Literacy Narrative Essay: Go Ask Alice

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Literacy Narrative Essay: Go Ask Alice
All I have learned, I learned from books. It all started back in seventh grade. At that time of my life, I was having a physical and emotional problem. For instance, most the teenagers suffer from emotional and physical problems, because their body changes or because their body do not change, as well as they do not know what they want. During middle school, my life started to changed, my parents decided to move about three times a year, and that quickly changed my life. As well as I wanted a change a routine life, I had the same routine every single day almost for four years. However, I did not want that drastic change. One day I decided to do not attendant to my daily dance practice. I told my mom that I wanted a new book, and she took me to Sanborns, which is a store where sales electronics, music, movies and pretty good books. I still remember the impact the book had to me before, during and after I read the book.
I was entering to the store, and I felt nervous and the reality is that I did not know the reason of that. I went
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Besides, I love how a new book smells so as quickly I could I started to leaf through the book. Usually every time I open a new book, I like to read the synopsis that the books have on the back cover. But instead of read it as I do almost always I decided to go straight in to read the first chapter. I was already shocked with just the first page, and I could not believe it was only the first page. It contains a very high context because it was Alice journal. She wrote every single thing that she did and every single place that she went. She was an ordinary girl with the same problems that a teenager have at that age, besides she did not control all her emotions correctly. In some cases, I felt that we had some problems in common. Her story was very involved and the thoughts that she was having not enough

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