In “Go Ask Alice”, Alice is a normal teenager. She just wants to be accepted by her friends and her family. However, she gets influenced and tries drugs in the process. Whenever she’s stressed, drugs are her only constant friend. Throughout the book, she battles with her addiction, and she eventually dies because of it. When she first tries drugs, it was accidentally. She doesn’t really go out looking for it, she gets surprised by it. On page 35 it says, “I sort of asked Jill what happened and she said that 10 out of the 14 bottles of coke had LSD in them and, “button, button” no one knew just who would wind up with them. Wow, am I glad I was one of the lucky ones.” The drinks at Jill’s party were spiked, and Alice didn’t know. However, she enjoys the trip, and she gets hooked. She also tries speed. Then, her grandpa has a heart attack. Alice feels guilty, and on page 40 promises to herself, “ I don’t know why I shouldn’t use drugs, because they’re wild and they’re beautiful and they’re wonderful, but I know I shouldn’t, and I won’t! I won’t ever again. I hereby solemnly promise th...
In 1971 a book was published under the name of Go Ask Alice, with no author or editor. It was just written under anonymous. Although anonymous during the mid 1980, Beatrice Sparks, a teen physiologist, was uncovered to have helped write a good portion of the book. Although she helped the real author was never reveled. This book portrays the life and choices that fifteen year old Alice faces in her life. Although the character is named Alice, she does not correlate with any specific person in real life. The journals were a combination of different patients Sparks was seeing. Since its publishing in 1971 Go Ask Alice has become one of the most controversial banned books. This is because of its strong commentary on sex, suicide, heavy drug usage and teen pregnancy. After finishing the book, this book should not be in the banned books. This book had strong language for a younger child to read but. it shows what can happen to teenagers, what students will do for drugs, and it has a strong message for older teens.
Should alcohol be considered a drug?. The columnist, Anna Quindlen, discusses this question with a strong position in her article "The drug that pretends it isn 't", published on April 9, 2000. During her argument Quindlen tries to convince her audience with rhetorical features about her concerns with alcohol, referring to it as a "habitual drug of choice". In a very supportive organization of her claim, she emphasizes that alcohol is a substance that facilitates terrible consequences to the public and for this reason, she justifies that it should be banned . Throughout the article, reinforcing her opinion, she explains about the repercussions that alcohol creates; refuting with relevant statistics that demonstrates a high rate of alcohol abuse related problems, as well as the disturbing effect on the country 's economy. Nevertheless, Quindlen uses a critical but also sarcastic tone during her writing, questioning and criticizing why society prefers to pay attention to illicit drugs, and
An important section of the novel that was missing from the movie, was the introduction into Alice’s life. The director, Beatrice Sparks, had decided to ignore the preamble of Alice and skip to when she was first introduced to drugs. An explanation on who Alice is and how she lived her life without drugs would have helped the viewers understand why Alice turned to drugs. Alice was a sad and quiet girl who never seemed to fit in with any crowd. In the following quote, Alice explains her first week of school.
Throughout Alice’s childhood, Jane struggled with alcoholism and panic attacks. “I wished my mother were normal, like other moms, smiling and caring, seemingly, only for her family” (37). When Alice’s rape is discussed, Jane feels anxious and goes into these panic attacks. During these attacks, Jane is in an unstable state of mind, and she cannot function properly. Normally, a teenage girl seeks out her mother for guidance in a time of need. However, in this situation, the mother/daughter roles are reversed, and Alice must comfort Jane. While Jane is having a difficult time with the rape, Alice had to step up and support her mother. Jane’s reaction to the rape influences Alice to console her, which make her a more secure
The novel „Go Ask Alice” was written by Beatrice Sparks in 1971. It is set in the United States of America in the late 1960’s and is written in form of a diary of a confused and troubled fifteen-year-old girl, named Alice(presuming the title of the novel references to her name).
I do not believe this world will ever be completely free. People living on this planet would take advantage and make this beautiful place a complete shit hole. Gore Vidal introduces the topic of giving humans the freedom to take any single drug they want. He tells us that we should label these drugs with the side effects and allow anyone to take them at their own risk. His whole point is to let people in our society do what they want with their own body. Flannery O’Connor takes on the subject of making the younger generation of students learn the about the past. She is upset at the fact that this generation of students are only interested in learning about what is now and are uninterested in learning about the past. O’Connor truly believes
Beyond many doubts, Go Ask Alice gave teenagers the wrong perspective on early life, and was selectively removed to restrain any drug use or fondling behaviors in inappropriate ways. Many adults and parents agreed that this is not what the children needed to sustain their life. The banning of this book restricted a lot of negativity and limited the audiences directed
The author in Go Ask Alice explains her view of life in her diary. Her view of life and living changes throughout the story as she experiences deaths, drugs, and personal struggles. Near the beginning of her diary, she writes about how when she dies she wanted to be crimated instead of buried. She explains how the thought of being burried scares her and how the worms and maggots will eat your skin while you are dead. The idea of maggots eating people's dead bodies comes back several times throughout the story. As for living, her ideas of living changes as she gets into her drug addiction and experiences many hardships.
This extremity of emotion brings her to downfall. Her tendency to limit her own abilities by her nature of fixed habits or unmovable convictions isolates Alice from her community and distorts her features. She had once been a beautiful girl but grows into a woman with a head too large for her body. This is symbolic of her self-consumption, loneliness, and illusions. “I am becoming old and queer. If Ned comes he will not want me.” (Anderson 117). She grows to support the theme of life in death, living within her own imagination and memory to the point that her head is nearly expanding under the stress. She denies herself the reality of life by narrowing the experience to a dream world. By making absolute convictions and believing her own lies, Alice refuses to meld her worlds of dream and reality together. For example, Will Hurley, the man who walks her home from Church meetings, is an impostor into her narrowly constructed universe and thus she does not want to...
With many speculations as to what the story is about, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a tale that still entices readers. Written in 1865, Charles Dodgson created a tale under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Within that tale Carroll inevitably created a character of ambition within the little girl, Alice. From the beginning of the tale, she is displayed as being adventurous, leaving her sister’s side to follow a white rabbit down a mysterious hole; complacent until she finds herself in a predicament. New ideas about the story revolve mainly around drugs, speaking as if it were some psychedelic LSD trip. Another theory also led to the belief that its’ author was nothing more than a pedophilic gentleman who had too close of a relationship with
In Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Alice comes to realize the unpredictable nature of life and she must learn to adapt to illogical circumstances that are uncomfortable and unfamiliar such as when Alice contemplates the Mad Hatter’s riddle, when Alice plays a part in the Queen of Hearts’ shenanigans, and when Alice takes place in the Knave of Hearts’ trial. Alice’s conversation with the Mad Hatter is her first experience in new territory of ridiculous situations as she tries to understand the confusing words of the Hatter. The Queen of Hearts’ unpredictable behavior further prepares her to adapt to uncomfortable and precarious situations. Lastly, Alice’s participation in the criminal trial that fails to follow the rules of justice Alice is familiar with teaches her to adapt to new events even if they fail to make sense. In other words, Alice redefines her close-mindedness to matters she is uncomfortable with in order to accept illogical situations and grow accustom to nonsensical events.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a story about a little girl who comes into contact with unpredictable, illogical, basically mad world of Wonderland by following the White Rabbit into a huge rabbit – hole. Everything she experiences there challenges her perception and questions common sense. This extraordinary world is inhabited with peculiar, mystical and anthropomorphic creatures that constantly assault Alice which makes her to question her fundamental beliefs and suffer an identity crisis. Nevertheless, as she woke up from “such a curious dream” she could not help but think “as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been ”.
Although the novel is notorious for its satire and parodies, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland main theme is the transition between childhood and adulthood. Moreover, Alice’s adventures illustrate the perplexing struggle between child and adult mentalities as she explores the curious world of development know as Wonderland. From the beginning in the hallway of doors, Alice stands at an awkward disposition. The hallway contains dozens of doors that are all locked. Alice’s pre-adolescent stage parallels with her position in the hallway. Alice’s position in the hallway represents that she is at a stage stuck between being a child and a young woman. She posses a small golden key to ...
Drugs are something that has been prevalent in our society for many decades now. It seems that as our population continue to grow, drugs seem to continue to have a major impact throughout our society, then used by drug seem to have been influenced by many things, either through social or cultural factors and it have affected people in many different ways such as their behavior, their attitude and just basically their livelihood. Today our society is deeply infected with the issue of drugs, we look around our society and we see young kids are being consume by drugs, we see workers, and executive people are also being consumed by drugs. Drugs continue to play a huge role in our society because while most people
At the beginning of the story Alice is a little girl who is very curious, but also quite scared of being alone. First of all, she has an inquiring mind that brings her down the rabbit hole and, even if her way of thinking could remind the adult kind of thoughts, she still acts like a child. A clear example of this kind of behavior is when she finds a bottle with the words “DRINK ME” labeled on. Before drinking f...