Go Ask Alice final Copy
Go Ask Alice, a book portraying an unnamed fifteen-year-old girl, is presented to us as she really was, with observations and experiences both dramatic and insignificant, as her life unfolds naturally. The author allows Alice to speak in her own highly plausible language, with a first person account that makes her experiences, foreign to some readers, sympathetic and realistic. In the book she recounts struggles with issues such as weight gain, sexuality, and social acceptance. Most critics consider it to be the work of its editor, Beatrice Sparks. In this paper I plan to discuss why this book is banned and why it should be banned.
This book addresses numerous subjects that are considered taboo. …show more content…
This is the point where the title character gets deeper into the glamorized drug lifestyle, including prostitution, rape and tries heroin for the first time. She returns home to an accepting family, and focuses on school. Unable to handle the pressure at home, she hitchhikes to Colorado and Oregon and stays in a drug induced haze most of the time. She again falls into the hippie drug lifestyle trading drugs for sex.
The title character once again tries to start a new life at home with her family. She focuses on her school work, even studying at the university library where she meets a new friend, Joel. Joel is a positive influence on the title character’s life. He is described as “wise and spiritual” but helps her understand that she can rise above her circumstances. She is excited about her new babysitting job for Mrs. Larson. This starts her downward spiral towards death caused by acid laced peanuts left by an unknown person landing her in the hospital, soon after, an asylum. Three weeks after her last diary entry she died from an overdose.
Go Ask Alice should be banned because of explicit references to drugs, sex, and rape. The book also has references to runaways and prostitution. It makes profanity, a drug lifestyle, experimentation with drugs and sex seem okay. The ending seems to make suicide the only way to end her struggles with life and
Go Ask Alice, a book portraying an unnamed fifteen-year-old girl, is presented to us as she really was, with observations and experiences both dramatic and insignificant, as her life unfolds naturally. The author allows Alice to speak in her own highly plausible language, with a first person account that makes her experiences, foreign to some readers, sympathetic and realistic. In the book she recounts struggles with issues such as weight gain, sexuality, and social acceptance. Most critics consider it to be the work of its editor, Beatrice Sparks. In this paper I plan to discuss why this book is banned and why it should be banned.
This book addresses numerous subjects that are considered taboo. …show more content…
This is the point where the title character gets deeper into the glamorized drug lifestyle, including prostitution, rape and tries heroin for the first time. She returns home to an accepting family, and focuses on school. Unable to handle the pressure at home, she hitchhikes to Colorado and Oregon and stays in a drug induced haze most of the time. She again falls into the hippie drug lifestyle trading drugs for sex.
The title character once again tries to start a new life at home with her family. She focuses on her school work, even studying at the university library where she meets a new friend, Joel. Joel is a positive influence on the title character’s life. He is described as “wise and spiritual” but helps her understand that she can rise above her circumstances. She is excited about her new babysitting job for Mrs. Larson. This starts her downward spiral towards death caused by acid laced peanuts left by an unknown person landing her in the hospital, soon after, an asylum. Three weeks after her last diary entry she died from an overdose.
Go Ask Alice should be banned because of explicit references to drugs, sex, and rape. The book also has references to runaways and prostitution. It makes profanity, a drug lifestyle, experimentation with drugs and sex seem okay. The ending seems to make suicide the only way to end her struggles with life and