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.