Blog Post 4

Three scenes that would be essential to keep with The Perks of Being a Wallflower would be the scenes where everyone goes to the Rocky Horror Picture Shows, the moments where Charlie thinks about his Aunt Helen before and after she died, and the christmas party where Charlie gives Patrick the mixed tapes and the poem that left everyone speechless. The scenes when he goes to the shows with Patrick and Sam show how connected he became to the life he was living after he met Patrick and Sam. The moments when Charlie is thinking about his Aunt Helen before and after he ends up in the hospital is important because it gives the reader a reason as to why he was so uncomfortable around Sam before she left for college and what caused him to end up in the hospital. The scene of the christmas party is also an important scene because it gives that moment of pause when after he read the poem out loud to everyone that nobody smiled or cried or got angry, but just sat there, looking at him with stunned faces as to why he chose that specific poem.

Two specific scenes I would want to cut would be the scenes where he is dating Mary Elizabeth and the scene where Charlie's sister becomes pregnant and he takes her to the clinic. The reason for taking out the part where he is dating Mary Elizabeth is because it was very pointless and didn't have a huge effect on the plot of the story and was just a waste of space. The reason for taking out the part where his sister becomes pregnant is that it was also just a small part that had no real value towards the story and even though it shows a moment where his sister tells him that she loves him, there are other parts in the book that she says i love you for other reasons.