A Teen Girl In The Wrong Path

Summary:
I read the book Go Ask Alice its author is Anonymous. This book is about a teenage girl that barley turned 15 years old. In the beginning of the book she is like a normal teenager that describes her life as boring. Then her parents tell her that they will have to move. This meant that she was going to have to attend a new school and make new friends. When she first moved there she was always alone but later on she became really good friends with two girls, one of them was Beth, she was Jewish. Unfortunately Beth was going to go away to a Jewish camp. So Alice went to stay at her grandma's house. Later on her grandma had a heart attack. Then Alice went to a party were she experienced drugs for the first time and then later on lost her virginity to a guy, Bill. That's not all thought. Alice went through many other situations as a teenager.

Critique:
I think that this was a really good book. It "puts you in someone else's skin". By this I mean that it puts you in another persons point of view. In this situation it was a 15 year old girl that faced many problems. I believe that by publishing Alice's diary they were trying to let other people see that your actions may have really bad consequences.

Recommendations:
I recommend this book to both teens and parents. That way teenagers can see how being under the influence of drugs can really hurt you. And parents can see how problems they have at home can and may affect there children, and it will allow them to see the world in a teens point of view. I think that both parents and teens will really like this book. I give this book four stars.

Focusing in on Character

Alice, is the main character in the book Go Ask Alice. She is always talking about her life and drugs. "I simply can't wait to try pot." (Page 36) This makes me believe that this is something that is really important to her in her life.

Alice's thoughts vary. They all depend on how she is feeling. At times she tells herself that she really needs to stop using drugs. She also said "I'll spend the rest of my life helping people who are just like me!" (Page 108) This shows that she actually wants to change the way she is. Meaning stop using drugs and help people that have the same problem, just like her.

Like everyone says what you do hurts you and everyone else around you. Well this is the situation that Alice is in. She is always running away because she feels like her parents don't give her the freedom she needs. This last time that she ran away she found out how worried and how much her parents really cared and loved her.

My character most of the time, like I already mentioned, is always using drugs and running away. Her actions really affect the people that love her. But she does plan on changing her life. That would be by helping others out and changing the way that she is. Like her actions.

"Help me to exercise every morning and night and clean my skin and eat right and be optomistic and agreeable and posotive and cheerful." (Page 10)Alice describes herself as a chubby teenager. She is always saying that she needs to loose some weight. Also that she needs to clean her face out. Just like most teenagers she doesn't like the way she looks.

Entry #1

When I was younger I used to love to read. But like they say as you grow up you change well that's what happened to me. Now I really don't like to read. Well I only read when it has to do something with school, and I have to like the book. As a child it was usually either my mom or sisters the ones that would read to me. One book that I do remember reading had to do with this little girl saving up money to buy her mom a new couch.

The first book I selected for Reader's Workshop is "Go Ask Alice" by an Anonymous author. I picked it because the book is about a teenage girl that was under the influence of drugs and it sounds interesting. In the book I expect them to tell me how her life was, why she chose to go down that road, and was she ever able to stop using drugs.