Lily Tikijian
December 6, 2008
Literature Period 6
Mrs. Pfanschmidt
Go Ask Alice (Pages 146-213)
These pages of reading were by far the most interesting of the whole book. They were just she moved, she did more drugs, she went back home. There was more of a story to it. In the beginning of the reading, Alice is starting to like Joel a lot. She really thinks he is a great guy and maybe he could be the guy for her that could help her face her fears and get over her past. I think he could be that guy for her. While Alice is babysitting, the girl that is giving Alice a lot of trouble, Jan, came by and said she needed to babysit because she needed some money. Alice stepped it up and called her parents because Jan was completely stoned. Jan was really mad at Alice and said she would get her back for calling her parents and letting them find out she does drugs. Jan starts telling people rumors about Alice and now Alice can’t even walk down the hallway without getting laughed at or talked about. Not only is Alice having a hard school life, one night her grandma gets sick. Alice thinks she doesn’t want to go on with out her husband anymore. Someone put a burning roach in Alice’s locker and she got called into the principles office anymore and doesn’t tell him who she thinks it was. I don’t know why she doesn’t tell him, I would defiantly tell him if I was her because I would want them to get suspended or get in trouble. Alice’s grandma died. Not only has she lost all of her friends, now she has lost her grandpa and her grandma. All Alice can think about is her grandma getting eaten by worms, I still don’t understand what is with Alice and this whole worm thing. Joel was there for Alice and he called her and came over and helped her get through it. I really think he is a great guy. Jan is really hurting Alice. She keeps blaming her for things she didn’t do. Today Alice was stopped by a guy on the street her pulled her into the bushes and tried to kiss her, things just couldn’t get any worse for her. Things start looking up the closer her and Joel get. On July 7th, Alice was babysitting and the her diary goes back to the (?) dates. It turns out that someone put acid in chocolate covered peanuts that Alice ate while she was babysitting. Alice says she remembers getting dizzy and trying to call her mom but she couldn’t dial the numbers. She says she doesn’t really remember what happened next but she remember her grandpa trying to help her but he was a skeleton and covered in maggots and worms. She says she was trying to kill them by smacking them with her hands and jumping on them but they just kept multiplying. Then they came to her and they started climbing up. This is when Alice started ripping off her skin and huge chunks of her hair. Alice parents believe her that someone tripped her. Alice parents did decide she needed to go to a mental hospital to try and get passed this. Alice finally learns the whole story about what happened. The neighbor heard her screaming and ran over and she thought that Alice had gone insane so she locked her in the closet and ran to check on the baby, who was fine. By the time she got back, Alice had hurt herself very badly. She has a brain concussion and a fractured skull. Alice is scared out of her mind when she goes to the mental institution. She is locked in a little room and has to earn the right to go to school. She makes a friend Babbie who has an even worse story then Alice. Alice was only in the institution from July 23- August 8th so she didn’t suffer as much as the other kids in the institution. Alice is so pleased to be home. Because of all that has happened, Alice parents decided to pack up and move. In the new town, Alice starts making friends and she is a lot happier. This whole time, even when she was in the hospital and in the mental hospital, Joel has been writing her every single day. When Alice’s birthday roles around, her parents surprise her by having Joel come visit her. He gives her a ring as a present, and Alice swears she is never going to take it off. Alice is so happy. She is going to parties, she has friends, and she has Joel along with a loving and caring family. Her life is going so well she decides that she doesn’t have to start a new diary. She thinks that diary’s are great when you are young but when you get older you should be able to discuss your problems with other people. “I hope so, for you are my dearest friend and I shall always thank you for sharing my tears, my heartache, and my struggles and strife’s and my joys and happiness. Its all been good in its own special way, I guess. See ya.” She wrote this on September 21st. That is the last thing we ever hear from Alice. Her parents came home three weeks later from a movie, to find Alice dead. They called the police and the hospital but there was nothing they could do. I thought Alice would have died earlier in the book, not when she was happy and loving life. This was huge surprise to me and I feel terrible for her family and friends.
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Go Ask Alice (Pages 101-146)
Lily Tikijian
December 2, 2008
Literature Period 6
Mrs. Pfanschmidt
Go Ask Alice (Pages 101-146)
Alice has become so addicted to drugs that now she is even taking them in the middle of class. It says she was popping pills in the middle of her English class. That is just screwed up, that someone is so addicted to something that they have to take them during a class. I can’t even imagine being that addicted to something. She is also now getting high by herself in her room at night, what is the point of all of it? All of a sudden the diary stops and Alice ends up in Denver sleeping on a park bench at night. For like most of the entries they aren’t recorded very well. There aren’t any dates and the writing is quick a brief. This makes us believe she was on more drugs then ever and couldn’t concentrate enough to write. She is becoming more and more bipolar. One minute she hates Denver and she wants to go home and then two sentences later she is loving it. She attends a “rally” where there are drugs and alcohol everywhere. Alice meets a girl named Doris at a shelter and Doris becomes her new “roommate.” Doris gets really upset and sad all the time when they run out of drugs. The rest of the entries in this section are just like about how she has run out of drugs then she is back on them and “Oh, how wonderful it is to be stoned.” Its insane, I can’t stand reading about it. Alice goes back to a church and gets the priest to call her parents. Even after she calls them she spends a couple more weeks out on the streets. Alice decides that she is either going to commit suicide or she is going to devote her life to helping others that have been in her same situation. Alice runs out of pages in her old diary and starts a new one. It begins when she has decided to return home. She is so happy to be home and excited to get started with a new chapter in her life. She has decided to devote her life to helping kids just like her. Once again, Alice has started school. She is starting to focus more on her schoolwork and family and less on drugs and her past. Everyone at her school has become mean and nasty towards her and I don’t understand why. I mean, she is trying to stay off drugs, is that a good thing? Alice is so terribly lonely and she has no friends and to make matters worse, he grandpa has a stroke. Then he dies within the next couple days. When things start to look really bad, Alice makes a new friend Joel. I think Joel is really going to help her through her problems.
December 2, 2008
Literature Period 6
Mrs. Pfanschmidt
Go Ask Alice (Pages 101-146)
Alice has become so addicted to drugs that now she is even taking them in the middle of class. It says she was popping pills in the middle of her English class. That is just screwed up, that someone is so addicted to something that they have to take them during a class. I can’t even imagine being that addicted to something. She is also now getting high by herself in her room at night, what is the point of all of it? All of a sudden the diary stops and Alice ends up in Denver sleeping on a park bench at night. For like most of the entries they aren’t recorded very well. There aren’t any dates and the writing is quick a brief. This makes us believe she was on more drugs then ever and couldn’t concentrate enough to write. She is becoming more and more bipolar. One minute she hates Denver and she wants to go home and then two sentences later she is loving it. She attends a “rally” where there are drugs and alcohol everywhere. Alice meets a girl named Doris at a shelter and Doris becomes her new “roommate.” Doris gets really upset and sad all the time when they run out of drugs. The rest of the entries in this section are just like about how she has run out of drugs then she is back on them and “Oh, how wonderful it is to be stoned.” Its insane, I can’t stand reading about it. Alice goes back to a church and gets the priest to call her parents. Even after she calls them she spends a couple more weeks out on the streets. Alice decides that she is either going to commit suicide or she is going to devote her life to helping others that have been in her same situation. Alice runs out of pages in her old diary and starts a new one. It begins when she has decided to return home. She is so happy to be home and excited to get started with a new chapter in her life. She has decided to devote her life to helping kids just like her. Once again, Alice has started school. She is starting to focus more on her schoolwork and family and less on drugs and her past. Everyone at her school has become mean and nasty towards her and I don’t understand why. I mean, she is trying to stay off drugs, is that a good thing? Alice is so terribly lonely and she has no friends and to make matters worse, he grandpa has a stroke. Then he dies within the next couple days. When things start to look really bad, Alice makes a new friend Joel. I think Joel is really going to help her through her problems.
Go Ask Alice (Pages 51-101)
Lily Tikijian
November 25, 2008
Literature Period 6
Mrs. Pfanschmidt
Go Ask Alice (Pages 51- 101)
Alice has defiantly hit an all time low in the beginning of this section. She is now going to see a doctor to get drugs. She wants sleeping pills so she tells the doctor that she can’t sleep. That is about the lowest thing I think someone can do. She says, “I guess I’ll have to waste one of my good sleeping pills to stop it. That’s life.” Life isn’t about sleeping pills or drugs. Alice’s friend, Chris, gets Alice a job and Alice thinks she is on top of the world. I think this a perfect time for Alice to start turning her life around. She is one of the most popular girls at school, she has a job, and she has a loving and supporting family. She doesn’t realize how good she has it. Instead of taking a turn for the better, Alice takes a turn for the worst. She now has to take Dexies just to get through the school day and work and now she is using tranquilizers to deal with her home life. To make matters worse, she tries pot for the first time and she says it was even greater then she expected. Alice even starts to think about quitting her job because she “doesn’t have time to do the things she wants to do.” Like hang out with her drug dealing boyfriend and doing more drugs. She is apparently so in love Richie that she can’t see straight. Alice and Chris start drug pushing to earn extra money. Just when Alice is madly in love with Richie, she walks in on Richie and his roommate having sex and she is crushed. She and Chris decide that they are going to run away to San Francisco. They run away at 4:30am to board a bus to take them to San Francisco. When they arrive they buy a crappy apartment and go job hunting. Alice takes a job at a lingerie store and Chris finally finds a job at a great little shop. Alice gets more and more homesick with each passing day. She eventually quits her job and tries to find a more interesting one. She takes a job in a hotel selling jewelry. Her boss, Mr. Mellani, becomes more like a father figure to her then a boss. Chris and Alice even go and eat dinner and spend time with him and his family. Both girls are now eighteen and they start getting invited to fancy parties where they do drugs. They both get so trapped up in the scene of the party life. They decide they must leave. They find a new apartment close to Berkeley. By December 23rd both girls decide that they have to go home. Life starts to look a little brighter for Alice. At least she is home with a caring family, food on the table, and a roof over her head. Alice and Chris both return back to school and Alice gets pressure from a guy named Joe about her old “drug pushing” life style and it drives her crazy. She starts connecting with Lane and he gets her connected with more drugs. This is all her life is: drugs, drugs, and more drugs.
November 25, 2008
Literature Period 6
Mrs. Pfanschmidt
Go Ask Alice (Pages 51- 101)
Alice has defiantly hit an all time low in the beginning of this section. She is now going to see a doctor to get drugs. She wants sleeping pills so she tells the doctor that she can’t sleep. That is about the lowest thing I think someone can do. She says, “I guess I’ll have to waste one of my good sleeping pills to stop it. That’s life.” Life isn’t about sleeping pills or drugs. Alice’s friend, Chris, gets Alice a job and Alice thinks she is on top of the world. I think this a perfect time for Alice to start turning her life around. She is one of the most popular girls at school, she has a job, and she has a loving and supporting family. She doesn’t realize how good she has it. Instead of taking a turn for the better, Alice takes a turn for the worst. She now has to take Dexies just to get through the school day and work and now she is using tranquilizers to deal with her home life. To make matters worse, she tries pot for the first time and she says it was even greater then she expected. Alice even starts to think about quitting her job because she “doesn’t have time to do the things she wants to do.” Like hang out with her drug dealing boyfriend and doing more drugs. She is apparently so in love Richie that she can’t see straight. Alice and Chris start drug pushing to earn extra money. Just when Alice is madly in love with Richie, she walks in on Richie and his roommate having sex and she is crushed. She and Chris decide that they are going to run away to San Francisco. They run away at 4:30am to board a bus to take them to San Francisco. When they arrive they buy a crappy apartment and go job hunting. Alice takes a job at a lingerie store and Chris finally finds a job at a great little shop. Alice gets more and more homesick with each passing day. She eventually quits her job and tries to find a more interesting one. She takes a job in a hotel selling jewelry. Her boss, Mr. Mellani, becomes more like a father figure to her then a boss. Chris and Alice even go and eat dinner and spend time with him and his family. Both girls are now eighteen and they start getting invited to fancy parties where they do drugs. They both get so trapped up in the scene of the party life. They decide they must leave. They find a new apartment close to Berkeley. By December 23rd both girls decide that they have to go home. Life starts to look a little brighter for Alice. At least she is home with a caring family, food on the table, and a roof over her head. Alice and Chris both return back to school and Alice gets pressure from a guy named Joe about her old “drug pushing” life style and it drives her crazy. She starts connecting with Lane and he gets her connected with more drugs. This is all her life is: drugs, drugs, and more drugs.
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