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Synopsis: The novel „Go Ask Alice” was written by Beatrice Sparks in 1971. It is set in the United States of America in the late 1960’s and is written in form of a diary of a confused and troubled fifteen-year-old girl, named Alice(presuming the title of the novel references to her name). The girl writing the diary is very concerned with her weight, her crush Roger and has a hard time fitting in in school. She is very relieved at first when she hears that her family is going to move to a new town, due to her father’s new job as a professor at a different college. At the new place things are not as she expected them to be. In contrast to the rest of her family she has troubles finding friends and she feels like an outcast at school. Luckily she meets a neighbor girl who she becomes best friends with, but soon they are separated when the diarist goes to her grandparents for the summer. Here she is extremely bored and misses her friend Beth a lot. So she gets in touch with her old Friend Jill, who invites her to a party. Once there a group of teenagers sit in a circle and drink Coke which was laced with LSD, without informing Alice. Although she enjoys the effect the drugs have on her, Alice swears to never take drugs again. This promise to herself is soon broken as she takes more drugs because she is curious and turned on by her first trip. This leads to her having sex with one of her peers while on a trip and thereby loses her virginity. She always swore to lose her virginity to her crush Roger, who suddenly appears at her doorstep with his parents, because they want to visit Alice’s grandfather who suffered a slight heart attack. Even though she is very delighted to see Roger, she is plagued by the fact that she has recently los... ... middle of paper ... ...l life which just spirals out of control, due to the influence of drugs. It is an easy to read book because it is broken up into many separate entries, making you always curious how the events of one day will affect the next day. It is a bit sluggish at first, because it seems like a whiny teenaged girl complaining about her problems, but later on evolves to a very catching story which is worthy of the readers time, although the epilogue ruins the book as the protagonist dies even though everything was hinting toward her life being fixed again. This sends a message to teenagers with drug problems that they will never be able to fix their live again. I would recommend the book to any teenager before they try drugs so they understand the impact drugs can have on your live. The novel is also good for parents who do not know how to deal with their child’s drug abuse.

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