Theoretical Framework REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

22 himself as well as the death of his favorite Aunt Helen. Charlie perceives that Aunt Helen’s death is his fault since she gets in an accident for buying Charlie a birthday present. Charlie has an older brother and an older sister. His brother leaves to Penn State to play football. His sister dates an abusive boyfriend. Charlie witness his sister’s boyfriend hits her on the face but he is not allowed to tell their parents. During Charlie’s first year of high school, his English teacher recognizes Charlie’s talent for reading and writing. He gives Charlie’s a lot of novels to be read and eventually gets closer to Charlie. Although he is a wallflower, Charlie makes friend with two seniors, Sam and Patrick. Patrick is a homosexual and Sam is Patrick’s stepsister. Despite of they are being senior, they accept Charlie and their bond gets stronger. Charlie develops a crush on Sam and ad mits his feeling to her. Patrick mentions Charlie as a wallflower as he does not participate and thinks too much. In school dance nights, Charlie stands at the back and watches people dancing instead of becoming one. As Charlie gets close with Sam and Patr ick’s friends, he begins smoking, drinking alcohol and using drugs. As the school year ends, Charlie is anxious for losing his friends since Sam and Patrick graduates and will leave for College soon. One night before Sam leaves for College on the next morning, Charlie and Sam begin to engage sexually but stop since Charlie feels uncomfortable. Charlie realizes his memories of being molested by his favorite aunt Helen when is a child. Charlie feels numb and is taken to a mental hospital for two months treatment. When Charlie is released, 23 Sam and Patrick pay him a visit. They drive together through a tunnel, Charlie stands up and he feels infinite.

B. Approach of the Study

The approach used in this study is psychological approach considering that the aim of the study is to find out the true meaning of wallflower as seen in Charlie’s character. According to Rohrgeber and Woods 1971, psychological approach portrays knowledge which includes human motivation, mind, imagination, thought and behaviour. By using this approach, the character’s thought and personality can be analyzed. In this study, psychological approach is applied to answer the problem formulation by analyzing the character of Charlie as a wallflower and finding the true meaning of wallflower.

C. Method of the Study

This study belongs to library research. According to George 2008 the method of library research are identifying and locating sources that provides factual information or expert opinion. There were two kinds of sources used by the researcher which were primary source and secondary source. In this study, the researcher used Stephen Chbosky’s work entitled The Perks of Being a Wallflower as the primary source. The secondary sources were info rmation from internet, journals, articles or books that were related to the study to be used in PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI