Go Ask Alice

The story Go Ask Alice is a diary of a teenager girl. She is just a regular girl in high school. In the beginning, Alice finds out that her family is moving, she does not like it because she feels isolated now. But over the summer, she returns home to her grandparents house. During that summer she gets invited to a party, where she unwillingly ingests LSD in her drink. After this incident, Alice gets into more drugs like marijuana and amphetamines. After a while, she has a pregnancy scare, and moves back to the new town to get a fresh start; which does not work out because Alice falls into the drug crowd in her new town also. Once falling into this group, she starts dating a drug dealer who ends up using her; and she turns him into the police. Alice runs away with her new friend Chris, and when she comes back, her family welcomes her. But Alice is having a difficult time keeping away from the drugs, so she decides to run away again, and ends up living on the streets. But thankfully, her fear for her family eventually helps her return home. When she finally returns home, Alice promises to stay completely off of drugs. In the end, she gets into a new relationship, and is in her fathers university; and with her life back on track she decides to stop keeping a diary.

Summary

Beatrice Sparks is a family and adolescent therapist who edited the diary that formed the basis for Go Ask Alice, and has since edited many diaries on topics such as gangs, AIDS, and teen pregnancy in the 1988 Annie's Baby. She lives in Provo, UT.

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Beatrice Sparks

Alice: • main character• teenage girl• tries to just fit in• goes through

drug addiction

Main Character

• An external conflict is a conflict with a person and an outside force. The external conflict in the story is the drug dealers pushing Alice to do all the things that they made her do.

• An internal conflict is a conflict mentally with yourself. The internal conflict would be Alice fighting against drug addiction throughout the story.

Conflicts

• Representing something by a symbol.

• An example of symbolism in the story is the maggots and worms.

• To show or to indicate before hand.

• There are no examples of foreshadowing in this story.

Symbol Foreshadowing

I would recommend this book because I think it is a very interesting book and also I think the book teaches many lessons. After reading this you have a better understanding of what drugs and other things can do to you. It is a very good book for anyone my age to read.

Recommendation