Sunday, February 27, 2011

Go Ask Alice pgs 1-50- Annonymous

Go Ask Alice is an actual diary of a teenage girl who started using hard drugs. She is seemingly normal, and does not use drugs at the begging of the journal, but then someone spikes her soda with acid, and after that it's just one big spiral down. For a little while she doesn't do drugs, she goes to live with her grandparents, and then she starts partying again. She just wants to be accepted, and for her parents to understand her, like most teenagers do.

This whole book is so raw. It's weird to think some girl actually wrote this. Although, no one knows who she is, her story is still just as interesting. I'm assuming from the publishing copyright of the book, the way she talks, and from other cultural references, that the girl lived in the late fifties to early sixties during the writing of this journal. She is just dealing with normal teenage stuff. I'm eager to get to know this girl more.

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