baslik: Go ask Alice

yazar: Anonymous

bolum: Engels




MAIN CHARACTERS:


Alice: She is the writer of the dairy. She is 15 years old when the story starts. You don’t get to know her real name.

She is a nice banned, but drugs deestroy her live. She is not a strong banned. She gives up very easily. She is a kind of lonely, although she has friends. During the story she has several friends.

Alice has a mothr and a father. Her father is a profesor at a university.

She has a sister Alexandria and a brother Tim.

She has grandparents too, which she loves a lot, they are her mom s parents.

Alice has a whole bunch of friends during the story. I will just name the most
important ones: Gerta, Beth, Fawn and Chris. Chris plays a big part in the story.

WHEN AND WHERE:



The story takes place in the 1960’s. Alice is a member of a middle-class family
from the western part of America. The names of the towns they live in are not named.




THE STORY:



Alice lives with her family in a city in America near to her grandparents. She is a
good student at school, but she doesnt have the right friends. Because that
she’s very happy when her parents tell her that they are going to move to another place, far away. Alice is in love with Roger and she tells him that she would always wait for him, no matter what happened and how long.

They move into the new city. alice is neglected at school and she can’t get any
friends again. She feels miserable and she gains about fifty pounds, although she is on a diet. After a while she gets friends with Beth. they are very close and talk about everything. Then the summer comes. Beth goes to a summer camp and Alice goes to hr grandparents.

At first it’s boring for her to be there, but after a while she meats new people.
Those people are popular, and from her old school. They invite her to party. At the party Alice uses drugs for the first time, it was in her Coke. She has her first trip from
LSD.

They were playing a game when it happened.

At the party Alice meats a guy named Bill. He introduces Alice to more drugs and they have sex. Alice feels guilty about that, because of Roger. Alice doesn’t really want to do this all, but she is just curious about it.

After the party she goes home and takes some sleeping pills of her grandparents.
When the summer is over with, Alice goes home. Alice goes to the doctor to ask for some sleeping pills, because she can’t sleep. Beth comes back from summer camp, but their friendship isn’t the same anymore. Alice becomes a sort of hippie after she got home. She meats Chris, a banned who works at a boutique. She detends the same school as
Alice, but she’s one year ahead of Alice. Chris has a job for Alice and they become very close friends. They are really popular at school.

While the time gets by, Alice gets into a lot of trouble with her parents. They find out that she’s using and dealing drugs.

Chris and Alice get involved with two guys, Ted and Richie. They give the girls pot and want them to sell drugs too. Alice is in love with Richie, and he forces her to sell drugs even to little kids. One day the girls catch the boys making love to each other. The girls get back to reality and they go to the police.

They want to go to San Francisco, Chris says that she knows some people over there.

They think that they had run away for all the problems and all the trouble, but it all still goes on. They swear to each other not to use drugs ever again, but that’s too late. They are addicted and decide to go home again. They want to straight their lives out and all the things that go along with their lives.

But nothing of that helps. Alice’s grandma dies and she so hurt true that, that
she isn’t strong enough not to use drugs again.

On a day she decides not to write in her diary anymore.

At the end of the book you get to know that she dies an overdose of drugs.
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