anger out on yourselves, especially since you're maturing into adulthood? "Go Ask Alice" is a non-fiction diary, written by an anonymous author in the late 1960's. Alice, the main character, begins a diary because she has no one else to talk too, and she spends her energy searching not for drugs, but for someone who will understand her. The drugs only create the temporary illusion that she is in touch with nature and people. Alice is a curious, committed young adult for three reasons. She runs away from
Go Ask Alice is about the life of a teenage girl who was a victim of drug abuse. She started her diary because she was going through social issue. Sh was not very popular at her school and had feelings for this boy named Roger. She struggles with relating to her parents and is self conscious as to how she appears to others. Her father got a new job as a professor at a university and the family had to move to a different town. Alice wasn’t having any luck at being popular in her new school than she
Go Ask Alice Go Ask Alice is the diary of a young 15 year old drug abuser. At the beginning of the book, "Alice" is a typical, insecure, middle class teenager that only thinks with boys, diets, and popularity. She never taught of getting into drugs. This girl had a lot of self esteem, and was very happy. Her life changes for the worse when her family moves to a new town and she finds herself less popular and more isolated than ever before. That is why she buys this diary to express herself with
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
Synopsis: 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). The girl writing the diary is very concerned with her weight, her crush Roger and has a hard time fitting in in school. She is very relieved at first when she hears that her family is going to move to a new town
Go Ask Alice Have you ever had a problem? I'm sure you have because everybody sometime in there life does. The book I read Go Ask Alice by an anonymous author is all about problems, conflicts, and how to deal with them. I would give a lot of information on the author if that was possible, but the author is anonymous so I can not do so. From the very first page I had a hunch that this book was about a drug addiction problem. "SUGAR & SPICE & EVERYTHING NICE; ACID & SMACK & NO WAY BACK" (page 1)
Laina Schumacher HLT 121 Drug Use and Abuse Campbell 04/18/14 Go Ask Alice Go Ask Alice is a collection of various diary entries from an anonymous narrator who is never named (we’ll call her Alice). Alice is a typical teenager in the late 1960’s trying to find herself in the world. She is fifteen years old and is worried about all the normal teenage stuff (boys, sex, weight, social life, parents), and just like many other teenagers, she has trouble finding a place for herself, and turns to drugs
Deserve To Be Banned: Go Ask Alice 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
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 and a drag on my family," (Anonymous, 13). With these words, we are accepted into the girl's life, and into her heart and mind. I chose this quote because it
Go Ask Alice Summary An unnamed fifteen-year-old diarist, whom the novel's title refers to as Alice, starts a diary. With a sensitive, observant style, she records her adolescent agony: she worries about what her crush Roger thinks of her; she despises her weight gain; she fears her budding sexuality; she is uncomfortable at school; she has difficulty relating to her parents. Alice's father, a college professor, accepts a teaching position at a different college and the family will move at the
diary entry has a lot of power over someone’s privacy. It’s a daily record on whatever the owner wants. It can be on how their day was, or just how they felt throughout the day. A lot of people confess their secrets there. Just like in the book “Go Ask Alice” I decided to write three diary entries. Of course I pretended to be someone else, I pretended to be a girl that was sexually assaulted by her own father, so I would drink and consume drugs to numb the pain. In the diary entries I pretended to
novel by the name of “Go Ask Alice” did that; this book is about a teenage girls struggle with drugs. Creating film adaptations for movies has become very common because directors can be sure that their target audiences are intrigued by the topic of their future film. Readers often look forward to seeing their favourite novel be brought to life; however, when the adaptation is not done correctly it can bring a great deal of disappointment. The best selling, 1971 novel, “Go Ask Alice” far surpasses its
smoking pot and shooting heroin. This was the 1970s. Alice of “Go Ask Alice” would have been greatly influenced by this era of time. Although she had cleaned up her act, Alice most likely would have had trouble resisting the temptation provided by her peers to smoke, make love, and have the time of her life. Although one cannot say that for sure. Counseling also became much more readily available to people afflicted with addictions. So, maybe Alice would have been okay. There’s no way to really tell
The novel Go Ask Alice is a notably controversial piece of literature in modern society. It captures the darker qualities of civilization as many know it—explores the concepts of illegal drugs and psychological conflict that society has deemed [improper]. The novel is—more often than not—categorized as a coming-of-age story centered on “Alice’s” moral journey as she learns to reject the temptations imposed upon her by addiction and societal pressure. However, the novel’s strong undertone that illegal
diaries’ of troubled teenagers”. The book Go Ask Alice was created and uncovered by supposedly editor, Beatrice Sparks, uncovering horrifying acts upon teenagers. Go Ask Alice is a censored book in some or many states because of the use of sexual content and inappropriate language. In the 1980’s, the “supposed editor”, Beatrice Sparks, was uncovered, and they hoped that her story would deter others from using drugs and sexual acts or rape upon teenagers. Go Ask Alice was published by the parents of the
During this semester the class studied three novels. The first, killing Mr.Griffin, was about five students who prank kidnap their English teacher which results in unexpected consequences the Second, Go Ask Alice, was about was about an emotional, distressed adolescents girl who experiences an emotional downward spiral which eventually leads to her death. Finally, One Way is about an adolescents boy entangled in legal problems as a result of an unfortunate accident with his "ex" girlfriend. The main
Growing up I didn’t have any interest in reading. All throughout elementary school I was placed in the lowest reading level and I took that position as a sign that I wasn’t good enough to read, so I didn’t enjoy it. Why did people read for fun? What was fun about reading?! I didn’t find any kind of interest in reading until fairly recently so today, I’ll share my journey with reading with you. The first book that truly had an impact on me was Shel Silverstein's “The Giving Tree”. To me,
After Martha has entered the family home, she looks around and immediately exclaims, “What a dump!”. She then asks George which film the phrase comes from. It is possible that Martha already knows the answer to this, but asks George anyway, because she is aware that he does not. This is the first “game” that is played out between the two characters. Martha continues to ask her husband which Bette Davis film the phrase is from, and he eventually gives her a reluctant answer, “Chicago! Its
angrier and angrier. They eventually found a good spot to start the game. Alexis got the camera ready.They set the board up with the Planchette facing where it said Ouija. They start the Video, “Hey guys Alexis here and today I am joined by Kara, Alice, and Mckenzie, Today we are doing the Ouija board challenge. The worst part is that we are doing it in the old and abandoned insane asylum, Let’s just get started,” Mckenzie states. They set their fingers on the Planchette and moved it in a circular
The book Alice in wonderland was published in 1865, by Lewis Carroll, this book has become part of many adults and children’s lives and has been a cherished fairy tale for many years. The story begins with a young girls dream called Alice, and the adventures that are about to take place in the unconscious mind of Alice, due to her starting to drift off to sleep by becoming bored of her sister reading her a novel with no pictures. (Carroll,1992). However, since it’s traditional origin, many generations