Go Ask Alice
1. Alice, the writer of the diary. She's 15 years old when the story begins. Her real name is not known.
Mom, her mother, and Dad, her father, a university professor.
Alex(andria), her sister.
Tim, her brother.
Gran, her grandmother, and Gramps, her grandfather.
Roger, a schoolmate with whome she is in love for some time.
Jill Peters, a schoolmate at her first school.
Gerta, Beth, Fawn, friends she meet at her new school.
Jan, Marcie, drug-users at her new school.
Richie, Ted, pushers.
Bill, Joe, Lane, Jacky, drug-users.
Chris, a girl with whome Alice goes to San Francisco.
Mario Mellani, Alice's employer in San Francisco.
Sheila, Chris's employer in San Francisco.
Doris, a ...
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the way she started using drugs.
4. On the first page of her diary, Alice writes about life at school. She feels unhappy about Roger, a boy she likes very much, pays no attention te her. He asked her to go out with him, but he didn't come te meet her. Alice has also trouble with her weight. When her father gets a new job, she's very excited because they're going to move to a different town. But as the moving day draws near, she feels afraid, and sorry to leave the house she always lived in. It takes Alice a long time to make friends at her new school. First she goes out with a girl named Gerta. Later in may she finds a real friend in Beth Baum, a Jewish girl. Alice and Beth feel both terrible when they can't spend the holiday together.
Alice spends part of the summer holidays with het grandparents, in the town where she used to live. She feels quite bored untill she meets Jill Peters, an old friend , who invites her to a party. At the party Alice is given a Coke with LSD in ...
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sit to talk about their problems. In December the girls get homesick and return to their families.Alice's family gives her a wonderful welcome, showing how much they love her. Alice has a happy Chistmas.
The drug-users at school will not let Alice alone. Near the end of January Chris starts taking drugs again, and Alice does too. One evening the police find drugs in Chris's house, but the girls tell their parents that they have not used them. Alice's parents watch her closely and send her to a psychiatrist. She cannot stand all this, so in March she runs away from home again. This time she's going to Denver and then to Coos Bay in Oregon. She sleeps in a park and then she's helped by ...
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