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. It is, however, a highly personal and specific chronicle.
The diary starts and ends in September - covering a two year period. Capturing the torture and hell of adolescence, it tells the story of the lonely and self-hating female protagonist, under constant pressure from her "perfect" parents. Her first encounter with drugs is when she drinks something at party spiked with LSD. It takes the edge off of her bad feelings but as she delves into the darkness of drug addiction her life becomes consumed with highs and lows. The diary entries vary erratically from optimism to despair. Although there are some out-dated references to hippies and a lot of expired slang, the book continues to be a classic for teens in the present day. Though the debate over its authenticity continues, there is no debating the profound effect its text has had in the last twenty-five years. At the end of the book, the teenager is finally happy and over her drug addiction. She decides to stop keeping a diary. Three weeks later, she is found dead from a heroin overdose. The circumstances of this are unknown.
The first entry: "Yesterday I bought this diary because I thought at last I'd have something wonderful and great and worthwhile to say, something so personal that I wouldn't be able to share it with another living person, only myself." .
Two years later.her last entry:.
"I used to think I would get another diary after you are filled, or even that I would keep a diary or journal through my whole life. But now I don't really think I will. Diaries are great when you're young. In fact, you saved my sanity a hundred, thousand, million times. But I think when a person gets older she should be able to discuss her problems and thoughts with other people, instead of just with another part of herself as you have been to me.
Go Ask Alice The 1970s were a time of change, a time of revolution. ... Alice of "Go Ask Alice" would have been greatly influenced by this era of time. ... So, maybe Alice would have been okay. ... Of course, these weren't the only things going on during the seventies. ... All of these events would have had a large impact on the life of Alice of "Go Ask Alice". ...
In the book Go ask Alice , by Grace Slick, the main character Alice had suffered in a way that forced her to escape from her home to avoid her family. ... That was the time her parents noticed there was something going on with Alice Anonymous. Alice's best friend helped her and got her things that she needed. ... In the end, Alice came back home clean and didn't have any more trouble with drugs. ... The part I disliked about the book was when she was raped and what people made her go through. ...
Go Ask Alice The book I read was Go Ask Alice, author unknown. ... Throughout the book Alice experimented with such drugs as acid, marijuana and heroin. Because of her drug abuse problem, Alice ended up in an insane asylum. ... This book Go Ask Alice was realistic. ... Hopefully, if someone with the same problem as Alice read this book, it could alter their ending to be one different than Alice's. ...
Included in this bunch is a girl named Jan who Alice used to be friends with. ... Her only escape from all this is a guy named Joel, who goes to the university her father teaches at. ... Larson called Alice to do the job. ... So while she was high, she started basically going insane, and she was feeling the slimy, warm bodies of the worms crawling on top of her body, and she ripped chunks of flesh and skin and hair off, trying to get them off. ... At this point, she was screaming, and the neighbors came in and called the police, and Alice had to lie in the hospital for a long time, and after, ...
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 dropped out of school and she left her house. ... Read this book and find out what happens to Alice. ... Drugs mess you up and make you do bad things, you can tell that by the way Alice acts. ...
Alice the goes in a sleep like dream into "Wonderland". She goes through many obstacles and meets new characters, like the 'Mad Hatter, Cheshire-Cat, Queen of Hearts'. ... " Alice asks this question of herself in Chapter 2 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, just after she has grown to a giant size and frightened the White Rabbit away. ... " Alice asks how long forever is and the white rabbit explains to her, how it can only be a few seconds. ... The rabbit explains that you are only a child for such a small amount of time, and that there is no escape to go...
As to her identity that is also common when going through these stages. ... She has to go with the flow. ... The reason why they picked a caterpillar to tell Alice this is because of all the changes that the caterpillar goes through. ... Alice's first big break through is when she goes to the Duchess" house. ... When she asks if she can take the baby it is like she is almost ready for children and to become a mother herself. ...
