Go Ask Alice Book Report

For her, everyday acts seem much more enjoyable when on drugs. She goes out of their way to experience something new and exciting. She is a creative writer and uses drugs as a way to get back to her child-like imaginative state. Suddenly, with the drugs back in her life, she seems to have much more insight and a wilder imagination. "And the afternoon was absinthe yellow and almond, burnt orange and chrysanthemum. And in the abstract sky, a litany of kites"(93). She longs to feel this way all of the time, but she knows the consequences. She sees doing drugs like going to a carnival. It is an escape from the boring life she is leading now. Even though she has a daughter, she still feels like there is something she is missing out on. The idea of motherhood takes backseat to her lust for drugs.

Alice has now passed through her by trail by fire, and she feels like an adult from the way others treat her as an individual. She declares “I am somebody: but her real maturation is not from how others respond to her, but from wise reflections on what it means to survivors the troubled times of adolescence.

She becomes very reactive and unapologetic. Her final step in harming her marriage is stonewalling. Alice starts to pull away from Michael and his love. He wants to help her, but she is not ready to accept that yet. She makes is difficult for the entire family to heal by doing this. She becomes withdrawn and pushes away those who love her. These things are very are very apparent in this couple’s relationship.

absence of Alice lays down a theme for the novel: you must return to your roots

Alice runs away again, this time on her own. She struggles to survive, and only cares about drugs. After a few weeks, she breaks down and calls her parents. She goes back home with them. Again, she swears off of drugs. The kids she used to hang around are pressuring her to do drugs again, and even start bullying her. This time, however, Alice stays off of drugs. She deals with the bullying. She meets and falls for a nice guy and she’s closer with her family. Things start to look up when she’s drugged. Her family believes her, but she is sent to an insane asylum. It’s very difficult, but she gets through it and is let out.

Reading the novel She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb has led me to think about my own challenges, which helped me better comprehend the book’s themes. Throughout the story, protagonist Dolores Price deals with a variety of issues, which includes appearance, constant mistakes, and amends for those mistakes to understand her purpose in life. Although Dolores’s problems are different from mine, I could relate to her struggle. Because of this, I was able to better understand myself and the themes of transformation and coming of age.

Alice started using illegal drugs one of them was heroin, and she started becoming an alcoholic after she was failing (“Alice Sebold Biography”). Alice then started working at restaurants and she also started teaching (“10 facts about Alice Sebold”). 10 years after living in Manhattan Alice moved to California in 1994 (“10 facts about Alice Sebold”). When She moved there she started working as a caretaker, Alice met her husband that was a fellow writer and his name was Glen David Gold from the University of California at Irvine (“10 facts about Alice

A divided sense of self is a prevalent theme throughout the memoir whereby Sarah described her experience of addiction as providing a route from feeling ‘sluggish’ and ‘stupid’ to ‘strong’ and ‘forceful’. Sarah’s experience of sobriety was evidently challenging. Throughout the memoir there is a common recurrence of conflict about Sarah’s self-worth, with admirable qualities about herself being perceived as deriving from alcohol consumption. Sarah’s attempts to maintain this positive identity consequently led her to become trapped within her addiction, and over time, lose

Go Ask Alice is a reminder that drugs aren’t always what they seem to be in today’s society, they can lead you onto a dark path that could ruin your life, and potentially end it. Because of this, the anonymous author’s apparent true story of her addiction is a great read. The story may be a bit older, but it is still relevant to teenage life today. Go Ask Alice takes the reader into something personal, a story of apparent real life drug addiction, something that is not often explored even now. This creates an important story with an even more important message for teenagers, both in 1971 and 2018.

But in total she was more of a victim than a hero or a feminist everything that happens to alice ends up in something drug related when that is not in her best interest . She gets a new group of friends she does drugs gets a job selling drugs every man she is with are on drugs moves to a city it is the drug capital alice and

Once this girl started with the drugs, she could not stop. As soon as she tried the first drug, it lead to all of the other drugs and things that she did. Her first time doing the drug was an accident, and she did not know, but she made the wrong choice in continuing to do them. She said it gave her a feeling of belonging and love that she had never felt before. If her parents or her close friends had paid more attention to her, then some of the events that happened would not have happened. Her heavy drug use lead to her runaway from home to the streets, involvement in crime, her prostitution, and her visit to the insane asylum. She found a "best friend" (Chris) - one that would give her drugs - and they decided to runaway and leave their family and friends to start their own shop in San Francisco. They thought they could not handle their parents telling them what is right and what is wrong, but that is what they needed to hear. They were naive in thinking they could live their lives alone without any rules or any authority.

The novel Go ask Alice is written by an anonymous author and is based on a diary kept by a conventional teenager who then turns into a suicidal drug addict. What happens to Alice at one unsavoury party changed her life forever. She is invited to Jill’s party, someone she doesn 't know well, where her drink is unknowingly spiked with LSD. Not long after that Alice amassed a dependence on drugs, for example she was unable to last even a few days sober. The author of the diary, Alice, has a raw style and format of writing that fascinated me. The writing style exposed real emotions, and did not hold back. It was as if Alice was talking to her best friend and thought that no one would see her diary. I also think that because I am a teenager and so is Alice I was able to relate to the life she had and the pressures she feels. Alice taught me that even saying yes once to drugs, could lead to life threatening consequences. The themes I noticed were, the influence of the media, the highs and lows of teenage life and the dangers of drug use.

was the most amazing thing in the world. Alice became addicted to drugs and was rapidly

A major influence on Alice's identity was when she was a young child and her grandmother would tell her stories about events that occurred in Cambodia. In Alice's teenage years, her beloved grandmother has a stroke, developed disabilities and eventually had passed away. It is around this time where serious psychological problems occur for Alice. This almost forces her into a mental state in which she knows she does not fit in with the Australian culture. She believed she had to do everything she could to change that otherwise Alice knew she would break down mentally. Alice was forced to attempt to fit the social standards of Australia.

Before seeking treatment, Alice’s struggles are pretty evident. I think the struggles are the most evident when looking at Jess. You can tell that she knows her mom is not well and that she worries about her. She watches her struggle to get out of bed in the morning, and voices her worries to Michael when she does not come home when she is supposed to. Trying to find a solution to their struggles, Michael suggests that they rearrange his flight schedule and take a trip to Mexico. While there, Alice continues her heavy drinking and reckless behavior. This results in her falling out of a rowboat, into the water and if not for Michael jumping in to save her, drowning. This event scared the two of them enough to realize that she had a problem and needed to start putting in some serious effort to stop.