Would you want someone to know everything you think or everything you see? Would you want people to know who you are when they are readying your "diary"? Well the author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower wants his name and evryone in his books name to be fake. He makes up fake names to hide identies of the people. This book describes her whole high school experience and how she beat a boy up. How she walked in on her sister and her boyfriend. This book took a lot to publish and her identity being hidden makes the read more interesting. 

You get into the life of a normal high school girl. She watches her sister get beat by her boyfriend. She watches as people in the hallwyas look at her weird. She talks out a boy named "Nothing". It is not his real name his real name is Patrick and everyone called him patty on the play ground. "Listin, you eaither call me Patrick, or you call me nothing." She tells the storys of other kids too not just hers.