Book Summary: Go Ask Alice

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Go ask Alice is book written in diary form. The author is unknown. The main character is Alice, which is the one who write the diary. Throughout the diary, Alice talks about the challenges with she faces and how she copes with them.
Alice’s dad, who is a college professor, takes an offer to teach at a different college. Alice and her family have to move to a new town at the beginning of the next year. Alice has problems fitting in at her new school, but soon makes a new friend, Beth. Alice goes to live with her grandparents for the summer, and is reunited with an old friend, Jill. Jill takes Alice to a party and Alice not thinking, drops LSD and has her first drug experiment. Even though Alice was very fascinated by the drug and craving more,
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Alice and Chris are both unhappy with their families. Becoming friends with Chris, Alice is become very popular and starts using drugs in school. Alice meets Chris’s friend Richie. Richie is a college boy and manages to get Alice Hooked on Marijuana. Alice is talked into selling drugs. Ted, who is Chris’s boyfriend, takes some of the money the girls make dealing the drugs to help pay for rent and to buy his own drugs. One day, Alice finds Chris, Richie and Ted having sex with each other and they run away to California. Alice eventually finds a cop and turns Richie in and makes a pact with Chris to stay clean. Chris and Alice move into a small apartment together. For a good while, Chris and Alice do stay clean and hold jobs. Alice is a custom jeweler and Chris gets a job in a boutique where she meets Shelia. Shelia invites the girls to a party one night where Chris and Alice found their old ways back into drugs, only this time the girls tried heroin and got raped by Shelia’s boyfriend.
Alice and Chris decide to start over again by moving into a new apartment in Berkeley. Alice starts to miss her family and returns to them for the holidays. Being around her family and old friends made her realize her mistakes and she begins school and resists drugs. After Alice has finally seen the light again Chris manages to pressure her back into smoking marijuana which led Alice right back to drugs again. One day, the police come and search Chris’s house while
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She says she has worms that are eating her alive. She has chewed her fingers to the bone and clawed her face. Someone had dosed with LSD with the chocolate covered peanuts she had been eating while she was babysitting . Alice is accused of being on drugs again and is sent to an insane alyssum. Her father tells her that when the case was taken to court, a girl named Jan and one more girl said that Alice had been selling drugs and was still on them. Life in the alyssum drains Alice, was in the alyssum for a while before her dad came to bring a happy letter from Joel and her dad tells her Jan has retracted her statement. Alice is set free and returns

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