Exploration 7 from Hayley

Part One: After reading The Things They Carried, I have a new understanding of the weight of war and the concept that you never truly understand something until you experience. Imagination isn't the same as being right there in that moment. That's the value that means the most to me from the novel. You never know what is really going on inside someone's head because you don't know where they've been and what they've seen, or sometimes, what they've done. You can't judge anyone for the things you don't understand.

Part Two: Charlie from Perks of Being A Wallflower is a fictional character that means a lot to me. I've never related to a character the way I related to him when I read the novel for the first time a couple years ago. It's one of my favorite books and Charlie is one of my all time favorite characters. Much of the way Charlie felt about the world and his own experiences were similar with my own views and feelings. A character has never spoken to me the way Charlie did.

Logan Lerman as Charlie in the film adaptation of Perks