Because this book is presented as a diary, it is written exclusively from the first person past point of view. Sep 27, 2016 i think you mean go ask alice by anonymous aka beatrice sparks, but anywho. She has quite a few friends in the town she was living in in the first part of the book. 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. She longs to escape her poor provincial town for good. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same. All of the 11 picks below carry similar themes and elements to pll, from murderous high school drama and highstakes friendships to missing girls and, yes, maybe even an evil twin or two.
I love this book and would also recommend it to others who like ellen hopkins and books like cut or skinny. This study guide consists of approximately 52 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of go ask alice. References pop up in far flung places, from james joyces nighunreadable modernist tome finnegans wake to 1970s reefer madness tract go ask alice. As such, we hope it will provide insights into the. If you like go ask alice you might like similar books crank, cut, identical, impulse, aimee. If you like the court of thorns and roses series, check out these other exciting fantasy fiction young adult titles with similar themes. Say im weird, but i love books about teens or people with horrible lives, or about peopleteens doing drugs, having sex, drinking underage, running away, or murder books, sort of like go ask alice, so please, tell me the best. Pardon me as i wax pedantic, but what we tend to think of as alice in wonderland is two separate novels. Girl by blake nelson written like a diary of a true 16 year old girl even though it written by a man, also made into a movie fat kid rules the world by k.
There are also other books about alice by the same author, but i cant think of any names. Returning to it as an adult feels a bit like youre taking part in a piece of. May 18, 2010 hi, i am reading go ask alice and so far i love it, and i would like to read more books like it. The book that defined my teen anxiety turned out to be a lie. Last year, the ala recorded 347 reported book challenges in the united states, a 2. Find books like go ask alicejay s journal from the worlds largest community of readers. An award winning novel by the name of go ask alice did that. Since its publication over 150 years ago, lewis carrolls alices adventures in wonderland has inspired a raft of adaptions and reimaginings. Go ask alice is a memoir that follows the diary of a teenage girl during the late sixties. Does anyone know of any books that are similar to go ask.
It is, however, a highly personal and specific chronicle. Pardon me as i wax pedantic, but what we tend to think of as alice in wonderland is two. Grownups treat them like children and yet expect them to act like adults anonymous, 87. 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. Click on a title, author name or category to see similar books. Through out the history of film, many productions have been made based on best selling novels.
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. Sheila munros parents met in 1950 in college, where alice like rose in the story the beggar maid was a scholarship student. If several similar results are shown, click the highest one. Reading the book was like looking into alice s world, and often it was an uncomfortable, depressing, and fearful journey. I am looking for books like it, so if you know any, please tell. We dont have any recommendations for go ask alice book right now. Go ask alice is still awash in controversy, 43 years after publication. Reading the book was like looking into alices world, and often it was an uncomfortable, depressing, and fearful journey. Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our huge database of real readers favorite books to provide book recommendations and suggestions for what to read next. The novel is in epistolary format, being comprised entirely of diary entries and as such, was first thought to be an autobiography. Teenagers drug use teenagers alcohol use teenage girls diary fiction. One book that is extremely similar to go ask alice is jays journal, written by anonymous aka beatrice sparks again. January 24th after youve had it, there isnt even life without drugs it started when she was served a soft drink laced with lsd in a dangerous party game.
Sheila follows her mothers life and career from this point. I have looked over your site and found it to be informative and that sensitive questions have been handled with sensitivity and tact. Only parents can decide if they want their children to read go ask alice. 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. Megan mccaffertys books sloppy firsts, second helpings and charmed thirds are similar in some ways.
Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. Think about outlets like social media and how that impacts the way people portray themselves. Go ask alice anonymous diaries paperback january 1, 2006. Turned out to be a thinly veiled anti drug propaganda book, no real alice, no diary.
It graphically describes the waking hell into which the main character descends, her heartfelt but futile battles to. The sobering message of go ask alice had a huge effect on my. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. In the book go ask alice by anonymous, the main character alice writes her life down in a diary. Creating film adaptations for movies has become very common because directors can be sure that their target audiences are intrigued by the topic of their future film.
Also books that have to do with young girls pregnancys and such,not just drugs. Find books like go ask alice from the worlds largest community of readers. Studies find that adolescents educated about sex are more likely to delay their first sexual experience and act more responsibly when they have sex. The girl who wrote this diary lived in two different worlds, the real world and a fantasy world. If you like go ask alice you might like similar movies. As powerfuland as timelytoday as ever, go ask alice remains the definitive book on the horrors of addiction. Attributed to anonymous, the book is in diary form, and was originally presented as being the edited real diary of the unnamed teenage p. Go ask alice is based on the actual diary of a fifteenyearold drug user. Almost home annies baby basketball diaries, jim carroll beauty queen checkers cut a recent one about treatment of a self mutilator. Books similar to go ask alicejays journal goodreads. Find books like go ask alicejays journal from the worlds largest community of readers. I think you mean go ask alice by anonymous aka beatrice sparks, but anywho.
Yet it was originally promoted as nonfiction, its still sold as by anonymous and the copy i have has this is alices true story on the cover plus the blurb on the back, the foreword and the psychologists comment at the back everything is still packaged to make out this is nonfiction. If you liked go ask alice by author anonymous, here are some books like this. A teen plunges into a downward spiral of addiction in this classic cautionary tale. Alice, i am a childrens librarian and i was specifically made aware of your site by a parent concerned that her child would go to your site and read information she found offensive. Hi, i am reading go ask alice and so far i love it, and i would like to read more books like it. The journey to adulthood can be scary and overwhelming. 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 when her fathers new job causes her family to move across the country, alice is thrust into a new school at a time when she is at best sensitive. The diary begins right before alices fifteenth birthday. Jun 28, 2017 all of the 11 picks below carry similar themes and elements to pll, from murderous high school drama and highstakes friendships to missing girls and, yes, maybe even an evil twin or two.
It is not a definitive statement on the middleclass, teenage drug world. 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. Every time after she uses, she feels guilty and low and vows to stay away. Her habit eventually becomes a problem, leading her to run away from home numerous times, before landing herself into.
Nowadays ya lit is pretty universal harry potter really opened the doors for people to read childrens books no matter what their agebut in 1971 when our book was written that wasnt really the case. Raven, bunker and beast boy step out of the shadows of the adult heroes of the dc. Goodreads members who liked go ask alicejay s journal also lik. If you like a court of thorns and roses by sarah j. Almost home annies baby basketball diaries, jim carroll beauty queen checkers cut a recent one about treatment of a self mutilator dear miffy which is full of really foul language beware dont you dare read this, mrs. Bookbanners like to take go ask alice out of libraries because they. If you do like it, there is another book called jays journal that is. In the tradition of go ask alice halfshadowed face of a teenager on the cover, cautionary tale told in the form of diary entries, anonymous author. My mind was blown when i read the 1971 novel, go ask alice.
Belle also happens to be the captive of a terrifying, angry beast. Some people maintain that alice in wonderland can only have been written by an author with considerable hallucinogenic mushroom experience under their belt. It graphically describes the waking hell into which the main character descends, her heartfelt but futile battles to return home and stay clean, her pleas to god to. Her habit eventually becomes a problem, leading her to run away from home numerous times, before landing herself into serious danger. Alice s adventures in wonderland commonly shortened to alice in wonderland is an 1865 novel written by english mathematician. Alices adventures in wonderland and through the lookingglass. If you do like it, there is another book called jays journal that is very similar. 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. Go ask alice the material in go ask alice came from a young, drug addicted girls diary chronicling her drug use and short life. Despite these common tropes, there is a wide breadth of steampunk books out there, including mashups with other genres such as romance, fantasy, historical fiction and space opera. Go ask alice book by anonymous official publisher page. The thoughts, emotions, trials, changes, and the everyday roller coaster that is a part of teenage life are captured in the pages of this fifteenyearolds 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. But she just cant resist the way the drugs make her feelbeautiful and popular and connected to the world around her. Novel versus the movie adaption of go ask alice essay. Go ask alice by anonymous about the book she doesnt want to get hooked on drugs. Several entries in the book narrators alices diary almost seemed unreal to me because i cannot. What are some books that are like diaries and are real for example go ask alice.
This is appropriate for all ages, it is good for everyone to know what can happen if you get. Goodreads members who liked go ask alice also liked. Its great in a sense, different than anything i read at the time. Say im weird, but i love books about teens or people with horrible lives, or about peopleteens doing drugs, having sex, drinking underage, running away, or murder books, sort of like go ask alice, so please, tell me the best ones. Attributed to anonymous, the book is in diary form, and was originally presented as being the edited.
In the same vein, go ask alice is young adult literature because thats the audience it was specifically geared toward. Third, the revelation, for the adult reader, that go ask alice is not, in fact. Everything seems normal at first, but that soon changes when she is enticed into the world of drugs. I would like to include an answer from this service along with. The american library association ala has tracked book challenges, which are attempts to remove or restrict materials, since 1990. See more ideas about books, books to read, book worth reading. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. Jul 28, 2008 what are some books that are like diaries and are real for example go ask alice. Feb 07, 2016 the 1971 novel, go ask alice, effectively illustrates what adolescence can be like for someone actively experiencing it. Start typing the title or the author of a book you like, and click on the link underneath which matches best. Jun 16, 2002 sheila munros parents met in 1950 in college, where alice like rose in the story the beggar maid was a scholarship student. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an.
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