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When Charlie met Lennie

In “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” the main character, Charlie is described as clueless, compassionate, and is always leaning on someone else for help(for example Sam.) When I think of those traits, the first character I think of, from a movie is Lennie from “Of Mice and Men.” Lennie basically has the same main characteristics as Charlie. Although he stories are nothing alike.
In “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” we have Charlie, a sixteen year old high schooler telling a story about his life in a journal, and how he survived in high school. We learn about Charlie’s family and the tragic death of his Aunt Helen and his best friend, and how Charlie copes with that. He has older siblings, who he is not really close with; but he still loves them, and wants whats best for them. Charlie is described as smart-in school, but in life he is not so smart. He is also naive, trusting(not always good,) scrawny, and short.
In “Of Mice and Men” Lennie is accompanied by his best friend George, who takes responsibility of Lennie. When Lennie made a big mistake, Lennie and George had to run away; and find a new job at a farm. We see how Lennie adapts to a new place and how George is willing to do anything to protect Lennie. Lennie is shown as big, heavyset, and slow-could be considered retarded, and trusting.
Lennie and Charlie both find themselves in trouble by being too trusting of others.  I found myself feeling bad for them, because they don’t know any better.

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I think a book must be 100% true to be considered nonfiction. If it is 95% true, you won’t help wondering what is the 5% that aren’t true; and will doubt a lot of stuff that occurred in the book. A book can be fiction, but can be based on true facts; just because it has some true aspects does not mean it should be nonfiction. Half-truths are not ok if it’s a good story and it isn’t right that Frey and Mortensen bent the truth to tell their stories, but sadly it is inevitable. In a memoir, you learn to trust the author; and when he/she lies you feel backstabbed, because in a memoir you are more vulnerable to become attached to the story, and think with the mentality that “this happened to someone, it could happen to me.” Although sometimes people become too attached to the book, people should also learn to take a step back and see that it is a book after all. The authors are probably thinking if I make this part a little bit interesting, then the book would be better.

When confronted about if the authors “stretched the truth” they should not lie, and own up to how it was a detail, that they thought wouldn’t change how people look at the book. That is the part that I don’t like, when the author lies; just so they can make more money. We should label fiction or nonfiction, because if it is labeled fiction, we can assume that it isn’t true; and if its’ labeled nonfiction we assume that it is true.