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.