I now give you a closing synopsis for my last blog post. I have finally finished Alice and can clearly state that I have now been notified of the crazed adventures and bad choices that has led to Alice's death. In the closing chapters of Alice's life I was presented with Alice being shipped off to an insane asylum for tearing, picking, and prodding apart her flesh. She had believed that upon her body lay bugs and maggots, all of which that were biting away at her skin. It first began while babysitting, she had taken a bite of a chocolate covered peanut that she had unknowingly ate had been laced with acid. Thus being the reason she was sent to get help. After being treated she finally recovered from the damage and had decided to stop writing in her diary. Two weeks late she was found dead from an overdose. Now you may ask yourself, is trying drugs once really that great of a decision?
Sorry for missing last weeks post! I will catch all of you guys up right now on what is happening in Alice's life!
After all of the makeups and breakups in relation to Alice's drug addiction it begins to foreshadow Alice's soon to become life. Everything seems to be clearing up and she even meets a college boy at her father's school where he works. It is not until later when I was reading that I discovered Alice's "episode" . Considering it was a long diary entry I will just paraphrase what occurred during her whole incident. Alice wakes up unaccounted to knowing who or where she is, and then realizes she had a random blackout, and had undressed herself to the point where she was lying naked on her floor. After the whole blackout arises she tries to forget about the whole incident even occurring and that she will be perfectly fine; and everything was until her grandfather had a stroke and then died. The tragic event caused Alice to become sordid and then after witnessing her own grandmothers depression she was even more sorrowful. Now here comes the life lesson part, the part where it is questioned how to deal with life when there is a dramatic downfall. Drugs signify the happiness that is felt while on them and the sadness is represented by Alice's life going down hill after using them. The use of drugs is an endless cycle used to cause happiness and then once again used to relieve ones mind from pain. Although it has yet to be discovered that the only way to overcome an obstacle is to go to someone for help, and it then when no one is present, that individuals turn to drugs. This is an announcement for all of those who perceive a life under the influence of drugs. This is a realization for all of those, "dumb, idiot kids who think they are only chipping are in reality just existing from one experience to the other" or in other words living from one high to the next. This week Alice has "done it again" (Anonymous 96) she just had pot and acid last night, and her realization is that a life without drugs is not meant to be lived , not meant to be seen, or enjoyed. For Alice the past couple of months she has tried to retain herself from the temptations of drugs. She has failed in the making, and is now hooked with the thirsts for more excitement. Alice believes that a life without drugs is, "a plodding , colorless, dissonant bare existence" (Anonymous 96) . Many who live a life around drugs only think of when, how, and the money needed to collect the tarnished abolishment of what they addict
(drugs). Yet I still question why one would want to escape from life in such a way that not only ruins you as a person, but damages your life. There are other routes and methods to take when over stressed and sordid from life, but never should the path be taken of consuming drugs. Once the young generations begin, they become addicted, whether it is an addictive drug or not, a drug is a drug. People nowadays even take pharmaceutical drugs for ones own enjoyment; but if you really think about life and the paths to take, if you're taking the route less traveled I will tell you right now , that it is not the one involving drugs. Living a life under the influence of drugs would not excel your way of living. If you are consistently under the influence of drugs are you even living? Or are you just existing? This weeks discussion will be focused on the way adolescents are treated and how it is seen through Alice's eyes. While writing in her diary her thoughts scattered upon the page as, "Adolescents have a rocky insecure time. Grown-ups treat them like children and expect them to act like adults. They give them orders like little animals, then expect them to react like mature, and always rational, self-assured persons of legal stature" (Anonymous 80). I for one can relate to Alice's statement, it stood out to me so much that in my findings of new events in Alice's life, I've decided to share this one comment. Most going through high school experience constant phases, trying to figure out who they are, and what their point of existence is. It never seems to help having parents give you responsibilities as an adult and then in return being treated like a child. We are young yes, but our minds constantly grow, the earning for intelligence and knowledge grows within us everyday, yet it seems like we're just expected to succeed. "It is a difficult, lost, vacillating time. Perhaps I have past over the worst part" (Anonymous 82).
Living seeking always in wonder, now those my friend are where all those in search for an adventurous life begin. Life is demonstrated to the wise, those full of knowledge of the truths of life, who have already experienced and observed the mysterious ways of human nature. On this weeks update Alice has realized going to a new place, and leaving home was ultimately not the greatest idea. She has now experienced Phase 1 of leaving. In time after opening a store with Chris (a.k.a her best friend she has moved with), and Christmas time around the corner, she begins to realize," I'm lonely, I'm heartbroken, I hate this whole number and everything it stands for, I feel like I'm wasting my life." Yes, moving and leaving your family, friends, and most importantly your education, is quite obscured. Alice's actions of leaving demonstrate that running away from your problems, and trying to "start over" can never be accomplished until all damage is fixed and problems are faced.
It started off slow, that feeling you get when you think a movies going to be lame and your only thought is, "wow I have to sit in this boring movie for 2 hours" and then BOOM the director pulls you in with action, crime, mystery, piece by piece it all comes together. Okay so as I'm reading "Go Ask Alice" by an anonymous author,the main character, a girl WHO HAS JUST TURNED 15 has taken LSD, Speed, and now can't wait to try weed, so yes already she has an appetite for.. actually she much rather take drugs so she can starve herself to lose weight, than having an appetite. Alice started off an innocent girl, not ever wanting to do drugs, with strong moral values, until the day came where she was invited to her new friends house for a little "gathering" I shall say. Anyway her new friend invites her over and is asked to play, "the button game" of course Alice has no idea what the game is hopes to be like everyone else, shes goes along with it along with it. Well it turns out, the game had involved her friend bringing out a tray of sodas containing only a few spiked with LSD, and then finding out who had received the drug after everyone had consumed his/her beverage.
I have been reading, "Go Ask Alice" for awhile now and in order to make time with my busy schedule I have set a goal of 30 pages a week and this week I've read 60, so lets just say the author has won this battle. And I'm hooked, with a fascination of someone else's life and how someone so pure could slowly deteriorate as an individual with one poor choice. As a high school student I can relate to Alice's story, I know individuals who have been tempted the same way as Alice and how my father always says, "The choices you make now can effect you for the rest of your life" and every Friday when my dance teacher states, "make good choices" but no one really thinks about those choices that will determine the rest of what their life, do they? |
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