Go Ask Alice

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.

Go Ask Alice is a 1971 book about the life of a troubled teenage girl. The book continues its claim to be the actual diary of an anonymous teenage girl who became addicted to drugs. Beatrice Sparks is listed as the author of the book by the U.S. Copyright Office. The novel, whose title was taken from a line in the Grace Slick, penned Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit", "go ask Alice/when she's ten feet tall", is presented as an anti-drug testimonial. The memoirist's name is never given in the book.

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.

At the beginning she is angry and depressed with herself because she is forgetting everything that she needs to remember every day, such as a simple and common word. Her emotional changes also affect her relationships with others and her own feelings, because she has a negative behavior with others when she yells or says a word of anger. I think is the way how she shows that she is trying to avoid what is happening in her life with an incurable disease that changes the direction of her life. She feels frustration about her memory problems because gradually she has a restriction of freedom that means she loses privacy and independence in each activity she wants to do. We cannot imagine what she is feeling when she is losing everything she learned, all the way back to basic activities such as the skill to walk, eat, or even use the bathroom. Alice feels frustrated about what she is living, because it is a way to say she is stigmatized with this disease as though she were already dead. On the other hand, and in a positive way, she begins to enjoy her life when she shares more time with her family. She feels curiosity about a future of her children and grandchild, and then she wants to live to enjoy everything, despite she would “be incapable of remembering and executing this kind of plan.” (Genova 118). She creates a simple test and games to remember simple things of her life, and she can

With the experience of being ignored, betrayed, and deprived, she becomes more afraid of loss and danger, but longs even more to have something to hold dear and belong to. When she gets into the convent school she finds temporary safety, being sheltered from the dangerous and unpredictable "outside", but her stepfather eventually brings her out into the

I can't sleep all day long and I certainly can't walk around like this so I hope he gives them to me. He's got to!”(Go Ask Alice 17), This shows how the subject of the novel’s sleeping patterns were a wreck when she says “I can’t sleep all day long”(Go Ask Alice 17). Another symptom that is commonly associated with drug abuse would be ”deteriorating relationships with family and friends”(Masline 35). At the beginning of the book the author befriends a girl named Beth, but after the author starts taking and abusing drugs, their friendship ends and both girls move on in new directions.

In the novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the main character, Alice, undergoes quite a change. During the time the novel was published, parts of the world were in the victorian era. The Queen at the time was Queen Victoria, in which the era was named after. During this era, knowledge, class and reason were greatly valued, and stressed. This time period ended in the year of Queen Victoria’s death. Throughout the novel, there are many ways that show how Alice begins to understand the world in adult terms, matures, and grows.

Go Ask Alice is a young adult book written by an anonymous author, and published in 1971. The novel tells the story of a fourteen year old girl in 1968 who writes about her experiences in a diary. The unnamed protagonist falls into a life filled with drug addiction, and is forced to deal with the consequences of it. She creates a life for herself that includes being raped, being bullied and eventually drugged, and having to become a prostitute to provide for her drug addiction. In both the epilogue and back cover of the book, it is revealed that the protagonist was either not able to overcome her addiction, or was drugged by her peers, and died of an overdose.

She is torn between her “mad” ideas and what society is telling her. “The story of Alice is played in the in-between space between this negative prophecy uttered by apparently sane English characters, “Be yourself and you will be mad,” and a magical Underland oracle affirmatively interpreted by utterly mad characters, “You are our champion, Be Yourself!” In the world of England,

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

“Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings. ”-Susan Cheever. Alice, the main character struggles with on and off addiction throughout a sum of 2 years. Addiction eventually lead to her unfortunate death at the mere age of 17.

When reading her life, she acknowledges the different opportunities provided to her and her siblings and their relationship. Continuing through the pages assigned, the reader comes to realize

These hardships foreground her characters evolution as she learns to live and thrive in her new surroundings. As readers we grow with her as she transforms from the nine year old innocent girl to the fifteen year old mature beyond her year’s

     Alice’s drug addiction drives her along with her family insane. She has to fight a

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.