A Verwachtingen en eerste reactie
The reason that I've chosen this book is that I thought, by reading the back of the book, it would be an interesting and good book.
My first impression of the book was that it is a touching story, while I was reading it, it was like it was me who was going through everything, it felt as if I was Alice.
B Samenvatting en analyse
1 zakelijke gegevens van het boek:
a Go ask Alice.
b Anonymous
c Simon Pulse
d 1971
e 185
2 een EIGEN samenvatting van het verhaal (in het Nederlands), maximaal 1 a4-tje
Alice was een meisje die zichzelf te dikvondt en probeert af te vallen. In haar klas had ze niet veel vrienden en toen dan ook nog eens haar vriendje Roger de verkering uitmaakte leek het alsof haar hele wereld in elkaar stortte. Toen hoorde ze dat ze gingen verhuizen. Ze besloot een nieuw fijn leven te beginnen, maar op haar nieuwe saaie school heeft ze geen vrienden en voelt ze zich erg onzeker.
Dan ontmoet ze een joods meisje, Beth, waar ze heel goed mee kan opschieten en haar alles kan vertellen. Maar als het zomervakantie wordt gaat Beth op zomerkamp voor joodse kinderen en kan Alice niet mee. Ze besluit naar haar oma en opa te gaan, waar ze Jill, een meisje van haar vorige school tegenkomt. Jill nodigt haar uit voor haar feest en Alice besluit er heen te gaan. Ze wist niet dat ze daar in 10 van de 14 flesjes cola LSD hadden gedaan! Toen ze een flesje dronk begon ze te zweten en voelde ze een storm in haar lichaam, dat beschrijft ze erg mooi in haar dagboek. Al hoewel dit haar eerste keer was vond ze het een fijne ervaring. Ze besloot geen drugs meer te nemen, maar bleek toch niet sterk genoeg te zijn en niet 100 % achter haar besluit te staan. Jill bracht haar thuis en de volgende dag wilde ze al marihuana proberen, al gauw gebruikt ze steeds meer zoals peppillen en tranquillizers, ook gaat ze drugs snuiven en spuiten. Vooral Bill, een vriend van haar, haalde haar steeds over en hij is ook met haar naar bed gegaan. Nachten kon ze niet slapen om het feit dat ze misschien zwanger zou kunnen zijn. Ze had iemand nodig om mee te praten en ontmoette Chris, een meisje van een boetiek, die haar weer aan de peppillen brengt.
I would recommend this book to people who love realistic stories. Personally for me it is hard to find books that interest me and this one felt like if I was watching someone else's life while I read it. It has so many interesting points. When you think something might happen
What I liked most about it was reading from two different perspectives and how those different perspectives met through the book.
Does It 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 as 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 revealed.
This book was brilliant. There were moments that made me laugh, moments that made me tremble in my chair, moments that made me cry, moments that melted my heart, and moments that made me want to rip my hair out at the roots. This book has it all, and it delivers it through a cold but much needed message.
I loved this book, it is so incredibly moving and you want to cry and
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My overall opinion of this book is good I really liked it and recommend it to anyone. It is a good book to read and it keep you interested throughout the whole book.
I think my favorite thing about this novel was the realistic ending. Some books try to just give you a fairy tale but this book had an ending that mad you think in the end if I was in the same position would I do the same thing. I didn’t like the fact that the novel portrayed mental illness in a way to say that it needed to be hidden and protected. I thought this novel was very believable for the time period that it was set in. I think the ending to this novel was perfect it was an accurate ending to this
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 personal taughts. She becomes unhappy in the new town, she is overjoyed to be allowed to return to the old town to spend the summer with her grandparents. During this stay she is invited to a party by an old acquaintance; there she unwittingly ingests LSD that had been added to random bottles of Coca Cola and distributed to the party guests as a game. The other guests had mistakenly assumed Alice was aware of what the "game" entailed. After this, she seeks drugs deliberately, and rapidly proceeds to marijuana, amphetamines, and casual sex. A pregnancy scare and the return to her new town encourage her to turn away from drugs; however she soon falls in with the drug crowd where finally she finds acceptance. She starts dating a drug dealer and sells drugs to grade-schoolers for him. After realizing he was using her, she turns him in to the police and runs away from home with her new friend Chris, moving to San Francisco. After being given heroin and then being raped by Chris' boss, Shelia and her boyfriend, she and Chris return home.
*All in all I would say that this novel is definitely a good read. I found my self at times relating my own thoughts and experiences to that of the characters in the book. This is the very reason I would recommend that you give your class next semester the option of reading either this book or another. From my point of view, I think that most men can not relate to certain situations that occur, which lessens the overall significance of her writing.
I found the book to be easy, exciting reading because the story line was very realistic and easily relatable. This book flowed for me to a point when, at times, it was difficult to put down. Several scenes pleasantly caught me off guard and some were extremely hilarious, namely, the visit to Martha Oldcrow. I found myself really fond of the char...
This book was a good read for me, but I also read book reviews to help me keep track on what I am reading. These book reviews just made a better understanding of what I was reading.
...e preceding reasons, all college students should read the book. The book will captivate the educated mind, and most importantly, will cause that mind to think and to question why things happen as they do.
Firstly, I liked the way in which the author uses his experiences to relate ...
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