Go Ask Alice

I. What first interested me in reading Go Ask Alice was the fact that the story was based on a fifteen year old drug user. The cover caught my attention because it had her face in a dark shadow with the title of the book in the forefront. The cover made it appear spooky but,
exciting at the same time. The choice of words on the back cover enabled me to see how real the story was
going to be. The book started out slow giving
background and personal information about Alice. The information wasn’t very attention grabbing.

II. The novel detailed the life of Alice as a teenager.
She basically had one friend and wasn’t popular at all. Due to her father taking a new job she ended up moving to a new town. She began writing down the events of her life in a diary. She didn’t feel as if she fit in her new surroundings.
She finally met a girl she clicked with at a party who was going to move to New York. This new friend was heavily involved in drugs and sex....