Over the summer I read “Go Ask Alice.” This book is a dairy
kept by an unnamed girl who takes drugs in the early 70’s. I think that this
book shows you the consequences of drugs.
One way
this book shows you the consequence of drugs is it describe what can go wrong
when you are “high”. In the middle of the book, this girl and her friend run
away to San Francisco. They want to open their own boutique and they seek
employment in a small shop owned by a middle-aged woman. This woman invited
them both to a cocktail party. They both agree. At the party, the two girls
both have a few drinks. After the party, the women invites the two girls back
to her apartment with her boyfriend. All four of them do heroin. After the girl
and her friend fall asleep, the boutique owner and her boyfriend assault them.
This shows that when you are under the influence of drugs, nobody is there to
protect you. You can’t speak for yourself and your judgment is impaired. If
they hadn’t drank the alcohol, they may have not gone with the women and her
boyfriend. And then the assault would have never happened. So this shows what
can go wrong when you are under the influence of drugs.
Another way this book shoes you the
consequence of drugs is it’s effects on life. For example when the pressure
from her family and her neighborhood become too much for the girl, she runs
away again. Then to make money to buy drugs she results to prostitution. Another
example is when her friends treat the diarist wrong, she comes back, she has a
bad “trip” and is sent to a mental hospital. Both of these situations are
problems that nobody would like to be in the middle of. In the beginning of the
book, the diarist was smart and on task, but as soon as she became involved
with drugs, she ended up throwing her life away. This is another way the book shows the consequences
of drugs.
These are a
couple of examples for how the book “Go Ask Alice” shows it’s readers the consequences
of drugs. When I was reading the book, it showed me how drugs have many
different variables. The book was very intense but I do not regret reading it. This
book really impacted my view of the world. And I would definitely recommend it
to anyone.
