Go Ask Alice (Pages 146- The End)

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.