Alice: A Brief Summary

The story starts out with a fifteen year old girl writing in a diary that she had just bought. Her name was never actually stated since she’s writing the journal about her own life, but as a reader, I could only assume that her name was Alice. When she first got her journal she only wrote about topics like school, boys, and fitting in. Her family eventually ends up moving to a different town after her dad gets a new job. She’s worried about making new friends at her new school and fitting in. When she first gets to her school she doesn’t make any friends and starts to get depressed. She stops caring about how she looks and rarely showers. Since her parents see that she’s depressed they tell Alice that she’s allowed to go and stay with her grandparents …show more content…
Richie and Alice starts dating and he gets her started on marijuana. After dating Richie for a while Alice starts to sell marijuana around the school for Richie. One day Alice walks in on Riche cheating on her so she runs away from home with her friend Chris. When they get to San francisco they become friends with a girl named Sheila who gets them started on heroin. After taking heroin for a while Alice finds out that Sheila friends have been raping her and she swears off of drugs forever. She goes home and asks her parents for help. She does good for a while until she decides to have some marijuana. While trying it she gets caught by the police. She continues using marijuana behind her parents back and runs away to Oregon. She continues to do drugs without her family knowing until she had enough. She goes back home where her parents help her with her problems. While she’s at home she struggles with having flashbacks of times when she was on drugs. Eventually someone drugged Alice with Chocolate covered peanuts that were traced with LSD causing her to go in rage and think that maggots were eating her alive. She was hospitalized after this and got help. In the hospital she gets visits from her family and friends who slowly help her to get better. In the epilogue part of the book, we find out that Alice overdoses on an unknown drug and