"Go Ask Alice" Blog #5

Q: What are your final reactions and feelings after finishing the book?

A:            My final thoughts to the book are just that I am amazed. I mean you always hear about people being druggies, or drinking, or just being plain stupid when it comes to this kind of stuff, but when you hear a story about it, things change.

            First of all I can’t believe that this girl got caught up in this lifestyle and couldn’t get out. I think that if I knew her before she got involved with drugs, I would have never thought she would be one to try and be addicted to them. She seemed so normal.

            It saddens me so much to know that she died in the end. After you think that she finally cleans up her act and gets her life together, she dies. I just don’t find that to be right. I just think that she wouldn’t do it, the overdose and all. I almost feel like she was tricked get again into unknowingly taking the drugs.

            I feel that she would have made it so far in life: fulfilling her dream to become a counselor, helping drug abusing kids, and starting a family, but of couse that’s not the case.

            “Alice’s” life was taken away from her unexpectedly by other people. It is a sad story, which should have never happened in the first place. I guess it just shows that one time can mess up your entire life.

"Go Ask Alice" Blog #4

Q: How will "Alice do in the mental hospital? How will her time there affect her wanting to become a counselor?

A:            After “Alice” is checked into the mental hospital, she is scared and doesn’t really want to be there. She at first doesn’t want to be social at all and thinks all the other kids are freaks. “Alice” thinks that she doesn’t belong there.

            I believe that her time in the mental hospital will cause her to become more open with people. In order for her to fully recover, she must talk about her previous and current problems.

            Dr. Miller encourages “Alice” to talk to other patients in order to prepare her in becoming a counselor. I believe that this will give her more courage and strength, knowing that other people also have problems. She no longer will feel like the only one.

            I think that “Alice’s” time in the mental hospital will make her change even more for the better. Feeding off of other people’s problems will cause her to grow as a person and make her even more prepared for her desire to become a counselor.