Go Ask Alice

“Go Ask Alice” is a book of a real teenage girl’s journal. She kept her journal to tell about her life dealing with drugs, sex, and running away from home. The book was claimed to be nonfiction to scare readers straight, but it is actually made up, however, this story could be true (Gershowitz, 2013). “Go Ask Alice” has been banned or challenged many times. When a book is challenged that means that a certain part of the book or parts of the book are considered obscene or a threat to security. “Go Ask Alice” has been challenged many times for different reasons. The book has mostly been challenged for the use of profanity, sexual content, and drug use. Go Ask Alice has been a target book for being challenged. It started when she, the main character,…

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…

Literacy Narrative Essay: Go Ask Alice All I have learned, I learned from books. It all started back in seventh grade. At that time of my life, I was having a physical and emotional problem. For instance, most the teenagers suffer from emotional and physical problems, because their body changes or because their body do not change, as well as they do not know what they want. During middle school, my life started to changed, my parents decided to move about three times a year, and that quickly…

“Go Ask Alice” The book I chose was “Go Ask Alice” by anonymous. It was published in March of 1971. There has been some controversy over the genera of the book, but it was classified as teen fiction, and has 215 pages. “Go Ask Alice” is about a teen girl whose name remains unknown throughout the book that gets mixed into the wrong group, and ends up addicted to drugs. She keeps a diary where she tells about all of her experiences, thoughts, and feeling, but the diary becomes her safe place,…

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…

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,…

The novel Go ask Alice, written by an Anonymous author is a story is based on a real diary, kept by a seemingly conventional teenager who turned into a suicidal drug addict. The presumed author of the diary, Alice, has a raw style and format of writing that fascinated me. The diary writing style allowed the book to show more real emotions, and did not hold back. It was as if Alice was talking to her best friend and thought that no one would see her diary. For me as a teenager, it was easy to…

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…

Critics have both praised and criticized how Alice’s addiction is presented in this novel. Some feel the story is unrealistic and was written to scare teenagers away from any drugs rather than present a realistic case against them. Some things that support this criticism as valid is the fact that the novels holds both LSD and Marijuana as very addictive substances. While this can be left up to opinion both these drugs are seen as less addicting than other drugs. Another criticism is the pace of…

unsuccessful, as a way to try and combat those addiction cases. One of the least effective portrayals of addiction was the novel Go Ask Alice, by author Beatrice Sparks (Google search: Go Ask Alice). This novel, in some very extreme case, could be plausible; but, all of the events that occurred to the main character seemed extremely outlandish and exaggerated. The different events in the story, such as prostitution, being drugged, going to a mental hospital, hitchhiking to Denver, and opening up…