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Go Ask Alice Analysis

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Go Ask Alice Response Go Ask Alice is a bestseller about a 15-year-old girl who went to another city after she developed a drug habit. This book is based on the actual diary of a young drug user. In this book, the diarist, who we do not know the name of, was served a glass of cola at a party which contained LSD. After she used drugs, she lost her virginity while on LSD with other teenagers from the party. She had some other drug users as friends, and was raped while she was under the influence of the drug. The diarist needed money for more drugs so she prostituted. She tried to avoid the drugs, but failed. She was sent to hospital. Soon, she returned home and has a new life, together with her family and had some new friends… She did not need diary any more, and at the end of the diary she said to her diary, “when a person gets older she should be able to discuss her problems and thoughts with other people, instead of just with another part of herself as you have been to me”. Do you think it is a happy ending? In fact, it is not. The diarist died three weeks after she decided not to write diary any more. We do not know if it is accidental overdose or premeditated overdose. I would highly recommend this book to other Year 12 …show more content…

“She was only one of thousands of drug deaths that year”, no one would remember her if her diary was not published. Everyone only has one life, Year 12 students should figure out the value of life from this book. And also, I think this book told me another truth——if we have some serious problems which we cannot solve, the first thing we need to do is ask for help, instead of keeping them as secrets. Although we are nearly being an adult, we still do not have enough skills and abilities to rescue ourselves. In this book, the diarist said nothing to her parents, and she left home alone. Therefore, she could not have a good treatment. Community is the most important thing between person to

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