Go Ask Alice-Anonymous 5.08
For my virtual school class Free Choice Blog Assessment 5.08 I decided to read Go Ask Alice by an Anonymous person .This books organizational pattern is in chronological order from the beginning to the end.I actually read the whole book in about a week.This book is still knows to be a diary of a real anonymous teenage girl who was addicted to drugs.In my research I found out that the diary was from 1971. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes non fiction books, mystery and is an open minded person.
I believe that the authors purpose was to just keep her thoughts written down and actually have some sort of communication and be able to hide her secrets and emotions.This story is in a chronological order starting from the beginning to the end with the writers death.
Summary/Self response
This book started of with a 15 year old girl keeping a diary.From the beginning of chapter one she introduces her thoughts and personal life at home and school.She records her thoughts and concerns on her weight,crushes,sexuality,and her problems getting along with her parents.She talks about her father who is a college professor was asked to move somewhere else and she was optimistic about it.She felt like a loner in the new school and she didn't fit in.Her and a girl named Beth became best friends but then Beth was sent to a summer camp.There was a point where she moved with her grandparents i the story and met with and old friend Jill.The girl who wrote the diary was invited to a house party.At that party they handed out sodas(which some were laced with LSD) and she unwittingly drank some with LSD.After that party she still communicated with the people from that night and started willingly doing more drugs and she ended up losing her virginity while on LSD.She ended up good friends (very fast) with someone named Chris and were being used by 2 college guys who were drug dealers.They would sell drugs for them.When they discovered they were being used they moved to San Francisco.Chris got a job at a boutique and hired by a women named Shelia.Shelia ended up inviting them to a party which they ended up taking drugs.Shelia and her boy friend introduced heroin to the diarist and Chris and raped both of the girls...In the end after being on and off drugs she was found dead by her parents.I like this book and enjoyed reading it as well, i was hoping for a better ending but its just the way it turned out to be. :)
Wow, this book looks intense! I would love to hear more about it.
ReplyDeleteYes, this book is very intense. You should totally read it. Its an anonymous book which the whole idea of it is exciting. A real diary from a girl, sounds like anything anyone would like to read. Its about a troubled girl who gets herself into wrong situations including drugs and leaving her own home at a young age. You think you will enjoy reading this?
DeleteI really think I would love to read this book but at the same time feel bad and depressed because of all the bad things you say is happening to the other. Especially knowing that is a real diary and that a teenager really went trough all that suffering, it really breaks my heart. I would definitely cry if i ever read that book. Did you cry?
ReplyDeleteActually I did cry a little bit. I feel like the author had so much more in her to do with her life. Every bad decision I felt like screaming at the book trying to tell her to not make another bad decision but obviously it didn't work. The most overall shocking part will be when she starts taking really hardcore drugs... by then I knew that she wouldn't be able to recuperate from that.
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