Go Ask Alice

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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 did at her old one. Everyone else including her younger siblings Tim and Alex were adjusting to the move well. That changes when she manages to find friendship in her Jewish neighbor, Beth. Now that she had a new friend life was going good for her until Beth had to leave for summer camp. She decides to go back to her old town and spend the summer with her grandparents.
While there she ran into her old friend Jill and she invited her to a party. She did not intentionally try drugs in the beginning. It wasn’t until she was at Jill’s party and given a soda when she had her first taste of drugs. Unaware that the soda was laced with LSD she drank it without suspecting anything. Even though she enjoyed her drug trip that incident she did not plan on touching drugs ever again.
Her curiosity got the better of her and she was interested in trying pot. She then met this boy named Billy who was a friend of Jill’s that introduced her to other types of drugs. While on drugs she loses her virginity to Billy and fears she might be pregnant.. In the midst of all of this Alice’s grandfather had a heart attack and her old crush Roger shows up with his parents to check on him. She feels ashamed to face Roger because of her drug use. She feels hor...

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...gs become an outlet for her after a while. Her encounters with the many people she met through her journey with drugs, such as the people at the mental hospital and other runaway teens, help her cope because they are going through some of the same things.
I liked the story a lot because I myself am a teenage girl. I can relate to Alice about feeling insecure sometimes, or trying to find out the kind of person you are. Self identity was a strong factor in Alice’s life that she had to struggle with. Every teen goes through this, but in different ways. Her struggles led her to drugs which ended her life and that was deep to me. This book gave a firsthand detailed experience on what she went through. I like the fact that the book is nonfiction and I’m just reading about another made up story. Go Ask Alice gives you a taste of reality and a different outlook on life.

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