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3.2 Rising Action
The Rising Action of the novel “the perks of being a wallflower” is begun when Charlie join to the students grade repetition club. Charlie started following all
the activities that is often performed by the club. Among them are partying, filling the performances in the Rocky Horror Show and do drugs. Charlie felt this group was
accepted him and he enjoyed this situation. Charlie often tells about other seniors who he didnt like to them, though they are also Charlie’s senior but they are never
angry to him. Charlie also returned home in a drunk condition and passed out on the snow pile ever after he wore a new type of drug. But, her parents never know it
because Charlie himself was never told it
.
“Charlie..let’s join us to the party, I will give u some new things that u never heard before..maybe..” Patrick said to Charlie. The
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In this case it can be concluded that the rising action begins to appear when Charlie join the student repetition club and he began to have problems that triggered the
emergence of a new conflict
.
3.3 Conflict
Conflict found in novel “the perks of being a wallflower” has a different conflict. The first conflict occurred when Charlie kissed Sam in front of Mary on the
game Truth or Dare while Charlie was still date Mary.
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………..Patrick suggested we all play Truth Or Dare……..Patrick give me dare
….“kiss the prettiest girl in the room on the lips”…..By the time I had knelt down in front of Sam and kiss her, the silence was
unbearable. Mary Elizabeth Walked quickly out of the room and into bathroom…………
Mary was very angry and felt hurt. She also felt that Sam has betrayed him. In fact, Sam didnt know this could happen. Sam never knew Charlie liked him. Charlie also
never tried to be honest to Mary and Sam until this incident happen.
…..Sam followed Mary, but before she completely left the room, she turned to me and said serious and dark, “what the fuck is wrong
with you?”……..
…..I felt terrible…just terrible……. After this conflict, Mary and Sam against Charlie. Charlie felt so guilty but
Patrick suggested him not return until situation calm down. Charlie was away from them for a few weeks and still feel very guilty mainly to Mary because he knows
Mary very sincerely loves him. The next conflict occurs to the main when he defended Patrick. At lunch,
several football athelete’s students mocked Patrick and called him “nothing”. Charlie felt growled. He finally does not know why he dare beat up the students who mocked
Patrick. Charlie beats them all at once. Charlie feels very strong because he feels very upset to them. Finally, Charlies parents called to school because of the incident. He
made the students entered the hospital.
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“this is the first time I dare to fight with the seniors….. but do you know, that’s only because I don’t like they called Patrick with
“nothing”. He is my bestfriend and it’s like something hurt inside. I hit them, then I saw they cry”
Patrick wrote down all the things in his letter to his friend and felt very angry at himself. he felt guilty because he had beat his senior and it will make it threatened
in schools. he feels embarrassed because he makes his parents were called to school because of his mistake.
It can be concluded that, the conflict appeared a little long almost in the middle of the story. This is because rising action take a longer part. This can be seen
from the number of pages used in telling writers the rising action. And the conflicts happen a few times so it is very pressing the mental of main character. Conflict
occurs not entirely because of the behavior of the main character but because other figures considered important in the main character’s life.
3.4 Moment Of Crisis
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