Go Ask Alice, an anonymous diary suposably written by a 15-teen year old girl. As the girl acquires the journal, she quickly becomes a part of a world filled with drugs, sex, and addiction. Is there a deeper life lesson inside the pages of this teenage girls personal accounts and experiences? Many people think so as the book became widely popular with teenage readers after it was published in 1971. Between the years 1968 and 1970, when this book is estimated by most to take place, drugs and other substances and addictions were know as a problem in our country. For being addicted to drugs destroyed alices life, after only one accidental use. Her story and its awareness begins with a simple purchase.
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The author’s perspective on drugs changes several times throughout the book, giving it the: on again off again, theme of an addict. For the significance of the drugs in the story is not what they are or what they do to just anybody. But simply who they are affecting and how they are affecting her. some might say if the journal was written by a middle aged man or a older seemingly less passionate women that it would be less effective and therefore less desirable to read. Keeping this in mind some might believe that when someone is affected by drugs so early on in their lives resulting in such devastating consequences it becomes more of a “problem”. This may be, by the fact that the young author of this book had yet to make any important life decisions, or had a lack of life experiences until she became addicted to drugs. Some might argue that it was her decision to do the drugs, just like it’s anyone’s decision at any point in age. The fact that this story was based on a young girl is not as significant as the fact that thousands of people each year die from drug use. As it clearly states in the end of the book that it does not matter how she died but that many people die from drugs each year, regardless of who it is or how it happened, it could be anybody. Regardless of what some people may or may not believe “Alice’s” addiction to drugs is the underlying root that …show more content…
when reading the story, one might notice different patterns in the girls writing; starting diary entries after she has done drugs with a regret yet rejoicing tone that is followed by her description of how that particular drug affected her and how she came upon using it. By describing how much she loved using the drugs but also how greatly disgusted and ashamed she was by them, and that she wanted to never use them again. This presents itself as her awareness that what she was doing to herself was bad, and that she did not understand why she wanted the drugs or why she was doing them other than that fact that they made her feel good, or “high”. This very aspect of the story; the fact that she did not want to be hooked on drugs is what made it very unique and significant. By reading her description of events the reader can understand that the author is educated and wants help and understands in the end that what has happened to her will only further her life in the feature. Yet she is continuously consumed by this addiction to drugs. This is relatable to the fact that Alice wants to be a psychologist or social working. She wanted to provide help for other young teens and understand why and what has happened to her own life. twisting the meaning of her writing into something other than a
The easily susceptible teenage girl …show more content…
The author’s perspective on drugs changes several times throughout the book, giving it the: on again off again, theme of an addict. For the significance of the drugs in the story is not what they are or what they do to just anybody. But simply who they are affecting and how they are affecting her. some might say if the journal was written by a middle aged man or a older seemingly less passionate women that it would be less effective and therefore less desirable to read. Keeping this in mind some might believe that when someone is affected by drugs so early on in their lives resulting in such devastating consequences it becomes more of a “problem”. This may be, by the fact that the young author of this book had yet to make any important life decisions, or had a lack of life experiences until she became addicted to drugs. Some might argue that it was her decision to do the drugs, just like it’s anyone’s decision at any point in age. The fact that this story was based on a young girl is not as significant as the fact that thousands of people each year die from drug use. As it clearly states in the end of the book that it does not matter how she died but that many people die from drugs each year, regardless of who it is or how it happened, it could be anybody. Regardless of what some people may or may not believe “Alice’s” addiction to drugs is the underlying root that …show more content…
when reading the story, one might notice different patterns in the girls writing; starting diary entries after she has done drugs with a regret yet rejoicing tone that is followed by her description of how that particular drug affected her and how she came upon using it. By describing how much she loved using the drugs but also how greatly disgusted and ashamed she was by them, and that she wanted to never use them again. This presents itself as her awareness that what she was doing to herself was bad, and that she did not understand why she wanted the drugs or why she was doing them other than that fact that they made her feel good, or “high”. This very aspect of the story; the fact that she did not want to be hooked on drugs is what made it very unique and significant. By reading her description of events the reader can understand that the author is educated and wants help and understands in the end that what has happened to her will only further her life in the feature. Yet she is continuously consumed by this addiction to drugs. This is relatable to the fact that Alice wants to be a psychologist or social working. She wanted to provide help for other young teens and understand why and what has happened to her own life. twisting the meaning of her writing into something other than a