I thought this part of the book was really interesting and cool to see how it relates to our society, just in an older time, and how the characters are also teenagers in high school. However, what stood out to me as was when Charlie, Patrick and Sam went to Bob's party. Back then, in the 1990's when this took place, the party moods were different than now-a-days in my opinion. At their party, they were all welcoming to Charlie, which I think is awesome and what I wish it was like still. They all respected and took him in and said "To Charlie" (38). However, an aspect that is the same now-a-days is that people pressure others into doing things they don't know better than or don't want to, as Charlie was given a pot brownie without knowing any better (33). Overall, while reading, I just thought it was interesting reading about the society (parties) then and thinking about the society (parties) now.
I also noticed this difference just in the way people treated each other in social situations in the 90s. Today, if there is a party and a person doesn't belong they will be ignore. But in Charlies case, they didn't occur that he didn't really fit in or that he wasn't invited. As long as he made an effort and was interested in doing the same ting as everyone else, they accepted him for a couple hours. And clearly based off other aspects of teenage culture back then, it was not like the people back then were just less judgmental and nicer over all, they just focused their hate on other topics such as homosexuals (Patrick and Brad). (CR)
It's interesting to see how we have grown as a society but have also taken a few steps back but stayed the same. People are shown to be accepting but only of what they are comfortable with. In modern day homosexuality is celebrated but there is still the if people do not know you they are not going to be so accepting in a public situation. (KC)
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