because that was the name of the season And that's what it was all about And his teacher gave him an A and asked him to write more clearly And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because of its new paint And the kids told him that Father Tracy smoked cigars And left butts on the pews And sometimes they would burn holes That was the year his sister got glasses with thick lenses and black frames And the girl around the corner laughed when he asked her to go see Santa Claus And the kids told him why his mother and father kissed a lot And his father never tucked him in bed at night And his father got mad when he cried for him to do it. Once on a paper torn from his notebook he wrote a poem And he called it "Innocence: A Question" because that was the question about his girl And that's what it was all about And his professor gave him an A and a strange steady look And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because he never showed her That was the year that Father Tracy died And he forgot how the end of the Apostle's Creed went And he caught his sister making out on the back porch And his mother and father never kissed or even talked And the girl around the corner wore too much makeup That made him cough when he kissed her but he kissed her anyway because that was the thing to do And at three a.m. he tucked himself into bed his father snoring soundly That's why on the back of a brown paper bag he tried another poem And he called it "Absolutely Nothing" Because that's what it was really all about And he gave himself an A and a slash on each damned wrist And he hung it on the bathroom door because this time he didn't think he could reach the kitchen.

Stephen Chbosky

[pensive-naivete]

"You see things. And you understand. You're a wallflower."

Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

[un-orizzonte-di-carta]

Ti spiego com’è stare tra le tue braccia: L’hai mai fatto un viaggio importante? Anche breve, uno di quelli che ti portano a fare un esame universitario, un’interrogazione, un colloquio, una visita medica urgente. L’hai mai fatto? Credo proprio di sì. Ecco, stare tra le tue braccia è il viaggio di ritorno, quando finalmente è tutto okay

-Noi siamo infinito

[staceysecret]

[lepidopterium]

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

[lifeisawaitinggame]

I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that... I just want it all to stop spinning.

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

[engelzeit]

Las Ventajas de ser Invisible- Stephen Chbosky

Sipnosis:

Vivir al margen ofrece una perspectiva única. Pero siempre llega el momento de entrar en escena y ver el mundo desde adentro.

Reseña:

Charlie es un chico de 15 años, debiéremos decir muy especial, no tiene amigos ( su único amigo Michael se suicido), no sale con chicas, es tímido,le encanta leer, muy sincero, sensible, es muy inocente y su modo de pensar es muy diferente que el muchos chicos de su edad....demasiado. Pero todo cambiara en la vida de Charlie cuando conoce a Sam y Patrick, los chicos mas populares y vitales de la escuela, que lo sumergirán de pleno en lo que es ''la adolescencia''.

- Este libro comienza con las cartas que escribe Charlie a una ''x'' persona, en las que Charlie va contando , al estilo de un diario, sus experiencias de día a día. Según pasan los días, se puede ver como poco a poco la vida de Charlie cambia, de ser un ''invisible total'' a tener una ''vida'', gracias a Sam y Patrick .Sam, una chica de ultimo curso, social, bonita,  una buena persona y el gran amor de Charlie. Patrick, un chico de ultimo curso, pariente de Sam, extrovertido, alegre, bromista, un buen chico; los dos, aunque no aportaron algunas cosas buenas a Charlie, fueron los que lo impulsaron a salir de esa burbuja y los que hicieron que Charlie por fin se implicara en el mundo en el cual se mantenía al margen y encontrara la luz al final de túnel( literalmente). 

''Ese momento en el que sabes que no eres una triste historia.Estas vivo. Y ves las luces en los edificios y todo lo que te hace preguntarte, y estas escuchando esa canción con la gente que mas quieres... y en ese momento, juro, eramos infinitos''

 Charlie es un personaje único, muchas de sus situaciones me conmovieron , otras me contrariaron, y otras me sacaron una sonrisa, realmente un chico único; yo creo que muchos podremos identificarnos con Charlie en varias situaciones de su vida.

Ahora,lo que mas me encanta del personaje de Charlie, es obviamente la forma en como ve las cosas a su alrededor, a pesar que su forma de pensar sea un poco irreal para un chico de su edad, esto es lo que lo hace único entre todos, su forma de ver las cosas y explicarlas de una forma fresca y original es algo que me encanta, incluso su bipolaridad y sensibilidad:

 ''Es ahora mi libro favorito de todos los tiempos, aunque siempre pienso eso, hasta que leo otro libro" 

-También cabe recalcar al profesor de Charlie, Bill, ya que el es una de las pocas personas que logra motivar y comprender a Charlie y verlo como alguien, el le recomienda a Charlie un montón de libros que son, para que decir, los libros próximos a nuestra lista de compras; también a la Tía Helen, personaje que marco mucho la vida de Charlie, realmente casi todos los personajes tienen algo que aportar sea para bien o para mal.