Approach of the Study
his family. He also never makes troubles. There are several characteristics that the researcher finds in Charlie.
The first characteristic of Charlie is quiet. Charlie is not the type of boy who is active or talkative. His only best friend is Michael who dies because of
suicide. After Michael dies, he becomes calmer. He never plays outside with the other kids and he spends all his time at home, reading books. In his letters, Charlie
never talks about his interaction with other friends besides Michael. In his high school he meets Sam and Patrick, his seniors at school. He never talks to anybody
since day one in high school but when he sees Patrick and Sam in a football game, he tries to talk to him. Thus, they become friends. He also meets some of Patrick’s
friends. Charlie, then, only interacts with Sam, Patrick, Bob, and Mary Elizabeth. Even though Charlie has finally had friends, he remains quiet. One of his friends,
Patrick even says that Charlie is really something. Hes a wallflower. And Bob really nodded his head. And the whole room
nodded their head. And I started to feel nervous in the Bob way, but Patrick didn’t let me get too nervous. He sat down next to me. “You see
things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.” p.47 In one party, Patrick and Sam invite Charlie to come. It is the first time
Charlie goes to a party. He gets drunk because of the brownies contained with drugs which are given by Bob. In that Party, Patrick and the other friends realize
that Charlie is a very calm person. Patrick states it by using the word “wallflower” that indicate a person who is quiet. This quiet characteristic is described by
Charlie himself and what Patrick says. In the method of characterizing the character, the researcher finds out that Charlie’s quiet characteristic is described
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The second characteristic of Charlie is introvert. In Merriam-Webster, the definition of “introvert” is a shy person: a quiet person who does not find it easy
to talk to other people. Charlie’s closest friends among others are just Sam and Patrick. Through the novel, Charlie is seen as a boy who has difficulty in making
friends. He never writes about his experiences with any other friends and also never plays far away with his friends. His activities at home are just reading books
and listening to music. He does not socialize with his neighbors or his old friends. Charlie’s older sister is not close to him. She has different characteristics than
Charlie, that is why she always thinks that Charlie is a freak boy. Youre a freak, you know that? Youve always been a freak. Everyone
says so. They always have. Im trying not to be. Then, I turned around and walked to my room and
closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be. p.34
Since Charlie was a kid, he always gets straight A in his school. This makes he thinks that people leave him alone because he always gets straight A.
The fact that Charlie always gets A in school and never plays with other friends describe that Charlie is an introvert because he spend his time in his room to read
books and not playing outside. Thus, Charlie can easily get A in school. The researcher also finds that Charlie chooses to write his story’s life in
the series of letter instead of having telling his life with other people. This fact shows that Charlie is an introvert person because he tends to spend his time
writing about the story of his life and also reading books. There is a time when Charlie says that he likes reading books twice. “I dont have a lot of time because
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