1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by: Stephen Chbosky
Allusions

2. What is an allusion, exactly?
A literary device that stimulates ideas, associations, and extra information in the reader’s mind with only a word or two.
Allusions in writing help the reader to visualize what's happening by evoking a mental picture.
The reader must be aware of the allusion and must be familiar to what it is referring.
The author includes an allusion for a significant reason. Don’t simply read past it! The allusion will most likely come back to haunt you!

3. Why are these novels important to The Perks of Being a Wallflower?
What are the connections between the novels and Charlie?
Personal connections

4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Date Published: July 11, 1960
Themes:  Southern life and racial injustice  Gender roles  Loss of innocence

5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Short Summary:  Takes place during three years ( )  At the start of the novel, Scout, the young narrator, is six years old, although everything is told in the form of a flashback. So, there is a grown-up Scout telling us about her past through the voice of a little girl.  Tom Robinson, a black man, is accused of raping a young, white woman, and Atticus Finch is appointed to defend Tom.  Scout wants to help her father, Atticus, but he does not want Scout to be present during the trial

6. Continuation:
 Despite evidence of Tom’s innocence, the jury convicts him, and he is shot and killed trying to escape from prison  Bildungsroman (18th c): novel of education that follows the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist

7. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Date Published: 1920
Themes:  Love warped by greed  Love warped by status seeking

8. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Short Summary:  Divided into three parts : Book One, Interlude, Book Two  The lives of post-World War I youth  Protagonist Amory Blaine is a student at Princeton University and serves in the army in WWI  After the war, Amory falls in love with a New York socialite named Rosalind Connage. Their relationship cannot last because he is poor  Novel ends with the famous statement, “I know myself, but that is all”