Go Ask Alice (Pages 1-21)

Lily Tikijian
November 12, 2008
Literature Period 6
Mrs. Pfanschmidt

Go Ask Alice (Pages 1-21)

When starting to read this book, I was expecting to start off with a girl that was already hooked on drugs. Instead, the book starts off with a happy Alice. She seems to be pretty content with her life. She buys a diary to start recording her personal thoughts. Within the next couple pages she goes from content to miserable all because of a guy named Roger. He didn’t show up for their date and Alice has been in love with him for as long as she can remember and she thinks he doesn’t feel the same way. By the time her birthday roles around, she is in a state of depression. She has put on seven pounds and doesn’t do anything. Everything turns around for Alice, he dad gets a job so they get to move out of the town that she has grown to despise. Of course though, once she hears the word she is moving, things turn around. She goes out with a guy named Scott and Roger talks to her again. But, she still wants to move. Once they get to the new town, Alice hates it. She says, “It was the loneliest, coldest place in the world.” Alice has made no friends at school and she is miserable, she gains another fifteen pounds and hates how happy her family is here. They all have friends and people to be with unlike her. At the end of our reading, the only thing she is happy about is that she gets to spend the summer with her grandma. I think Alice is a very fragile girl, one thing goes wrong and she thinks her life is going to be over. I truly think she is bipolar, her mood is always changing.