An anonymous author wrote this book because this book is a real young girl's diary. The theme of this book is reality. It talks about a young girl named Alice who moved to a new state and started high school. She meets a friend in her new school but when she goes away for the summer all bad things begin to happen. Alice wasn't considered to hang out with popular kids in her old school but when she came to visit she met up with them and they started to talk to her and invited her to a party. At the party there were a lot of drugs and some of the popular kid's thought it would be funny if they s...

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• Grade Level: High School

Go Ask Alice is based on the actual diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user. It is not a definitive statement on the middle-class, teenage drug world. It does not offer any solutions. ... sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me." - Hunter S. Thompson Due to the fact that for a extensive amount of time, about a year to be exact, Alice didn't understand that sex, drugs, or insanity was a depraved way to live her life. Drugs worked for her for a long period of time. She never minded a shot of heroine, she ... really realized that everything she did was slowly killin...

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... the novel, Go Ask Alice, finding out all of the unbelievable, yet true, experiences and feelings of Alice is quite shocking. No matter how shocking they may seem, you can very easily relate those experiences and feelings to those of a typical day-in and day-out teenager. Those characteristics being loneliness, a generation gap, and defiance. At the beginning of the novel, Alice finds herself to ... their parents. Many times throughout the novel, Alice pretty much does what she wants, when she wants no matter what. Such as when Chris and Alice go to San Francisco. They are in total contr...

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... individual conflicts. According to an ex smoker I interviewed, using drugs put him in a world "so unimaginable" it made him feel "invincible." In the novel I read, Go Ask Alice, an anonymous character serves as a typical example of a teenager who resorts to drugs in order to solve their problems. The anonymous character resorts to drug use because of ... music, but she wanted to be different. She wanted to be noticed, and drugs were the way she felt was right. In conclusion, the anonymous character in Go Ask Alice strived to fit in socially, get good grades, be popular, and altogether, t...

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• Grade Level: High School