Go Ask Alice :: essays research papers

Go Ask AliceThis book is actually a real diary, written by a 15 year old American girl who is tossed into the world of drugs. The girl has the "perfect" life but is forced to change from a child to an adult closely overnight. She develops a crass attitude, and becomes paranoid, all because of her newly found lust for drugs.It didnt just happen overnight. She started to take sleeping pills and tranquilizers to fall asleep but friends slipped her LSD and from then(prenominal) on she was hooked. She felt insecure and al maven, so when the "popular group" invited her to join them she leapt at the chance. She fits right in by being introduced to drugs such as promote and torpedos. She starts to experiment with more use of drugs and pre-marital sex.She starts pushing drugs at school for her new boyfriend Ritchie which will give her a rep she wont be able to touch off father on down the road. It turns out though, that Ritchie is gay as she soon finds out, she was used a nd feels terrible so..Feeling her life is depressing, with her parents harping at her intimately her looks and grades, and her peers ignoring her at her new school, she runs away with a girl a year older than herself, Chris. They go to the city of San Francisco to escape it all. They live in a one bedroom dirty apartment, saving their money until they can open up their own little boutique. They find jobs with grand bosses who invite them out. One is a wonderful old man with a large family who accepts them as their own. The other boss is a very wealthy woman who loves to throw parties and lets the girls crash at her place. They consider everything is wonderful until one evening they are sitting with her and her boyfriend and they try heroin and then speed and then are brutally raped. They are revolt with this lifestyle so they head out to start a boutique for themselves.After a while with the boutique the two are over with it and define to head home, she calls her mother and is picked up the next evening at the airport by her families warm embrace.Christmas time has come and she is happy as can be. No more drugs, happy to be with her family and ready to get rid of her old life and on with the new.