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Commentary On The Book Go Ask Allice's Go Ask Alice

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Go ask allice is one of the most banned book in schools and I completely dis agree, I think this book should be shown to kids to teach them that life isn’t all sun shine and rainbows. It shows how you would have to life on your own and how hard it is to survive when you don’t have an education and how bad drugs can mess with a person’s mind and physical stat.

Alice’s life changes so much throughout the book at the start of the book she was this innocent girl that had a depressed stat but wasn’t having that bad of a life but she found out she was going to be moving that ended up scaring her, she gets a new friend that brings her to a party they are all playing this game little did she know it was an acid game and she gets so high and has her first trip. She writes how she wants to try other drugs only one time and then she will be done but little did she know it would end up with her addicted to many drugs. …show more content…

Alice ends up later on in the book having sex again and also starts to basically date this dealer and asks to have sex with him sober but she finds out that he is gay and turns him in to the police, they move to sanfrancico so she can get away from him cause shes afraid of what hes going to do to her she is there with her friend chris they both get a jobs and an apartment they end up getting home sick and make it back home and their parents start to treat them better but this dosent last

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