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perks of being a wallflower
i just finished the book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
and i really loved it, it was an amazing book
however, i'm a bit confused on the end
Was Charlie crazy? And is that why he ended up being in a hospital for 2 months?
And did his aunt Helen molest him?
If anyone could clear up the ending that would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
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Hey there, I loved that book too.
Yes, Aunt Helen did molest Charlie. I think that when Charlie was little he tried to put it at the back of his mind so much that he forgot about it. That's why he freaks out when things get sexual with Sam. That makes him remember what happened. So basically he didn't deal with the trauma of it at the time (when he was little)- it was all bottled up and then all of a sudden he went over the edge when he started to remember. He wasn't crazy- he just had a little lapse when he was trying to come to terms with what Aunt Helen had done. Besides that, his family never knew about it and they never really told him what had happened to Aunt Helen herself. That really messed him up because he had loved Aunt Helen so much, yet his memory of her had become marred because of what he ended up remembering. In the book he says that he spent two months in the same hospital that he was in after Aunt Helen died- so when she died that messed him up too because he had loved her so much.
That's about all I can get from the ending- it's such a great book. And it's weird to think that you feel like you know so much about this kid named Charlie, yet that's not even his real name and it never says what his real name is in the book.
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