Outside Reading Blog #3

For my third and final blog on my outside reading, I though I would discuss my favorite quote. Not only does it demonstrate how much of the book is written, it shows how in such simple writing (as I've mentioned prior) can still form complex ideas.

"Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs. I wonder how they feel tonight."

This is my favorite concept of the whole book. Although this barely has any relation to the theme of PBW, it is a concept I can relate to a lot. The thoughts that Charlie has on a daily basis are ones that I too think, and a thought like this is a great example of my own imagination. I think I'm so intrigued by Charlie's small yet insightful thoughts such as this one because I have always thought that I was the only one who had those ideas in my head. Even if Charlie isn't a real character, Chbosky created Charlie to have those cognitive patterns, and to know that Chbosky at least has thought like I do is very interesting.

I always think of these small scenarios. I look at chairs and think about all of the people before me who sat in them, or as I sit in my dorm, what other people have lived here before me and called it home? And where are those people? Do I know them? Have they grown and become successful?

I think about every object I touch, and who else may have interacted with my own items, whether it was intentional or not. Whenever I hold my textbooks or drive on the highway and see the people passing me, I wonder how many of the others unknowingly involved think in this way too. That concept alone is something that always draws me back to Charlie's character and PBW in general.

- Emily Schulz -