"But I don't mind going at all because my Aunt Helen is buried there. My mom was always the pretty one, as they say, and my Aunt Helen was always the other one. The nice thing was my Aunt Helen was never on a diet. And my Aunt Helen was "corpulent.""(chbosky p.16) Aunt Helen is probably one of the most important if not, the most important person in Charlie's life. He has a lot of fond memories of her like how she was the only one who would give him a birthday and Christmas present (because the two were only one day apart,) or staying up late watching SNL when his parents were out getting drunk with friends. The way Charlie talks about her really shows that the two had a special bond. Of course when she died it made him go mental for a while and he ended up being held back a grade and by the end of the book you find out that she actually had a lot more to do with the way Charlie is than anyone originally thought.
"Because I was standing in the tunnel. And I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite."(chbosky p.213) This quote shows what I consider an important mood in the book. Charlie's just a kid who has a lot of emotions and a pretty normal life. All he's ever looking for is to find that perfect feeling, a kind of peaceful but still amazing and exciting feeling because so much of his life he feels panicked or confused. I think Charlie is a pretty peaceful but exciting and eccentric character so I guess I'm saying that those three sentences really sum up a lot of who he is.
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