Go Ask Alice,
written by an anonymous author is apparently a real diary, written by a
teenage girl. Since the diary is true, many names of people and places
have been altered to keep the author confidential. Having read only a
couple entries, I have yet to read the darkest moments. However, you can
already tell that the protagonist is feeling depressed and unstable.
For
example, in the first entry, she writes “Yesterday I remember thinking I
was the happiest person in the whole earth, in the whole galaxy, in all
of God’s creation… Now it’s all smashed down upon my head and I wish I
could just melt into the blaaaa-ness of the universe and cease to
exist.” This demonstrates how the author was at one point happy, but can
be easily brought down, she extensively explains the downfall of her
happiness. Her being sad isn’t just her being sad, she is grieving and
she is depressed, just because a boy dumped her. This gives some clue as
to what will happen in the future. Will there be a higher peak and a
greater crash? Will the grief lead into something much worse than just
crying and stress-eating?
Is Go Ask Alice
actually true, or is it a marketing technique? Did people buy more
copies because they believed that it was a true story? As I read, I will
make sure to realize mistakes or unlikely eb=vents to determine whether
or not the book is truly someone’s diary.
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