Go Ask Alice
Books often are written about real events and happenings so that other people can understand the experiences that they can relate and learn from of the author. Non-fiction materials gives people who read them an opportunity to show others that many events and happenings are shared on many levels. In other words, no one is alone when it comes to similar experiences. In the book, “Go Ask Alice,” teenagers have an example of problems that they share with the main character of the book, such as drugs and alcohol abuse. Alice is the diary of a girl who recorded her daily activities about what she did in her life. In the beginning she started as an innocent young girl who was a loner and never tried drugs. However, as time went on through her diary entries, she had tried every type of drug and became a dealer. She ran away from home and did not go to
school. The book “Go Ask Alice” is a very important book for teenagers as it helps them to identify with Alice in her teen years. It tells them about the danger of drugs, and how drug addictions affect the individual and those close to them.
Most teenagers are able to relate to this book because they have had that type of experience in their life, with drugs and alcohol. As a teen, you deal with a lot of different things such as; peer pressure, drugs, parties, boys, weight, your appearance and friends without even realizing it. “Scott Lossee asked me to go to the movies Friday. I’ve lost ten pounds.”(Alice, 7) “Last night was the night friend! I finally smoked pot and it was even greater than I expected!” (Alice, 56) A lot of things Alice faced are the same things a lot of teens are facing today. This helps them relate to her and give them an outlook of what harm they are doing to themselves. Alice wrote in her diary daily, this is something very personal that some people have to express their problems when they have no one to turn to, “Oh Diary it was miserable! It was the...
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