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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about Charlie, Patrick, Sam entitled The Perks of Being a Wallflower.. End with the sentence '\nCharlie decides to "participate" in life, and his letter-writing ends.'.
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conversations.value: The Perks of Being a Wallflower: The story begins with a quiet, sensitive, 15-year-old boy named Charlie writing letters about his life to an unknown recipient.\nCharlie chooses that person because he said that he heard the person was nice and thought that this person would not be judgmental.\nHe discusses his first year at high school, grappling with two traumatic experiences from his past: the suicide of his only middle-school friend, Michael Scott, a year before, and the death of his favorite aunt, Helen, during his early childhood.\nHis English teacher, who encourages Charlie to call him Bill, notices Charlie\'s passion for reading and writing, and acts as a mentor by assigning him extracurricular books and reports.\nAlthough he is a wallflower, Charlie is befriended by two seniors: Patrick and Sam.\nPatrick is secretly dating Brad, a closeted football player, and Sam is Patrick\'s stepsister.\nCharlie quickly develops a crush on Sam and subsequently admits his feelings to her.\nIt is revealed that Sam was sexually abused as a child, and she kisses Charlie to ensure that his first kiss is from someone who truly loves him.\nIn parallel, Charlie witnesses his sister\'s boyfriend hit her across the face, but she forbids him from telling their parents.\nHe eventually mentions the occurrence to Bill, who tells Charlie\'s parents about it.\nCharlie\'s relationship with his sister rapidly deteriorates and she continues to see her boyfriend against her parents\' wishes.\nEventually, he discovers that his sister is pregnant and agrees to bring her to an abortion clinic without telling anyone.\nHis sister breaks up with her boyfriend, after which her and Charlie\'s relationship begins to improve significantly.\nCharlie is accepted by Sam and Patrick\'s group of friends and begins experimenting with tobacco, alcohol and other drugs.\nAt a party Charlie trips on LSD.\nHe cannot control his flashbacks of Aunt Helen, who died in a car crash on her way to buy him a birthday gift.\nHe ends up in the hospital after falling asleep in the snow.\nAt a regular Rocky Horror Picture Show performance, Charlie is asked to fill in for Sam\'s boyfriend Craig, who is unavailable.\nTheir friend Mary Elizabeth is impressed and asks Charlie to the Sadie Hawkins dance and they enter into a desultory relationship.\nThe relationship ends, however, during a game of truth or dare when Charlie is dared to kiss the prettiest girl in the room.\nHe kisses Sam, and Mary Elizabeth storms out of the room in response.\nFollowing this, Patrick suggests that Charlie stay away from Sam for a while, and the rest of the friend group shuns him.\nHis flashbacks of Aunt Helen return.\nPatrick and Brad\'s relationship is discovered by Brad\'s abusive father, and Brad disappears from school for a few days.\nUpon returning, Brad is cold and mean towards Patrick, while Patrick attempts to reconnect with him.\nHowever, when Brad derogatorily attacks Patrick\'s sexuality in public, Patrick physically attacks Brad until other football players join in and gang up on Patrick.\nCharlie joins in the fight to help Patrick, and breaks it up, regaining the respect of Sam and her friends.\nPatrick begins spending much of his time with Charlie and Patrick kisses Charlie impulsively and then apologizes, but Charlie understands that he is recovering from his romance with Brad.\nSoon Patrick sees Brad engaging with a stranger in the park and Patrick is able to move on from the relationship.\nAs the school year ends, Charlie is anxious about losing his older friends—especially Sam, who is leaving for a summer college-preparatory program and has learned that her boyfriend cheated on her.\nWhen Charlie helps her pack, they talk about his feelings for her; she is angry that he never acted on them.\nThey begin to engage sexually, but Charlie suddenly grows inexplicably uncomfortable and stops Sam.\nCharlie begins to realize that his sexual contact with Sam has stirred up repressed memories of him being molested by his Aunt Helen as a little boy.\nCharlie shows signs of PTSD from the incident and the revelation of his abuse helps the reader understand his view of relationships and love.\nIn an epilogue, Charlie is discovered by his parents in a catatonic state and does not show any movement despite being hit reluctantly by his father.\nAfter being admitted to a mental hospital, it is revealed that Helen actually sexually abused him when he was young, and his love for her (and empathy for her troubled youth) caused him to repress his traumatic memories.\nThis psychological damage explains his flashbacks and derealization phases throughout the book.\nIn two months Charlie is released, and Sam and Patrick visit him.\nIn the epilogue, Sam, Patrick and Charlie go through the tunnel again and Charlie stands up and exclaims that he felt infinite.\nHe comes to terms with his past: "Even if we don\'t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there".\nCharlie decides to "participate" in life, and his letter-writing ends.
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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about Charlie, Sam, Patrick entitled The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
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conversations.value: The Perks of Being a Wallflower (film): The film is set against the background of a young student, Charlie, who has been suffering from clinical depression from childhood setbacks and has recently been discharged from a mental health care institution to begin his adaptation to a normal lifestyle as a young high school student.\nCharlie (Logan Lerman) is uneasy about beginning his freshman year of high school; he is shy and finds difficulty in making friends, but he connects with his English teacher, mr Anderson (Paul Rudd).\nWhen he sits with two seniors, Sam (Emma Watson) and her stepbrother Patrick (Ezra Miller), at a football game, they invite him to tag along to several social activities with them.\nAt a party, Charlie unwittingly eats a cannabis brownie, gets high and discloses to Sam that the year before, his best friend committed suicide.\nHe also walks in on Patrick and Brad (Johnny Simmons), a popular athlete, kissing.\nSam realizes that Charlie has no other friends so she and Patrick make a special effort to bring Charlie into their group.\nSam needs to improve her SAT scores to be accepted to Pennsylvania State University, so Charlie offers to tutor her.\nOn the way home from the party, when the three hear a song with which they are unfamiliar, Sam instructs Patrick to drive through a tunnel so she can stand up in the back of the pickup while the music blasts.\nAt Christmas, Sam gives Charlie a vintage typewriter to help his aspirations of being a writer.\nThe two discuss relationships, and Charlie reveals he has never been kissed.\nSam, though already involved with someone else, tells Charlie she wants his first kiss to be from someone who loves him, and kisses him.\nCharlie, in love with Sam, begins to try to find ways to show her how he feels.\nAt a regular Rocky Horror Picture Show performance, Charlie is asked to fill in for Sam\'s boyfriend Craig, who is unavailable.\nTheir friend Mary Elizabeth (Mae Whitman) is impressed and asks Charlie to the Sadie Hawkins dance.\nThe two enter into a desultory relationship.\nFinally, at a party, when Charlie is dared to kiss the most beautiful girl in the room, he chooses Sam, upsetting both her and Mary Elizabeth.\nPatrick recommends Charlie stay away from the group for a while, and the isolation causes him to sink back into depression.\nHe experiences flashbacks of his Aunt Helen (Melanie Lynskey), who died in a car accident when he was seven years old.\nWhen Brad shows up at school with a black eye having been caught by his father having sex with Patrick, he lies, saying that he was jumped and beaten up.\nBrad distances himself from Patrick, calling him a "faggot".\nBrad\'s friends begin beating Patrick, but Charlie forcefully intervenes, then blacks out.\nHe recovers to find he has bruised knuckles and Brad\'s friends are on the floor, incapacitated.\nCharlie threatens, "Touch my friends again, and I\'ll blind you," then leaves.\nSam and Patrick express their gratitude to Charlie, and the three become friends again.\nSam is accepted into Penn State, and breaks up with Craig on prom night after learning he has been cheating on her.\nThe night before she departs, she brings Charlie to her room and asks him "Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we\'re nothing.\n" to which he repeats advice he received from mr Anderson, "We accept the love we think we deserve".\nThey confide in each other and kiss, but when Sam touches Charlie\'s thigh, he experiences a momentary flashback of his Aunt Helen, which he passes off as nothing, and they continue to kiss.\nAfter she leaves for college, though, his emotional state deteriorates and his flashbacks worsen.\nHe calls his sister blaming himself for Helen\'s death, and admits he may have wished it upon her.\nHis sister realizes he is in trouble and calls the police.\nCharlie passes out as they burst through the door and wakes up in a hospital, where psychiatrist dr Burton (Joan Cusack) manages to bring out Charlie\'s repressed memories of his aunt sexually abusing him.\nCharlie then is later visited by Sam and Patrick.\nSam explains what college life is like, and how she has found "The Tunnel Song" "Heroes" by David Bowie.\nThe three revisit the tunnel, where Charlie kisses Sam again and stands up in the back of the truck.\nCharlie acknowledges that he feels alive and in that moment"We are infinite".