all the wild things yet fun that he never felt before as an introvert. He became a normal teenager because of Patrick and Sam. In the end of the story, it stated about
the reason why Charlie does not hanging out with the other students and how Charlie overcome his past with telling the truth to his family and became more open about his
situation. He finally can let go all of his problems in the past and ready to face the future. The novel is talks about friendship, love, and family that its matter.
B. Approach of the Study
The Approach that writer use to analyze this study is New Criticism. Bressler stated
that New Criticism in literary work is an organizer of the human experience‟s content and it is sometime confusing and contradictory experience of life, it stirs
readers‟ emotions and makes its readers to reflect literary content 1999:43. He also states the elements of the literary works are important because they have the
interrelation and interconnection to the work 1999:44. The study itself focuses on the characters, Charlie and his friends. From
how the character of them, especially Charlie as the major character until the contribution of the minor character to Charlie‟s character development. They help
Charlie to become a better person.
C. Method of the Study
To analyze this study, the writer did library research in order to find the related theories to elaborate this study. The primary data of this study is the novel
itself. The secondary data is the related theory, which is theory of characterization and theory of character development.
The first step was reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower from the beginning until the end. Then the writer noted some points that are important to the
study, for example highlight the name of characters, important events in the story, the climax of the story, and the ending. After that, the writer described the characteristic
of the major and the minor characters, then the writer tried to seeing the different between major and minor character. The next step was elaborated the contribution of
the minor characte rs on Charlie‟s character development used related theory. For the
first problem formulation, the writer described the character of Charlie, the major character and the minor characters using the related theory. The writer analyzed
through their speech, direct comment, personal description, and so on. The writer found that Charlie had more than five characters. On the other hand, the minor
character had more than one character. After finding the entire characteristic of major and minor characters in the novel, the writer analyzed the second problem, which is
the contribution of the minor characters to major character development. In the final step, the writer made the conclusion about the study.
