Go Ask Alice

The effect of addiction have consumed billions of individuals all over the world, not only consume but also killed. Individuals have relied on drugs to fill the void in their life that is missing. The addict is not only hurting themselves from the drug use but their families, friends, and their community. In this paper, it will give a description of a 21-year-old male named Anthony. Anthony started using marijuana at the age of 20, trying to hide the pain from the death of his sister. Eventually, marijuana was not enough to get Anthony the extra high he wanted which Anthony made the choice to try another drug and eventually it

I found it unfortunate that the film does not include more incidents such as those that Alice reveals in her AA speech. She reveals that she got out of the shower, then went outside with a towel to get the paper, however it was still folded up in her hand. The film avoids any scene with regards to her driving drunk with

At the beginning of the novel, before Alice attended the fateful party that changed her world forever, she did not fully see her parents’ affection toward her; she was caught up in her teenage world of guys and heartbreak, leading her to misinterpret how her parents only had her best interests in mind. For example, on September 17 she

Alice faced severe challenges throughout the movie. However, she was a college professor, who was well-known and very intelligent. Alice had a wonderful husband with 3 beautiful children, 2 girls and one son. Alice family was the most important thing to her as a wife and mother. Alice was always on the go as a professor and wife. Alice loss her mother and sister in a car wreck a year ago on January 19th and her father passed away due to being an alcoholic. In the beginning of the movie Alice well aware of her surrounds and competent to her priorities. Alice was a peaceful, sweet, and humble young lady, who had a lot of respect for individuals. As time went by, Alice became fearful of the episodes she were experiencing. However, she felt it had to do with menopause. With that being said, she never took it seriously of the traumatic episodes that she came in contact with on a daily basis. Thoroughly, Alice begin to realize as time went by that her episodes begin to get worse and she start experiencing hallucinations. Alice experienced many different events of losing memory. Alice enjoyed exercising every morning. One particular morning, Alice went out to do her daily exercise, while do so Alice breath got heavier and heavier to obtain. Alice stop to caught her breath, in the process of trying to caught her breath, everything around her was spinning. Alice forgot where she was at that moment and had to give herself time to come back to reality. She became fearful and realized

After her secret night with Eddie, she comes home, lies about that night’s events, and goes to sleep. A few days later, Connie’s family goes to a barbecue and Connie finds herself home alone with nothing to do. After a while, an unfamiliar car comes up her long driveway. She runs in the house, but the driver honks the horn and she comes to the door. To her surprise, the shaggy-haired boy stands

Go Ask Alice, was written anonymously by a teenage girl. Go Ask Alice has become a well known, first-person account of the world of addiction. It has touched the hearts of many adolescents and also warned them about the drug world and all that comes with the lifestyle. It has also given adults an important insight into the minds of drug-addicted adolescence.

Drug Addiction “Drug overdose was the leading cause of injury death in 2012. Among people 25 to 64 years old, drug overdose caused more deaths than motor vehicle traffic crashes”(Centers for Disease Control). The novel, Go Ask Alice is written by an anonymous 15-year old girl with a perceptive, attentive approach, she writes about her experiences, speculations, and involvements within many issues such as weight loss, teenage angst, sexuality, social acceptance, and most importantly the topic of drug abuse. This leads to her realization of her deliberate problem with drugs and sexual activities. According to The University of Maryland Medical Center, drug abuse is the recurrent use of illegal drugs, or the misuse of prescription or over-the-counter

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.

“...I feel like I could disappear. I feel like I am breaking.” (Knowles, 166) This quote is from a book that impacted my life, and the way i see things. “See You at Harry’s” is a book about a young girl named Fern. Fern leads a somewhat normal life, she has two brothers and an older sister, but when disaster strikes she feels like it’s all her fault. This story taught me two valuable lessons. One, bad things happen and it’s no one's fault, and two, everyone is different and that’s okay.

Also, the character of Alice has some interesting meaning to the story. The character of Alice may be modeled after the author Alice Munro because they have shared similar experiences between men. Apparently, the author had been through a divorce and many of the

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

Alice was the landlady for Mr. Gerald Absinthe’s house and had showed him kindness for the past 2 weeks by letting him work. She knew he had a lousy job and was searching in the market for a new one but looking for a job shouldn’t take this long.

Understanding there’s been a change in her body, Alice questions the probability that she might not be herself any longer. She believes she may have become someone else through the transformation, another typical child theory when growing up. If your appearance has changed, it may be likely that you’re not who you used to be, so of course, you must be someone else. This is also portrayed in the instance when she meets the Caterpillar. When asked, “Who are you?” by the Caterpillar, Alice honestly answers, “I hardly know”. The Caterpillar represents Alice as well, as it will also transform into something greater as it ages.

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.