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Explanation of the title:‘Go ask Alice’. In this book Alice is the main character, Alice is not her real name but
a name that was given to her. She wants to be a social worker and help people with
their drug problem. Go ask Alice means that you can go ask Alice if you have a
problem.
Biographical information of the writer:
The writer is anonymous, but the book is a diary. In the book Alice is the one who is
writing the diary, but it isn’t her real name. Because there are no real names I don’t
have any information about the writer.
Themes:
Drugs and friendship.
The whole diary is about Alice who takes drugs, gets clean and then relapses again.
She makes a lot of new friends when she moves to another city and reunites with her
childhood friend.
Setting:
The story takes place in the western part of America, I don’t know where exactly the
story takes place since they don’t mention any of the towns they lived in. The story
takes place in 1960.
Description of main characters:
- Alice
Alice is the writer of this book, Alice isn’t her real name but was chosen after a
Jefferson Airplane song. Alice is a smart and sensitive girl. She experiments with
drugs to escape from her low self-esteem and loneliness.
- Alice’s parents
Alice’s parents are unnamed in the book. Her father is a professor and her mother is
a homemaker. They love and care very much about Alice but don’t know how to
communicate with her.
- Grandparents
Alice’s grandparents are very sweet and Alice spends summers at their house until
they die.
- Roger
Roger is a boy, Alice has a crush on him at the beginning of the story
- School friends (Gerta, Beth, Fawn, Jill)
Jill is her friend from her previous school. Gerta, Berth and Fawn are friends in her
current school.
- Chris
Chris is a girlfriend who ran away to San Francisco with Alice to do drugs.
- Joel
Joel goes to the university where her father teaches. He started growing a romantic
relationship with Alice.
Which character can you identify with?
I think I can identify best with her grandparents because they are very caring about
her. They love her really much and want the best for her. I relate to them because I
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