... minutes that character within. As I jumped back and forth, trying helplessly to decipher what stories intrigued me enough to write about them, I stumbled upon Alice Munroe. Her two short stories contain "realistic style that is comfortably familiar"(362) to me: "An Ounce of Cure" and "Prue." I can relate to ... Alice Munroe's short stories because I have encountered many of the same experiences as Munroe and her characters have. "Munroe's experience of growing up in a ... that caused my mother To look at me with an expression of brooding and fascinated despair, as if she could not possi...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• 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...

• Word Count: 532
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Teenagers of every race, religion, and clique relate deeply to the words of the anonymous teenager within the book Go Ask Alice, by an anonymous girl whose life enters a place where, as most teenagers, she has no idea who to turn to, or where to go. "Oh dear god, help me adjust, help me be accepted, help me belong, don't let me be an outcast ... ...

• Word Count: 820
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... 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...

• Word Count: 788
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School