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Personal Review: Go Ask Alice By Beatrice Sparks

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Go Ask Alice is about a teenage girl named Alice who got into the world of drugs at 15 years old. This book is based off a real diary that was published in 1971. The genre is young adult fiction. The author is anonymous but has been edited by Beatrice Sparks. The anonymous author started writing a diary because she felt lonely and feels like she has no one to talk to. I think this was published to show that it’s so easy to access drugs from back then and even until this day. Also that teens can be easily influenced and become addicted to drugs. One literary device is theme. The theme of this story is to inform others the disasters. Drugs can do to you if you get addicted to them. I also think that it’s to inform you that you could
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