Five Reasons Why Sam is a Literary Hero
Sam is essentially a literary character. She is a “daredevil”
while going around she invites Sam in unlike anyone else… She makes Charlie
feel special, she gets his out of his “dark hole”.
To tell you how she did this so well here are five reasons
why Sam is the real hero in The Perks of
Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.
1.
She makes
Charlie have fun, gets his mind off of being depressed.
Even though they might not be the
best decisions she still reaches out and gets him out of that bad place, makes
him feel like he has someone to go to and makes him feel involved. Yes they are
all older and they all do things that they’re not supposed to but they’re
teenagers… As they were coming home from homecoming, Sam decides she is going
to stand up out of the car in a tunnel and put her arms out like a bird,
Charlie just sat there and smiled.
2.
She makes
Charlie fall in love.
Charlie may have fallen in love
with her and it wasn’t the best idea but she doesn’t just think it’s weird and
stops talking to him she tries to get him out of it. She lets him know that she
doesn’t feel the exact same way and still is nice about it. In the end she ends
up falling in love with Charlie and when she goes to collage she doesn’t stop
thinking about him… AS Charlie was helping Sam pack for collage they ended up
getting very intimate and in the end Charlie decides to call it off because of
Sam going to college.
3.
She helped
him pay attention in school and get better grades.
As Sam was helping Charlie study
for the S.A.T she made him realize how important school really was and he needs
to get good grades… The only way you succeed or get into a good collage in life
is if you have to put forth all your effort in high school… Knowing she was
very laid back and always just got average grades.
4.
She teaches
Charlie that sexual abuse is not right…
As Sam was sexually abused when she
was younger, she never really told anyone and when she did they did not believe
her… When she finally comes out and tells Charlie he realized how much it hurt
her and still does… Charlie finally realizes that he should never ask a girl do
things she doesn’t want to and he should never do the things that happened to
her.
5.
Sam makes Charlie
to follow his dreams.
For Christmas Patrick (Sam’s
stepbrother and Charlie’s friend) and Sam got Charlie an old fashion typewriter,
this typewriter got Charlie in to writing a lot more, as Charlie’s teacher
always made him write extra essays on books he had read and gave him feedback. Towards
the end/ middle Charlie realizes that he wants to be a writer and decides he is
good at so he’s going to follow his dreams.
