Books similar to go ask alice goodreads share book. Turned out to be a thinly veiled anti drug propaganda book, no real alice, no diary. While some people believe that go ask alice is not a true diary after all, but the wholly or partly fictional work of beatrice sparks one of the book s editors and the author of several fictional teen diaries, the diary indisputably evokes the drug and sexsaturated atmosphere of the late 1960s. My very go ahead principal read it to the whole school in assembly over the course of a couple of weeks. There are several books with 70sstyle crafts macrame, string art, clothing items, etc. When the family moves for the collegeenglishprofessor fathers new job, alice apprehensively approaches the unfamiliar and befriends another shy girl, beth, who shares her outsider status. I read it when i was in the seventh grade and was absolutely terrified by the searingly honest portrayal of what i assumed it felt like to do drugs. In go ask alice, the diary is written by a teenage girl over a twoyear period and chronicles her experiences with drugsmainly marijuana, acid, and speed. A book report on go ask alice english literature essay. Only parents can decide if they want their children to read go ask alice.
Based on a 15yearolds diary, go ask alice is the intimate account of one girls fatal journey into the world of drug addiction. They called the police and the hospital but there was nothing anyone. One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small and the ones that mother gives you dont do anything at all. Based on the bestselling book, go ask alice recounts a young girls ultimately fatal experiences with drugs in. As powerfuland as timelytoday as ever, go ask alice remains the definitive book on the horrors of addiction. It was reported as unsold and destroyed to the publisher and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this stripped book. She is a pretty typical teenage girl in the late 1960sshes mostly concerned with school, boys, her hair, and fitting in okay, thats pretty typical for any decade.
Go ask alice by anonymous if you purchased this book without a cover you should be aware that this book is stolen property. Go ask alice is still awash in controversy, 43 years after. Ellen hopkinss semiautobiographical verse novel, crank, reads like a go ask alice for the 21st century. From a general summary to chapter summaries to explanations of famous quotes, the sparknotes go ask alice study guide has everything you need to ace quizzes, tests, and essays. When she was only fifteen she was slipped lsd in her drink at a party and she loved it. May 16, 2018 go ask alice was first published in 1971 and has since become one of the most banned books of all time. Go ask alice was published anonymously in 1971, but in the last two decades, it still lives in the top 25 most frequently banned books, according to the. Im now a mum and i decided a couple of years ago to read the book myself.
Make it sound like something that you might write in a diary. Go ask alice is a 1971 book generally viewed to have been written by the author beatrice sparks, however the novel was published originally under the pseudonym anonymous. Her conflict through out the whole book is that she has a substance abuse problem. Alice wants to fit in, but doing that with her peers means shes at odds with her family. Go ask alice follows the journal entries of alice, a typical teenage girl, who quickly descends into the depths of drug addiction. The novel is in epistolary format, being comprised entirely of diary entries and as such, was first thought to be an autobiography. Go ask alice is still awash in controversy, 43 years after publication.
I checked it out of my school library the day after the local police came to my. Its said that the author of the book upon which this movie was based wrote it as a work of. Hey, this book is available on the below mentioned link. Go ask alice is the firstperson tale of an accidental downward spiral into drugs, alcohol, unwanted sex, and impoverished living. Go ask alice is a 1971 fiction book about a teenage girl who develops a drug addiction at age.
In it, she chronicles the turbulent and often disturbing relationship between kristina, a more. With a sensitive, observant style, she records her adolescent woes. Our team members have advanced degrees in public health, health education, medicine, counseling, and a number of. Attributed to anonymous, the book is in diary form, and was originally presented as being the edited real diary of the unnamed teenage protagonist.
Go ask alicejays journal anonymous diaries by anonymous and beatrice sparks. Some people maintain that alice in wonderland can only have been written by an author with considerable hallucinogenic mushroom experience under their belt. The book that defined my teen anxiety turned out to be a lie. The book go ask alice was the reallife diary of a teenage girl. While some people believe that go ask alice is not a true diary after all, but the wholly or partly fictional work of beatrice sparks one of the books editors and the author of several fictional teen diaries, the diary indisputably evokes the drug and sexsaturated atmosphere of the late 1960s. To ask other readers questions about go ask alice, please sign up. Jan 04, 2008 do you know anything about the book go ask alice. The book of david anonymous diaries by anonymous jun 3, 2014. The drugs make her fit in with a certain group at school, but alienate her from her family and others. As powerful and as timely today as ever, go ask alice remains the definitive book on the horrors of addiction. Summary read a plot overview of the entire book or a chapter by chapter summary and analysis. The reader has to be mature, but the book should not be shot down because some people are too immature to read it. An intelligent, sensitive girl with a literary flair, she experiments with drugs and the counterculture to escape from her low selfesteem and consuming loneliness.
For thirtyfive years, the acclaimed, bestselling firstperson account of a teenage girls harrowing decent into the nightmarish world of drugs has left an indelible mark on generations of teen readers. Go ask alice by beatrice sparks is an epistolary work, meaning that is structured as a series of entries such as letters or in this case, a diary. A dark and edgy firstperson cautionary tale about how one girls seemingly minor choices quickly spiraled into a life as a sex worker in the tradition of go ask alice and lucy in. Alice alice is the anonymous protagonist her name is an allusion to a jefferson airplane song whose intermittent diary entries narrate go ask alice. In case you arent familiar with it, its supposedly an anonymous diary found by the parents of a fifteen year old drug user after she. Go ask alice teaches you what can happen when you get into drugs and its hard to stay away from them once you have started and know how easy it is to get ahold of them. The book and especially the ending shows the harsh reality of drugs and addiction in teenagers. Created during the height of the drug era, the girl could be anyone from this time who found him or herself seduced by the mindaltering affects of marijuana, lsd, bennies, dexies, and heroin. It was the anonymous diary of a girls losing battle with drug addiction. Go ask alice by anonymous was a diary of a fifteenyearold girl, named melanie. When i called my friend kelly to discuss my revelations about go ask alicekelly is the selfdeprecating friend i rely on to temper my personal humiliations with her reliably more outrageous gaffesshe wanted to know if i was joking. Oct 03, 2016 go ask alice is the firstperson tale of an accidental downward spiral into drugs, alcohol, unwanted sex, and impoverished living.
It graphically describes the waking hell into which the main character descends, her heartfelt but futile battles to. Poignant and unflinchingly honest, her story is a tragedy that is repeated in towns and cities across the country. Sep 16, 2012 go ask alice 1973 full movie miss flowahs. I first heard of go ask alice when still in school in the 1980s. Authentic, tragic tale of teen drug addiction a classic. It has sold over four million copies, was adapted as a tv movie with william shatner, and is still in print over 40 years later. Mar 23, 2017 d espite the popularity of go ask alice, the mystery of the diarists identity has never been truly solved, and none of her relatives have ever come forward to claim a share of the royalties. The list go ask alice has been one of the most frequently challenged books, according to the american library associations frequently challenged books of the 21st century list, since its publication in 1971, for content relating to drugs, sexual explicitness, offensive language, and inappropriate themes for the target age group frequently challenged 1. My favourite part of the book, is the part where alice met joel and she felt in love with him. Oct 10, 2009 alice wants to fit in, but doing that with her peers means shes at odds with her family.
Go ask alice was the product of beatrice sparks, an author who has come out with a number of teens who saw their lives ruined by their bad choices offerings, each one presented as a true. Jul 03, 2014 go ask alice was published anonymously in 1971, but in the last two decades, it still lives in the top 25 most frequently banned books, according to the american library association. Jan 22, 2018 reading go ask alicethe socalled real diary, first published in 1971, of an anonymous girl who took drugs and diedis an experience so widely shared that theres little point personalizing it. Writer linda goldberg also addresses the speed at which, who she called alice, but is the nevernamed narrator, falls into being essentially a. Then they called me every rotten name in the book and roared of laughing hysterically, leaving me some. What is the primary conflict in the book go ask alice. Go ask alice was written in the 1970s, a decade with a very unique sense of style.
Choose your favorite scene from the book and rewrite it using modern language. An intelligent, sensitive girl with a literary flair, she experiments with drugs and the counterculture to escape from. She was like any other teenager that had a school crush, wanted to be popular, and was always conscious about the way she looked. The go ask alice community note includes chapterbychapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you. Go ask alice is a 1971 fiction book about a teenage girl who develops a drug addiction at age 15 and runs away from home on a journey of selfdestructive escapism. The sobering message of go ask alice had a huge effect on my lifeand then i. I dont remember much about it, but its another fake propaganda book, this time about teen suicide. Parents and school boards were worried that this book would encourage teens and preteens to. On the lighter side of the situation this causes her to be very moody at times and very emotional. Go ask alice anonymous diaries and millions of other books are available for instant access. Go ask alice is a fiction work written anonymously and first published in 1971. When the family moves for the collegeenglishprofessor fathers new job, alice apprehensively approaches the unfamiliar and befriends another shy girl.
At about the same time a book was published called go ask alice. This is appropriate for all ages, it is good for everyone to know what can happen if you get into drugs, and it can scare young kids away. May 22, 2019 when i called my friend kelly to discuss my revelations about go ask alicekelly is the selfdeprecating friend i rely on to temper my personal humiliations with her reliably more outrageous gaffesshe wanted to know if i was joking. Go ask alice is a 1971 novel by beatrice sparks that bills itself the reallife diary of an anonymous teenage girl. Jefferson airplane go ask alice lyrics metrolyrics. Parents and school boards were worried that this book would encourage teens and preteens to try out drugs. I dont remember much about it, but its another fake propaganda book, this time about. This is almost the only happy thing in alices life. Alice is in conflict with everyone around her, because she cant accept herself as she really is. The book that defined my teen anxiety turned out to be a. D espite the popularity of go ask alice, the mystery of the diarists identity has never been truly solved, and none of her relatives have ever come forward to claim a share of the royalties. Go ask alice was published anonymously in 1971, but in the last two decades, it still lives in the top 25 most frequently banned books, according to the american library association. If you do like it, there is another book called jays journal that is very similar.
Dec 27, 2009 clipfirst few minutesfrom the 1973 tv movie. The diary begins right before alices fifteenth birthday. The original book, alices adventures in wonderland was written in 1865, whereas go ask alice wasnt written until 1971. Reading go ask alicethe socalled real diary, first published in 1971, of an anonymous girl who took drugs and diedis an experience so widely shared that theres little point personalizing it. Lines from go ask alice that, in hindsight, should have tipped me. Published in 1971, at the height of the psychedelic era, go ask alice is a visceral and harrowing depiction of a teenage girls fatal decline into drugs. Reading go ask alicethe socalled real diary, first published in 1971. In the 1970s, this fake diary scaredand temptedteenage girls all. This is my second read of go ask alice, and i loved it just as much the second time around. Jul 28, 2017 hey, this book is available on the below mentioned link. Although a girl named alice appears very briefly in the book, she is not the diarist, but a fellow runaway whom the diarist meets on the street in. One was called jays journal, and was purportedly about a teen who gets.
Lines from go ask alice that, in hindsight, should have. Is alice in wonderland based on the book go ask alice. An unnamed fifteenyearold diarist, whom the novels title refers to as alice, starts a diary. It was a brave decision on her part, but the text always stayed with me. Go ask alice book by anonymous official publisher page. Call me oldfashioned call me naive but i cannot bring myself to. But those of you old enough to remember the latter portion of the 70s might remember that beatrice sparks, the editor of go ask alice, also edited a bunch of other alarmist books aimed at teens, all supposedly taken from teenagers diaries.
As powerfuland as timelytoday as ever, go ask alice remains the. Everyone who encounters go ask alice goes through the same four stages titillated horror, for the young reader, at the books dramatic depictions of drug use. Go ask alice has been around for decades, and is even being used as reading material in high schools. Go ask alice is a reference to a jefferson airplane song called white rabbit, which alludes to rampant hallucinogenic drug use in lewis carrolls alice in wonderland. Go ask alice was first published in 1971 and has since become one of the most banned books of all time. This young adult book was first published as an anonymous but real diary in 1971, and remains popular to this day. In the 1970s, this fake diary scaredand temptedteenage. Go ask alice is still awash in controversy, 43 years. Some of the recurring reasons for it being banned are language, sexual content, and drug use. Over the length of a couple of years she has experimented with every type of drug that she could get her hands on.