I wrote my blog post in a Microsoft Document, and I am not able to copy and paste it. This will allow me to post because copy/paste is allowed in the comment section. Sorry for the technical difficulties. Thanks! -Keely
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Novel by Stephen Chbosky Keely Corrigan Pages- 98/213
Attracted to simple design of the green cover, I began this book with an open mind; but as I began to turn pages, my eyebrows progressively traveled up my forehead, eventually taking residence just below my hairline. The CONTENT! For such a plainly adored book, one would not dare to think it would include such an array of questionable (to say the least!) themes. The slim volume is able to touch on drugs, death, dysfunctional families, sex, homosexuality, peer acceptance, the meaning of intelligence, and the feeling of “infinity.” I suspect when upon reading this list- you ran out of breath: Eight topics, one novel, and one very exasperated reader.
To be able to take all those umbrella topics and weave them into one passionately written novel is a triumph. I like this novel, in the way that one likes water running down a parched throat. Refreshing, the main characters words are as plain as the cover. Intimate, I read with a sensation similar to the moment when one says to someone else, “I want to tell you a secret.” Inclusive, Chbosky writes the novel as letters (with sporadic moments of second person amidst a dominantly first person book). Charlie, the protagonist, is writing letters to an anonymous reader; he only entitles the reader of the letters to be, “Dear friend.” I like to imagine that he is writing to me, as if his words were for my eyes only. Chbosky’s writing has entertained millions- yet he manages to make me feel special.
While driving through a tunnel with his friends, Charlie’s favorite song comes dancing through the car speakers, and they emerge: to a glorious city skyline. Charlie says, “I feel infinite.” What is the consciousness of infinity? Is infinity the moment when a person opens her arms to the world, and embraces? Is it a moment of bliss, and un-duplicable moment of metaphorical sunshine? Is it the moment of translucent enlightenment- when ones soul is a leaf backlit against a rising sun? Is “infinite” just a moment from which a permanent memory is born? I felt infinity rolling down the grassed hills with you, Jessie, in the summer of 2009. Wet blades against our cheeks, we laughed and laughed as the jealous office workers peered through their business windows at us. I feel infinity every time I hear Noah and the Whale’s, Five Years Time and Band of Skulls’, I Know What I Am. All four of us: Janine, Ruby, you, and I; perused down the streets of Lake Grove sharing headphones with said songs playing into our ears. Through our smiles, our laughs, the memories- we became infinite.
PS. Google and IMDb have informed me that this novel is going to be made into a film. Emma Watson will play Sam and Logan Lerman will star as Charlie. I’m not sure how I feel about Emma Watson playing Sam; I always imagined Sam to be more edgy. (I also imagined her as a redhead, but I am sure there is not textual evidence to support my perception.) I just wanted to let you know.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Novel by Stephen Chbosky Jessica Pollard Pages- 111/213
For fifteen minutes, I have been sitting here, wasting my Friday night away in front of a computer screen because I don’t want to explain this in the wrong way. I want you to understand the significance of Asleep by The Smiths, and I don’t want to give anyone the wrong impression about Charlie because even after a few more than one hundred pages, he feels like a close friend, and goodness knows I wouldn’t at all want to ruin that. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is just so beautifully complex and yet so simply orchestrated, its hard for me to find the right words to say without sounding dull. Chbosky has created one of the, nay THE (sorry, italics are broken) most beautiful character I have ever read about and gotten to know: Charlie. He is so sweet and gentle- impossible to not love. But somehow, through all his simplicity, he has a grasp on philosophy that many adults would envy. Charlie has this deep sense of knowledge that I crave, and reading this book is sort of becoming a life changing experience. Maybe I’m being a little biased when I say I can’t think of a single fault inside this book’s pages, but I really, really like it. When Charlie explained his ‘infinite’ feeling, I just about cried. I know that feeling- Keely knows it too. It’s that moment where nothing matters, and yet everything matters… seeing it on paper opened my eyes. I also love the way Charlie writes the way a person talks. I love the way that he has become so very real to me, and the way he is so respectful towards his new friend Sam, even though he is extremely fond of her. I love the way he doesn’t think twice about his friend Patrick’s homosexuality. He doesn’t criticize anyone; he just tries so hard to understand. This book is sad. It’s distant. It’s happy. It’s close. I think the best word for it so far though is beautiful. And that’s because I’m a dramatic writer with no thesaurus. I really wish I could more eloquently describe why I like it so much, but I really can’t…
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Novel by Stephen Chbosky Jessica Pollard Pages- 166/213
Laced with intriguing philosophy, insightful situations, and enticing ideas, I thought that Steven Chbosky had created a seamless masterpiece free of errors. Don’t get me wrong, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is diffidently one of the best books I’ve ever read so far, and I love it dearly, but I realized something: The characters can be completely unrealistic, especially the central protagonist Charlie. I love Charlie to death, and it broke my heart a little bit to realize that people like him don’t really seem to exist in the world today. How often does one come across a person that is ALWAYS trying to do the right thing? Charlie is so polite and so sensitive towards others; it can become a bit hard to believe. Like anyone, he does get angry- but afterwards, he is sure to apologize to anyone he’s hurt. His intentions are so pure; it makes me feel like a terrible person in comparison. The fact that Charlie isn’t very realistic can also tend to make the book’s situations a little unrealistic (unrealistic, but still quite captivating). For example, when Charlie meets two of his best friends (Patrick and Sam) for the first time, he simply walks up to them at a football game and sits down. From there, the friendships bloom into strong emotional ties rather quickly- a little too quickly. I don’t know about anyone else, but my best friendships definitely did not happen over a span of a couple months. Still, so far, the book is absolutely fantastic. I’d recommend it to just about anyone who enjoys pondering the whims of life.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Novel by Stephen Chbosky Keely Corrigan Pages- 183/213
As the novel progresses, these blog posts are becoming more difficult to write. This book is so personal and affecting. I feel as though the blog posts are like me voicing my opinion about my best friend’s diary. There is a part of me that refuses to break the trust. I hold this book and begin to cry; Charlie goes through so much, yet he retains his sense of truth and honest human compassion. How can he continue to live the way he does, so kind and considerate: so optimistic about life even when he is punched in the face with misfortune? He witnesses rape, multiple cases of domestic violence, death of a loved one, discrimination, child abuse; and yet he moves through it. This boy is a model human being, possessing traits and attributes that make him the kind of person that one remembers years later, even if the interaction is brief and arbitrary. We need all need a Charlie in our lives.
Why haven’t I met a Charlie in my life? Jessie has brought up an excellent point that the protagonist really is not realistic. After reading the first 30 pages I wondered if something was neurologically wrong with him. After 100 pages I knew that he was not quite right. My suspicion was confirmed when Charlie wrote that he had seen his psychiatrist and he had been diagnosed. Did he tell us what he was diagnosed with? OF COURSE NOT. While this trick is fabulous writing, it is undeniably annoying. I am sure he will tell us what he has before the final page, but as an impatient as I am- I would prefer he had told me 20 pages ago. But while reading this book, I forget that is a book. It’s just a letter my good friend wrote to me, and he tells me everything. Moving, affecting, emotional: I love this book.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Novel by Stephen Chbosky Keely Corrigan Pages- 213/213 How is it that a piece of literature can be so deeply affecting; yet, leave the affected with little to say? This novel leaves me- as close as I can get to- speechless.
Charlie’s farewell wishes for the reader are those for a happy life; he says that we deserve it. I found my eyes pausing over this line, hovering, staring at the ink. After a while of pondering my mind asked me, “Do you deserve a happy life?” I don’t know if I can answer this. This question is the ‘moral of the story’ for this novel. Can you, regardless of all the misfortunes, missed opportunities, mistakes, live a happy life? Does every human being deserve the ability to overcome adversity as Charlie does in the book?
I feel as though my blog posts are becoming redundant because of my fascination with the certain theme of the book that allows Charlie to be a dynamic character, the choice of happiness. Charlie chooses to put others first and he finds happiness from allowing others to act as they wish in order to enable their happiness. He is reprimanded for this in the end of the novel by the woman he sought to enable happiness for throughout the entire novel. Sam tells him that he cannot simply be the shoulder for others to cry on, but the arms as well. She demands that he enable his own happiness, and live his life for himself. I disagree with this because it is Charlie’s sweet and nurturing nature that I find engrossing, and what builds this books importance to society in my mind. Charlie is a dynamic character (his knowledge of the ways of the world expand and he is able to cope with the loss of his extremely close aunt much better), but in other ways he is not. He is not dynamic in that his intentions for others never change; he thinks only of the others happiness, and for this he is an incredible.
The last couple dozen pages of this novel are bittersweet and joyfully heartbreaking. Though his friends graduate and he is left alone; I was left with the wonderfully sweet flavor of hope. His ability to overcome is joyful, yet the fact that the last page is done and through, to me, is devastatingly heartbreaking. I feel as though this is the type of ground shaking novel that one reads over and over again just to feel the emotion and sense of inner wholeness and outer connection that he or she initially feels. I know I will.
Review of Perks of Being a Wallflower Novel by Stephen Chbosky Keely Corrigan Pages- 213/213
Do not embark upon this incredibly personal and affecting book if you fear involvement. This is not the type of book that one can read passively; Charlie (the protagonist) deserves much more.
This novel grabs ones heart, whispers into ones ears intelligent prose that tickle ones brain, and challenges previous perceptions of life. Moments in this book are so emotional and raw, it seems impossible for them to be fiction. Charlie points out the miniscule details that make up the world that we pass by without a second look. Charlie analyzes human behavior, thought, and culture without coming off as rehearsed/educated, as if all that he says comes straight from his thoughts not someone else’s.
The tempo of the book is fun to read, with a moment of drama, then a moment of intellectual discussion, then another event of plot movement. The heartbeat-like tempo makes this book hard to put down. Once you begin this book, you are in. The expression, “once you are in, you’re in” should be written in bold letters on the cover. Which Jessie is correct about: it is definitely “Simple and enticing, honest and interpretable.”
Reality is not a strong suit in this novel, but does give it strength in a weird, nonsensical way. This book is not realistic, but it provides an escape: an escape from the harsh world of ours that is filled with isolated, selfish individuals to a place where people actually care about the other human beings around them. It doesn’t matter that the book couldn’t happen in real life; the point is simply that it happens. This world is available to everyone through this incredible, unforgettable modern classic.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
ReplyDeleteNovel by Stephen Chbosky
Keely Corrigan
Pages- 98/213
Attracted to simple design of the green cover, I began this book with an open mind; but as I began to turn pages, my eyebrows progressively traveled up my forehead, eventually taking residence just below my hairline. The CONTENT! For such a plainly adored book, one would not dare to think it would include such an array of questionable (to say the least!) themes. The slim volume is able to touch on drugs, death, dysfunctional families, sex, homosexuality, peer acceptance, the meaning of intelligence, and the feeling of “infinity.” I suspect when upon reading this list- you ran out of breath: Eight topics, one novel, and one very exasperated reader.
To be able to take all those umbrella topics and weave them into one passionately written novel is a triumph. I like this novel, in the way that one likes water running down a parched throat. Refreshing, the main characters words are as plain as the cover. Intimate, I read with a sensation similar to the moment when one says to someone else, “I want to tell you a secret.” Inclusive, Chbosky writes the novel as letters (with sporadic moments of second person amidst a dominantly first person book). Charlie, the protagonist, is writing letters to an anonymous reader; he only entitles the reader of the letters to be, “Dear friend.” I like to imagine that he is writing to me, as if his words were for my eyes only. Chbosky’s writing has entertained millions- yet he manages to make me feel special.
While driving through a tunnel with his friends, Charlie’s favorite song comes dancing through the car speakers, and they emerge: to a glorious city skyline. Charlie says, “I feel infinite.” What is the consciousness of infinity? Is infinity the moment when a person opens her arms to the world, and embraces? Is it a moment of bliss, and un-duplicable moment of metaphorical sunshine? Is it the moment of translucent enlightenment- when ones soul is a leaf backlit against a rising sun? Is “infinite” just a moment from which a permanent memory is born? I felt infinity rolling down the grassed hills with you, Jessie, in the summer of 2009. Wet blades against our cheeks, we laughed and laughed as the jealous office workers peered through their business windows at us. I feel infinity every time I hear Noah and the Whale’s, Five Years Time and Band of Skulls’, I Know What I Am. All four of us: Janine, Ruby, you, and I; perused down the streets of Lake Grove sharing headphones with said songs playing into our ears. Through our smiles, our laughs, the memories- we became infinite.
PS. Google and IMDb have informed me that this novel is going to be made into a film. Emma Watson will play Sam and Logan Lerman will star as Charlie. I’m not sure how I feel about Emma Watson playing Sam; I always imagined Sam to be more edgy. (I also imagined her as a redhead, but I am sure there is not textual evidence to support my perception.) I just wanted to let you know.
:D that was fun! You already said everything I was going to say.... I'll have to think of something else!
ReplyDeleteThe Perks of Being a Wallflower
ReplyDeleteNovel by Stephen Chbosky
Jessica Pollard
Pages- 111/213
For fifteen minutes, I have been sitting here, wasting my Friday night away in front of a computer screen because I don’t want to explain this in the wrong way. I want you to understand the significance of Asleep by The Smiths, and I don’t want to give anyone the wrong impression about Charlie because even after a few more than one hundred pages, he feels like a close friend, and goodness knows I wouldn’t at all want to ruin that.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is just so beautifully complex and yet so simply orchestrated, its hard for me to find the right words to say without sounding dull. Chbosky has created one of the, nay THE (sorry, italics are broken) most beautiful character I have ever read about and gotten to know: Charlie. He is so sweet and gentle- impossible to not love. But somehow, through all his simplicity, he has a grasp on philosophy that many adults would envy. Charlie has this deep sense of knowledge that I crave, and reading this book is sort of becoming a life changing experience.
Maybe I’m being a little biased when I say I can’t think of a single fault inside this book’s pages, but I really, really like it. When Charlie explained his ‘infinite’ feeling, I just about cried. I know that feeling- Keely knows it too. It’s that moment where nothing matters, and yet everything matters… seeing it on paper opened my eyes. I also love the way Charlie writes the way a person talks. I love the way that he has become so very real to me, and the way he is so respectful towards his new friend Sam, even though he is extremely fond of her. I love the way he doesn’t think twice about his friend Patrick’s homosexuality. He doesn’t criticize anyone; he just tries so hard to understand.
This book is sad. It’s distant. It’s happy. It’s close. I think the best word for it so far though is beautiful. And that’s because I’m a dramatic writer with no thesaurus. I really wish I could more eloquently describe why I like it so much, but I really can’t…
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
ReplyDeleteNovel by Stephen Chbosky
Jessica Pollard
Pages- 166/213
Laced with intriguing philosophy, insightful situations, and enticing ideas, I thought that Steven Chbosky had created a seamless masterpiece free of errors. Don’t get me wrong, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is diffidently one of the best books I’ve ever read so far, and I love it dearly, but I realized something: The characters can be completely unrealistic, especially the central protagonist Charlie. I love Charlie to death, and it broke my heart a little bit to realize that people like him don’t really seem to exist in the world today.
How often does one come across a person that is ALWAYS trying to do the right thing? Charlie is so polite and so sensitive towards others; it can become a bit hard to believe. Like anyone, he does get angry- but afterwards, he is sure to apologize to anyone he’s hurt. His intentions are so pure; it makes me feel like a terrible person in comparison.
The fact that Charlie isn’t very realistic can also tend to make the book’s situations a little unrealistic (unrealistic, but still quite captivating). For example, when Charlie meets two of his best friends (Patrick and Sam) for the first time, he simply walks up to them at a football game and sits down. From there, the friendships bloom into strong emotional ties rather quickly- a little too quickly. I don’t know about anyone else, but my best friendships definitely did not happen over a span of a couple months.
Still, so far, the book is absolutely fantastic. I’d recommend it to just about anyone who enjoys pondering the whims of life.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
ReplyDeleteNovel by Stephen Chbosky
Keely Corrigan
Pages- 183/213
As the novel progresses, these blog posts are becoming more difficult to write. This book is so personal and affecting. I feel as though the blog posts are like me voicing my opinion about my best friend’s diary. There is a part of me that refuses to break the trust. I hold this book and begin to cry; Charlie goes through so much, yet he retains his sense of truth and honest human compassion. How can he continue to live the way he does, so kind and considerate: so optimistic about life even when he is punched in the face with misfortune? He witnesses rape, multiple cases of domestic violence, death of a loved one, discrimination, child abuse; and yet he moves through it. This boy is a model human being, possessing traits and attributes that make him the kind of person that one remembers years later, even if the interaction is brief and arbitrary. We need all need a Charlie in our lives.
Why haven’t I met a Charlie in my life? Jessie has brought up an excellent point that the protagonist really is not realistic. After reading the first 30 pages I wondered if something was neurologically wrong with him. After 100 pages I knew that he was not quite right. My suspicion was confirmed when Charlie wrote that he had seen his psychiatrist and he had been diagnosed. Did he tell us what he was diagnosed with? OF COURSE NOT. While this trick is fabulous writing, it is undeniably annoying. I am sure he will tell us what he has before the final page, but as an impatient as I am- I would prefer he had told me 20 pages ago. But while reading this book, I forget that is a book. It’s just a letter my good friend wrote to me, and he tells me everything. Moving, affecting, emotional: I love this book.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
ReplyDeleteNovel by Stephen Chbosky
Keely Corrigan
Pages- 213/213
How is it that a piece of literature can be so deeply affecting; yet, leave the affected with little to say? This novel leaves me- as close as I can get to- speechless.
Charlie’s farewell wishes for the reader are those for a happy life; he says that we deserve it. I found my eyes pausing over this line, hovering, staring at the ink. After a while of pondering my mind asked me, “Do you deserve a happy life?” I don’t know if I can answer this. This question is the ‘moral of the story’ for this novel. Can you, regardless of all the misfortunes, missed opportunities, mistakes, live a happy life? Does every human being deserve the ability to overcome adversity as Charlie does in the book?
I feel as though my blog posts are becoming redundant because of my fascination with the certain theme of the book that allows Charlie to be a dynamic character, the choice of happiness. Charlie chooses to put others first and he finds happiness from allowing others to act as they wish in order to enable their happiness. He is reprimanded for this in the end of the novel by the woman he sought to enable happiness for throughout the entire novel. Sam tells him that he cannot simply be the shoulder for others to cry on, but the arms as well. She demands that he enable his own happiness, and live his life for himself. I disagree with this because it is Charlie’s sweet and nurturing nature that I find engrossing, and what builds this books importance to society in my mind. Charlie is a dynamic character (his knowledge of the ways of the world expand and he is able to cope with the loss of his extremely close aunt much better), but in other ways he is not. He is not dynamic in that his intentions for others never change; he thinks only of the others happiness, and for this he is an incredible.
The last couple dozen pages of this novel are bittersweet and joyfully heartbreaking. Though his friends graduate and he is left alone; I was left with the wonderfully sweet flavor of hope. His ability to overcome is joyful, yet the fact that the last page is done and through, to me, is devastatingly heartbreaking. I feel as though this is the type of ground shaking novel that one reads over and over again just to feel the emotion and sense of inner wholeness and outer connection that he or she initially feels.
I know I will.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
ReplyDeleteNovel by Stephen Chbosky
Jessica Pollard
Pages- 213/213
Since before the dawn of education it seems, teachers and adults alike have been warning us time and time again never to judge a book by its cover. It’s the perfect fall back cliché, and often throughout elementary school, it seemed to be the moral of just about everything we read. But now, I look at the cover of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and throw the literal meaning of that cyclical saying out the window. I see the simple font, small and lowercase on the very top of the cover. I look at the picture in the right corner of a person’s (presumably Charlie’s) legs. I get lost in the placid sea of bright green, and I know that the cover is a perfect representation of the novel: Simple and enticing, honest and interpretable. The cover reminds the soon to be readers that simplicity can equal brilliance, and the text within the novel proves this.
Since the beginning, I have been enthralled with the oddly bittersweet wonderland that Chbosky has so cleverly designed. First, he creates a beautiful character that is deep with understanding, thoughtful, and mature friends. He pulls the reader into the novel by adding simplistic but insightful descriptions and extremely personal details. He allows the concepts to speak for themselves, rather than drowning them within complex wording. He slips a captivating story into the mix, gives it a satisfying ending, and calls the master behind brilliance Charlie.
The only thing that decreases the quality of this read is the failure to make the dialogue, characters, and situations realistic. The line(s) that probably irritated me the most in this respect were spoken from Charlie to his best friend and romantic interest Sam. In response to Sam’s unfortunate break-up with her boyfriend, Charlie says this:
“Well, I thought a lot of things. But mostly, I thought that your being sad was much more important to me that Craig not being your boyfriend anymore. And if it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay. That’s when I realized that I really loved you” (200).
The issue I have with this is that Chbosky devises situations (which are always resolved) and characters that make the world’s situations seem desperately unsolvable and the people seem brutally realistic and unkind. I think it’s safe to say that not many boys would respond in this way towards the person they liked or loved, even if they had the best of intentions.
Anyways, the book is done, the movie is being waited for, and I am still lost in the depths of Charlie-land.
Review of Perks of Being a Wallflower
ReplyDeleteNovel by Stephen Chbosky
Keely Corrigan
Pages- 213/213
Do not embark upon this incredibly personal and affecting book if you fear involvement. This is not the type of book that one can read passively; Charlie (the protagonist) deserves much more.
This novel grabs ones heart, whispers into ones ears intelligent prose that tickle ones brain, and challenges previous perceptions of life. Moments in this book are so emotional and raw, it seems impossible for them to be fiction. Charlie points out the miniscule details that make up the world that we pass by without a second look. Charlie analyzes human behavior, thought, and culture without coming off as rehearsed/educated, as if all that he says comes straight from his thoughts not someone else’s.
The tempo of the book is fun to read, with a moment of drama, then a moment of intellectual discussion, then another event of plot movement. The heartbeat-like tempo makes this book hard to put down. Once you begin this book, you are in. The expression, “once you are in, you’re in” should be written in bold letters on the cover. Which Jessie is correct about: it is definitely “Simple and enticing, honest and interpretable.”
Reality is not a strong suit in this novel, but does give it strength in a weird, nonsensical way. This book is not realistic, but it provides an escape: an escape from the harsh world of ours that is filled with isolated, selfish individuals to a place where people actually care about the other human beings around them. It doesn’t matter that the book couldn’t happen in real life; the point is simply that it happens. This world is available to everyone through this incredible, unforgettable modern classic.
SCORE: 9.75 / 10
I completely agree with Keely in the sense that you should not read this book unless you have the time and energy to make a new friend and get involved with the text.
ReplyDeleteSetting that idea aside, The Perks of Being a Wallflower was really just a fantastic book. It has all those elements that a book-loving teenager, boy or girl, would enjoy: romance, humor, tragedy, secrecy, and friendship. But it is far from cliché. Chbosky creates a character so welcoming and unlike anyone you’d ever meet, that the book is completely original.
In my opinion, the strongest element of this book lies not in plot or setting, but in characterization. Chbosky has a definite knack for creating three dimensional characters with interesting lives and quirks. The characters can inspire the readers to become better people themselves, especially Charlie, the narrator of the story. Although unrealistic, Charlie is beautiful in his way of thinking and in his personality. He lends thoughtful insights that leave the reader hungry for the meaning of life.
The writing style (though also a part of Charlie’s character), is definitely unique. The author makes the reader feel as though Charlie is confiding with them. Because of the simplicity of Charlie’s voice, understanding the plot isn’t a task like it can be in other reads.
Though Keely and I have both said this numerous times, the fault of this book is its lack of realistic characters and situations. Personally, I do not feel that it adds to the novel only because the perfectness of it all made me jealous for something I can never have (that being the bittersweet symphony that Charlie calls his life). Even the glummest of situations were resolved and discussed throughout the novel. Charlie and his friends were incredibly deep and knew a lot about them, almost more than a teenager really should.
In a very un-Simon Cowellish manner, I give this book a strong 9 out of 10 because I loved it that much. I seriously feel comfortable recommending to anyone who likes to think about life, and is looking for a friend. This novel is timeless, and doesn’t exactly get as much credit as I feel it deserves. It’s the sort of book that deserves a permanent spot on the bookshelf and should be read dozens of times over the course of several years. Let Charlie into your heart, and I guarantee he wins a permanent spot there.
I love you Charlie!!!!
Score: 9/10