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. 15

CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS

In this chapter, the writer tries to answer the problem formulation. First, the writer discusses about the characters in the novel. There are two types of character in the book, major and minor character. For this study, only one major and some minor characters that will be discussed. The major character is Charlie; meanwhile the minor characters are Patrick, Sam, Bill, and Mary Elizabeth. Second, the writer discusses the contribution of the minor characters to major character development. Then for the final, the writer makes the conclusion of the study. A. The Depiction of the Characters in The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1. The Characteristics of Charlie In this part, the writer tries to analyze the first problem formulation, which is how the characters depicted in the novel. According to Murphy there are nine steps on how the author describes the characters such as speech, past life, direct comment, personal description, conversation of others, thoughts, character as seen by another, reactions, and mannerism 1972:16. Since the characters divided into two types, the major and minor character, the writer will discuss the major character first, Charlie. The writer used speech, past life, direct comment, conversation of others, thoughts, character as seen by another, reactions and mannerism.