Adolescence is a world all its own. This world, all the sugar-sweetness out there – the beautiful present wrapped in a promising taffeta dress, strawberry lip gloss and football games – is also a time when young people’s lives are plagued by recklessness, insecurities, drama and constant battles with authority. It is a hard time that seizes the docile minds of young people and molds them for better or for worse. From the slow-guy, varsity schoolboy fantasy football to the moth-eaten chastity, every youngster looks the same. troubles with romance, drugs and coming into their own.
Go Ask Alice is a diary written by an anonymous 15-year-old in the late 1960s. A young diarist named “Alice” begins the book with typical rudiments about her weight, messy hair, and no love life. As the book progresses, the reader observes “Alice’s” inert spiral, the rabbit’s mild anorexia, depression and drug use leading to inevitable death.
Go ask Alice, but is not a reason to let go. It is well believed that the book “Alice” universally creates a typical, beautiful, confused girl who cannot navigate the muddy waters. Adolescence. In the book, the author uses “Alice” as a pawn to illustrate the dangers of illicit sex and reckless drug use. The author is not an anonymous teenager, but rather the character is believed to have been concocted by the editor Beatrix Scintilla, so that the way the arc shines at the same time and marks this way of life. The very relatability of “Alice’s” writing, its highly sophisticated and predictable, “I-tell-you-yes,” ending all contribute to this notion.
Originally published in 1971, Go Ask Alice was devoured by young readers who delighted in this delightful, rambling story of a girl who likes a lot at the beginning of the book. Considering the novel was set in the psychadelic fall of the 60’s, when acid trips were as common a form of rebellious entertainment as your parent’s liquor cabinet by Jack Daniels , it is not surprising that the book was so well received. In fact, “Alice” first used drugs while playing “Button Button, Button, Who Got the Button Button?” “where LSD was randomly dropped into Coke bottles and then distributed to the party-goers.
However, despite its popularity, there are several reasons why “Alice” may not be what it claims to be. Perhaps one of the first tell-tale signs that “Alice” is a fraud is how she is very much related. For example: “Alice” is mentioned at the beginning of the book. Lost in love with boy name Roger, he thinks that “school is a nightmare” (2. ) and also with physical working on images, complaining that she has “gained fifteen pounds” and that her hair is “so sparse and greasy that she has to wash it every night” (17). Not only that, but she also feels extreme pressure from her family to “Be happy, put your hair up, be positive, smile, show your heart, be friendly” (17). What in modern world history has not experienced these movements and pressures to some degree? The generalizations at the beginning of the book make “Alice” seem like it could be anyone – from the bright, bubbly neighbor to the fly girl in your Science class or maybe even yourself. The back cover also boasts a dwarf version of Aladdin
Go Ask Alice is “a blog so honest you’ll think you know Alice – or someone like her.” It brings this idea further than Sparks playing “Alice” as a universal teenager with no solid characters of her own.
“Alice” is a relatable character who hooks young readers, but it’s a decent look at the nice, exciting part of the drugs that keeps them. the writing in this novel is percussive, complex and emotionally-charged rather someone intelligent and worldly.
For example, although “Alice” appears rather intelligent at the beginning of the novel, her fluency with words increases after her first drug experiences. He uses many adjectives, analogies and metaphors that are far beyond the year five above reading – not to mention writing – comprehension For example, “Alice” describes her first acid trip in vivid and flowing prose: “I looked at the magazine on the table and I could see it in 100 dimensions. It was so beautiful that I could not stand the sight of it and my eyes were closed. This kind of description, especially “like a drop on the side of the elevator,” sounds much more like a sentence-from-a-sentence that has been written and reviewed, not something jotted down in seconds in a teenage girl’s diary.
In several other places in that book, where “Alice’s” knowledge and talent seem to be expressed in words. He quickly explains his experience as, for example, “riding the stars in the milky way” (32). When his friend Chris moves to San Francisco, he describes his friend Sheila’s apartment vividly: [It was] like walking into a jewelry magazine. Two of the entire wall was a glass city overlooking the shot” and later, “… bright colored cushions were placed around a large gold and provided on an old coffee table” (65). Although it is possible that the girl can be accurate and accurate. They describe the place beautifully like this, which The writing here far exceeds the average teenager.
Not only is the prose in the novel eloquent, which may strike readers as deceptive. Once Sparks – or whoever the author is – has readers hooked, he begins to do what he intends to do with the novel. Begins to use “Alice” as a normal, average girl readers have already grown attached to exploring the rake of drug use. Throughout the 184 pages of the novel, “Alice” follows the traditional path of a drug user to an abuser. She will also cycle between using and staying clean. It is possible that this actually happened, but it is the predictability of the events that makes the plot ambiguous. Alice experiences almost every typical medical condition anyone has heard of, from being sold to young people, to running away, to rape and violence, to impending death;
Go Ask Alice leaves no fault unchallenged. For example, he sends his friend Bill to shoot a speeder in his arm after he first tries LSD, saying that he “remembered how badly [he] had been shot in the hospital” but “this is different” (. 32). This seems like a small jump to a sharp girl who only a week ago had never seen drugs in her life. Later in the book, after the heroine wakes up with two new friends – the first, no less – she is confused and says that “not later” she understood the dirty sonofbitches [the people who had given. [her-heroin] had taken, turned, kidnapped us and treated us sadly and cruelly” (68). There are no specifics and it seems rather cliché that the first heroin addicts are portrayed as bad rapists.
Alice” also sells drugs to kids games kids, is shunned by the kids at her school, when she tries to quit using, she finds solace in talking to the priest and finally becomes a paranoid mess who eats her “worms”. This all seems too stereotypical of drug users to be real. Alice” returns home and begins to connect with positive people school right Then “Alice” conveniently stops having a comment three weeks before her death.
Not only are the events in the story super-predictable and, if condensed, would read like a bad anti-marijuana/drug commercial, it’s the last page of the book that actually convinces readers that “Alice” never really existed. The epilogue states that the diarist died three weeks after the writing was set to rest. For example, her parents found her dead in their house after they went to the movies. Then the epilogue continues as a bad event Unsolved mysteries: “Was it accidental? A premeditated dose? No one knows, and somehow not that question is interesting.
This vague, cliché epilogue offers absolutely no insight into the actual person, the real girl behind “Alice.” Although “Alice’s” parents could request that personal information not be revealed, it seems less likely that “Alice” did not exist to reveal any information! Also, to clearly understand the reasons why many grammarians believe
Go Ask Alice is a work of fiction, it is important to note that Beatrice Sparks published many, many “anonymous” blogs during her life as a family therapist, according to Harper Collin’s Publisher’s website. no wonder
Go Ask Alice – which is a major seller – was the first.
Although Go Ask Alice follows a hackneyed script, cliché drug references and a slightly predictable plot, the writing contained within its pages is undeniably beautiful – and endearing. “Alice’s” destruction seems inevitable, but it is true that many witches suffer the same fate. As the epilogue states, this is especially important for medicine
they kill, and whether or not a real “Alice” ever existed is silly because there are other real “Alices” out there who need help not to end up like the one in the book. Whether the Sparks had written the book itself, or had merely published it, was to be clearly demonstrated. Instead of preaching to the audience, he decided to show how drugs can affect teenagers. Basically, Spark’s intention was to tell readers, “Don’t ask me about the dangers of drugs, just go Alice.”
