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- Perks Story BoardXavier Lemieux10/4/22
- The affects of abuse on a generation
- In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Bill explains to Charlie that the reason his sister defended the boy who hit her was because people accept the love they think they deserve. His sister knows about the abuse that has happened In their family in years passed, so she expects it to happen. The abuse throughout their family in past generation has caused the sister to expect and accept that form of “love” from the boy.
- “Charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve.” (Chbosky 24)
- On the car ride to Ohio with Charlies whole instant family, Charlies brother and sister begin arguing and things get heated fast. Charlies sister begins insulting the brothers new girlfriend, and that's when he drops this line. There are a few important pieces about him saying this, starting with the fact that he is basically saying that even though the sister is big into civil rights, she still was with the boyfriend who hit her, and forgave him for it. The other notable piece of this is that he was willing to bring this up with no care for the sensitive subject. This suggests that with their family, abuse really isn't a super sensitive subject, probably because of how much it hashappened. This quote is a great example of how abuse has become a regular topic is in their family because of how much it has happened. Setting is important here for two reasons. For one, in a car, people tend to get sick ofeach other,andthat can cause fighting as seen here. They're also on the way to Ohio to see their family where there is a long known history of abuse. This could be running through their heads which is most likely why he thought of her abuse, this causing him tobring it up.
- 'But there's another difference between you and her. You see... Kelly believes in women's rights so much that she would never let a guy hit her. I guess I can't say that about you.' (Chbosky 83)
- The main conflict in the book is not made clear until the end of the book, and that is the sexual abuse Charlie faced from his Aunt Helen when he was really young. A scene that really portrays this is when things start to get sexual between Charlie and Sam, Charlie stops and gets really upset. It is revealed later the reason he stopped: 'I can't do this anymore. I'm sorry.'...But I wasn't talking to Sam anymore, I was talking to someone else...My brother and my sister were watching television with my Aunt Helen...she was doing what Sam was doing. (Chbosky 203-204) The abuse that Charlie dealt with as a young child will forever be in his mind. He loved sam, but when they started to get intimate for the first time, all he could think aboutwas aunt Helen, and what she did to him,While what she did is wrong, its something that she didn't completely view asterrible, as it was made clear that the same thing happened to her growing up. She carried on the abuse through the generations, and it affected Charlie in a way that he can't do that anymore without thinking of what happened with his Aunt Helen.
- Charlie demonstrates an understanding of how the abuse has carried down through the generations. He doesn't defend aunt Helen, or blame someone else for what happened, but he knows that it has been going on for generations and generations eventually leading to it happening to him. Charlie admitting this truly exemplifies how his abusive bloodline ended up affecting him and his relatives.
- If I blamed my aunt Helen, I would have to blame her dad for hitting her and the friend of the family that fooled around with her when she was little. And the person who fooled around with him. (Chbosky 211)
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