"Fantasys Often Faces Reality." (
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Go Ask Alice is a must read book. I highly recommend it to teenagers and adults. This book is based on a true story about a young teenage girl who sought a life as a young drug user. The Author of this book is anonymous, but many people believed that her real name is not Alice, but is Beatrice Sparks. Well we do not know for sure, all we do know is that the publishers of this book probably received that title from Alice in wonderland, and it is compared to the drugs in the animated movie film. Go Ask Alice is a devastating true story about a young girls diary which is filled with her emotions, ideas, and thoughts which she shares emotionally through her diary.
We as the readers are able to enter her world and try to live through her experience but, we cannot have that same feeling, or even feel bad for her because we havent lived the life of this young girl. Alice is described in her diary to be a good- normal teenage girl with "Perfect" parents and a regular boring teenage life. She had good grades, but a low self esteem. She then went through multiple changes of adapting to a new school, a new house, and trying to meet new friends. Alice then becomes more lethargic and hopeless as she searches for her inward self.
Until one year she decides to live with her grand parents for the summer and she meets a few friends who brought her to a party, and drugged her with LSD. Even though she was unaware, she later than found out the truth that they had drugged her by playing a game which was known to be "Button, Button: Whos got the Button?" which they slipped the drug in her coke which is out of a random of 10 out of 14 picks. She later then wrote in her diary how it felt to be drugged and she liked it because she began to feel excepted, and away from peer pressure, and she began to long for other use of drugs. Eventually she got into more drugs such as crack, pot, heroin, and speed. She started to regret it but then she loved it. She met new friends, and became real hard into drugs. She ran-away with a girl named Chris and by herself with other friends two- to- three times, and she had sex with many different guys.
Later in the book it tells you how she began to notice the true meaning of her family as both her grandparents die, and her brother Tim, and sister Alex looks at her with pity, and her parents whose been there for her throughout all her life keeps an eye on her. She tries to live right and to stay away from drugs but as she remembers being a pusher around school and many kids begin to taunt her, and she becomes weaker and she tries to hold on to the people who cares about her such as her father, mother, her brother and sister and boyfriend who is away named Joel. She then one day was tricked into drugs by someone who put acid on a snack that she was eating (peanuts) and she beated herself badly when babysitting an infant and they put her into a mental hospital. She began to try to cooperate and she wished to god, and prayed to come out, and when she left the hospital after meeting a few friends at the asylum decided to no longer keep a diary because she will stay off the drugs.
We are then told in the epilogue that she died three weeks after deciding not to keep a diary. She probably died of overdose of drugs or premeditated overdose but no one actually knows. This is a great book and a reference to anyone who thinks taking drugs is cool, or a good way to "fit in," or to resolve problems. I think, that Go Ask Alice is a tremendously outrageous reality that people who live in a fantasy world of drugs eventually faces reality. Nothing is worsted than trying to re-live your life after living a life of what you thought was amazing, domineering and a wonderful experience that taught you how to live on your own, and which you thought taught you how to fly, and soar throughout the air, and be ecstatic, and without worry. But when you finally face the true untrustly world that holds so many people who are like you and who are far from you, you crash, you die, and you think that you cannot recover for you wished that you had never sought drugs, and you regretted ever taking it.
This wonderful story of a true teenage girls life teaches a moral which I think is: Fantasies Often Faces Reality and it is of a demonstration and illustration of her life to be expletory to those who read it. Again I will repeat that I HIGLY RECOMMEND you to read it. I am also a teenager and I know not to do drugs but, this book gave me the true answer on why not to do drugs.
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