The Perks of Being a Wallflower Summary

Set in Pittsburgh, PA in August of 1991 a young boy starts to write to untold stranger under the name Charlie. He hears about this friend from a conversation he heard in school. Charlie writes to express himself because he heard this stranger didn't try to sleep with a drunk girl at a party, even though he had the chance.

The stories kick off point is Charlies best friend commits suicide, while they were just about to start high school.   Threw the letters we hear Charlie talk about his favorite person on the world, his late Aunt Helen who had something terrible happen to her, but dose not talk about it because it takes him to a dark place.

Soon after the start of school Charlie meets and has an instant crush on a high school senior named Sam, as well as becoming friends with her flamboyant gay step brother Patrick.

Threw his new friends Charlie gets into the underground seen where it the three things you need are drugs, sex, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. When they are all high off of pot they go into a truck and stand in the bed while going threw a tunnel. They call it being infinite.

Charlie starts to date a girl, and threw a game of truth a dare, Charlies world beings to unravel. He's dared to kiss the girl he finds the most beautiful in the room. He walks past his girlfriend and across the room and kisses Sam. This upsets his girlfriend and makes everyone mad at Charlie.

After a few days of being alone, Charlies family walks in to see him sitting naked on the couch, staring at the TV. He was in a coma like state.

The doctors found out that he had been doing that every Saturday since his aunt passed away, but everyone was to busy to notice. The reason why it was only on Saturday is that Saturdays were the days he spent with his Aunt Helen.

Sam and Patrick come back and they become friends once more.

The book ends with Charlie going threw a tunnel to fell infinite, and not scared anymore of the world and knowing when things go wrong that they do work out.