Before picking up the book, I was unaware of the fact that the novel is written in letters. The first letter introduces the story’s protagonist, Charlie, and the best way to describe him is over-emotional and sensitive and maybe a little naive. He says that he’s a weird kid and that maybe the reason he’s so shut in and absent in society is because of his best friend, Michael's, suicide in middle school. Charlie says that he’s starting high school at the end of the letter and says that he’s afraid. To me, Charlie is a very relatable character especially considering how I was at the beginning of my Freshman year. In his next letter, Charlie says that he does not like high school. He talks about how different everyone is compared to how