The Banning Of Go Ask Alice

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Books, films, news and more! So many ways to get the word out there. But if it is politically unacceptable, considered indecent, or even a threat to society it needs to be prohibited. The novel Go Ask Alice by anonymous is an intense book about a fifteen-year-old girl who gets mixed up in the wrong crowd and wants so badly to fit in she does not care that her "friends" take hardcore drugs. She even started taking them herself. This novel without a doubt needs to be banned. It is not only considered obscene but can also be a threat to society. This is because it would allow young children and teenagers to get the idea in their heads that drugs make everything better for the time being and it is a good way to run away from your problems mentally.
Alice goes back to her old town to spend some time with her grandparents for the summer when she ran into Jill Peters at the store. Jill invites her to a party and wanting so bad to fit in Alice goes. They started playing a party game called button, button. It sounds like an innocent game, but it was not fully described before being played. Later, that night Alice felt as though her senses were alive when she states, "I sorta asked Jill what happened, and she said that 10 out of the 14 bottles of coke had LSD in them and, "button, button," no one knew just who would wind up with
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The book Go Ask Alice should be banned because it talks so much about the evil of the world. Drugs. Within the novel it shows just how much it ruined this fifteen-year-old girl's life. Do you want to promote the failure of our future? because that is what you are doing by allowing this book within the schools where young innocent children are being set up by how this book describes how great all the drugs are when 90% of the drugs that were tired are

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