Go Ask Alcie

Go Ask Alice Summary/Response

Go Ask Alice is a diary written by a fifteen year old girl who deals with many real life situations. In the beginning of the book the main character struggles with self image and low self esteem, like many fifteen year olds face. She’s not as thin as she wants to be; she wants to be more popular and doesn’t really have many friends. Her father ends up getting a new job and their whole family has to relocate. She finds a group of new friends in her new town and they invite her to a party and she is introduced to drugs unknowingly. From this point she is suckered in by a world of drugs. She starts getting into more dangerous drugs, and uses them on a regular basis. She eventually goes to a rehabilitation center to get off of the drugs, but when she does her old friends pressure her into doing drugs again and tease her because she doesn’t. She stayed drug free for awhile and in her last diary entry she decides to not keep another diary because she feels strong enough and doesn’t need a diary to be her support. The author leaves an afterword saying that three weeks after her last diary entry she was found