Essential Questions: Go Ask Alice
How can a person’s decisions and actions change his/her life? A person’s decisions and actions can negatively and positively affect that person which drastically changes their life. In the novel, Go Ask Alice written by Anonymous, it shares the story of a troubled teenage girl who wrote about the decisions and actions she made that altered her life. After Alice starts using her drugs, she starts to make bad decisions which only leads her down a road of more bad decisions. Not only did the decisions affect herself , but also the most important people around her. Alice writes into her diary after she decides to run away to San Francisco with her friend, “Chris and I sat around the park all day thinking things …show more content…
In the novel, Go Ask Alice written by Anonymous, it shares how a teenage girl is pressured into drugs which leads her to becoming dependent on drugs to function her everyday life. In the beginning of the novel, Alice begins to start using after somebody spiked her drink which leads her to becoming addicted. After needing drugs to function in her everyday life, she is given something by a friend that continues to help her function, “ I’ve been feeling great all afternoon, feeling like living again… The only problem is that now it’s night and I can’t seem to turn the energy off… I guess I’ll just have to waste one of my good sleeping pills to stop it. That’s life” (53). Alice begins to become dependent on drugs which continues to negatively affect her life. Her addiction leads to bad decisions and results in bad consequences. Alice realizes the decisions she makes and decides that she has to stop. She runs away hoping to end this addiction. After running away, she stays clean for awhile but falls back into her addiction, “ Anyone who says pot and acid are not addicting is a damn, stupid , raving idiot , unenlightened fool… After you’ve had it , there isn’t even life without drugs… And I’m glad I’m back” (97). Although Alice tries to stop her addiction, she relapses and continues to use. Substance abuse negatively affects Alice’s life but because she is blinded by drugs, she doesn’t come to realize it. When Alice became addicted, she stayed addicted. Just because she was clean, doesn’t mean she wasn’t thinking about using. Later, Alice is caught and put on probation but that doesn’t stop her from using. Alice writes, “ Jackie slipped me a couple of co-pilots in English when she passed out the test papers. Tonight after everyone goes to bed I’ll get high all by myself. I can hardly wait!” (102). It seems that Alice will stop at nothing to get her drugs.
How can a person’s decisions and actions change his/her life? A person’s decisions and actions can negatively and positively affect that person which drastically changes their life. In the novel, Go Ask Alice written by Anonymous, it shares the story of a troubled teenage girl who wrote about the decisions and actions she made that altered her life. After Alice starts using her drugs, she starts to make bad decisions which only leads her down a road of more bad decisions. Not only did the decisions affect herself , but also the most important people around her. Alice writes into her diary after she decides to run away to San Francisco with her friend, “Chris and I sat around the park all day thinking things …show more content…
In the novel, Go Ask Alice written by Anonymous, it shares how a teenage girl is pressured into drugs which leads her to becoming dependent on drugs to function her everyday life. In the beginning of the novel, Alice begins to start using after somebody spiked her drink which leads her to becoming addicted. After needing drugs to function in her everyday life, she is given something by a friend that continues to help her function, “ I’ve been feeling great all afternoon, feeling like living again… The only problem is that now it’s night and I can’t seem to turn the energy off… I guess I’ll just have to waste one of my good sleeping pills to stop it. That’s life” (53). Alice begins to become dependent on drugs which continues to negatively affect her life. Her addiction leads to bad decisions and results in bad consequences. Alice realizes the decisions she makes and decides that she has to stop. She runs away hoping to end this addiction. After running away, she stays clean for awhile but falls back into her addiction, “ Anyone who says pot and acid are not addicting is a damn, stupid , raving idiot , unenlightened fool… After you’ve had it , there isn’t even life without drugs… And I’m glad I’m back” (97). Although Alice tries to stop her addiction, she relapses and continues to use. Substance abuse negatively affects Alice’s life but because she is blinded by drugs, she doesn’t come to realize it. When Alice became addicted, she stayed addicted. Just because she was clean, doesn’t mean she wasn’t thinking about using. Later, Alice is caught and put on probation but that doesn’t stop her from using. Alice writes, “ Jackie slipped me a couple of co-pilots in English when she passed out the test papers. Tonight after everyone goes to bed I’ll get high all by myself. I can hardly wait!” (102). It seems that Alice will stop at nothing to get her drugs.