b. Emotional
Chbosky mentions it few times about Charlie being emotional. He stated that Charlie could not control his emotion. Charlie shows his feeling with crying or
screaming hardly. It started when he finds out that his close friend in the middle school named Michael died.
I do not really remember much of what happened after that except that my older brother came to Mr. Vaughn‟s office in my middle school and told me to
stop crying. The he put his arm on my shoulder and told me to get it out of my system before Dad came home Chbosky, 1999:3.
It continues when his school asks him some questions about Michael, he is crying really hard.
I was crying still. I never did stop crying Chbosky, 1999:4. Then Charlie shows his emotional side when he punches Sean as his defense, because
Sean keeps bully him. He is crying again. Actually, it is not making any sense since the one that getting hurt more is Sean but Charlie might cry because he could not
express his anger well. He turns his anger into sadness. He also likes to scream out of nowhere and he says that he is crying or
screaming when he is emotional. Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I do not decorated my
locker, and I am the one who beat up Sean and could not stop crying after he did it. I guess I am pretty emotional Chbosky, 1999:8.
c. Pedantic
Another characteristic of Charlie that the writer found is pedantic. He had so many thoughts even over small things. The author described it through direct
comment that Billy made to Charlie. “Do you always think this much, Charlie?”
“Is that bad?” “Not necessarily. It is just that sometimes people use thought to not participate
in life.” “Is that bad?”
“Yes” Chbosky, 1999:24. Bill curious after Charlie tells his concern about the girl that he likes to him. Charlie
is too scared that he might not be able to confess his feeling to the girl he likes. He keeps think that he does not have any good point and he scared that his feeling might
break their friendship.
d. Passionate in Writing
Bill gives his students task to read a book that he choose. The first book is To Kill a Mockingbird
. Actually, Bill only wants his students to read it, but after see Charlie‟s ability in reading and understanding the language, he asks Charlie to make
an essay. My advanced English teacher asked me to call him “Bill” when we are not in
class, and he gave me another book to read. He says that I have a great skill at reading and understanding language, and he wanted me to write an essay
about To Kill a Mockingbird Chbosky, 1999:10.
He seems satisfied with Charlie work. Bill gives Charlie more books to analyze. Bill gave my first B in advanced English class for my paper on Peter Pan...
He told me that my sense of language is improving along with my sentence structure Chbosky, 1999:46.
Charlie first score for To Kill a Mockingbird ’s essay is C, but it does not make
him give up. As Bill keeps giving him book, Charlie improves his writing skill. I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just do not know
what I would write Chbosky, 1999:46. The writer found Charlie had passion in writing from the events above. He
even likes every book that Bill gave to him. I
am starting to see a trend in the kind of books Bills gives me to read…. They are all my favorites. All of them Chbosky, 1999:63.
e. Wallflower
The reason why Charlie nickname is wallflower is because since he is a kid, Charlie sees so many things that are consider as secret because some of them are
quite embarrassing. Everyone around him even was making Charlie to do not spill the tea to other people. One of the examples is
when his father crying over his aunt‟s death. Charlie witnessed his father crying like a baby. Since his father normally is not
a crybaby in front of his family, his father did not want him to tell everyone in the family that he is crying like that.
Charlie discovers that Patrick is a gay because he spots Patrick is kissing a boy in his bedroom.
“Brad does not want people to know.” “Why?”
“Because he is scared.” ……
“Listen, Charlie. Brad does not want people to know. I need you to promise that you will not
tell anyone. This will be our little secret. Okay?” “Okay?”
“Thanks” Chbosky, 1999:35-36.
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