Charlie's Repression - Exploring the behavior of Charlie in The Perks of Being a Wallflower DOCX

Title	Charlie's Repression - Exploring the behavior of Charlie in The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Author	Alvaro Candia Vera
Pages	22
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Candia 1 Alvaro Candia Vera Professor Juan Pablo Vilches LET1367—Research in Literature 5 June 2018 Charlie’s Repression: Exploring the behavior of Charlie in The Perks of Being a Wallflower As trauma presents itself as an event that occurred too fast for the brain to understand it as a whole, many ...

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Candia 1 Alvaro Candia Vera Professor Juan Pablo Vilches LET1367—Research in Literature 5 June 2018 Charlie's Repression: Exploring the behavior of Charlie in The Perks of Being a Wallflower As trauma presents itself as an event that occurred too fast for the brain to understand it as a whole, many victims are haunted by the presence of it, without noticing that it is still there (Freud 147). As it is an unconscious memory, it is important for the victims to be aware of the haunting of the presence. For this, speaking about the trauma is an important process when it comes to working through it (Brison 42), as it helps the victims to regain control of their own identities, that they once lost after the traumatic event. A trauma does not only come with the diffusion of oneself, but also carries physical manifestations that can be harmful for the victims (Callard and Papoulias 247), especially children, as they have not experienced the process in which they develop their own identity. This also carries a series of acts of repetition of the trauma (Freud 151), which directly affects the correct development of adolescents. In this paper, I will be working how sexual abuse interferes with the healthy sexual development of teenagers, and how they try to understand what happened through other harmful methods as the previously mentioned. For this, I will be working with Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower, focusing on the character of Charlie, a boy who was sexually abused by his aunt in his early childhood. Throughout the novel, Charlie exposes himself to similar situations, but does not speak or realizes about it, he detaches his aunt from the guilt, justifying her behavior. I propose that because Charlie does not identify her aunt as the victimizer of his trauma, he does not work through it; therefore elucidating the impression that he unconsciously exposes himself to similar situations so as to...