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1.1. What do you associate with the title of the novel?
The book is named “Go Ask Alice”. I am really not sure what I associate with it, because the title is insignificant. I know that the book is about a girl with drug related problems so I associate that the girl is named Alice and she is the “go-to-girl”, when anyone has a question about drugs.
1.2. What is a diary? Why do people write diaries? Alice says, ‘Diaries are great when you’re young.’ Do you agree? Why / Why not?
A diary is a written record of daily events, facts, and experiences and it is usually for private use only. Sometimes diarys can be very helpful for yourself in a consulting way.
But I don’t think that diares are great when you are young, because its just like another part of you. You can also think about your problems, you don’t have to write them down. I just think that they are great when you are old to see what you have done in the past. I never had have a diary, because I wouldn’t spend much time to write in it or I would be too lazy to.
1.3. Go ask Alice first appeared in 1971. Collect all relevant information on this historical background. (Political / cultural / social issues / San Francisco) and put them in your folder.
The seventies were a crucial decade where America underwent fundamental economic restructuring and social experimentation. Unable to solve its problems through political action, Americans looked to personal change and fulfillment.
Politics:
• 1963: the President of the USA John F.Kennedy was shot in Texas
• 1964: Lydon Johnson new President,
• Civil Right Act signed – no discrimination anymore
• 1965: Vietnam War – The communist North Vietnam fight with the South Vietnam together with America
• 1969: new President Richard Nixon
• 1974: new President Gerlad R. Ford
Culture:
• Revolution: abolishment of the old conservative ideas (values, education, lifestyle)
• Individualistic ideas established
Social issues:
• Anti War Movement in the 60s: protests in all social classes
• “Me Decade” in the 70s: economic consequences, mixed child care, child abuse
• The assault on reason, science and academia
San Francisco:
• Sommer of love: The Summer of Love refers to the summer of 1967, particularly in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, when the hippie movement came to public awareness.
2.2. Make a timeline of the development of the main character; this timeline should include the main steps of Alices’s development.
September-October Starts her diet
Being hurt by Roger
1/4 Moving away
5/13 Friendship with Beth
7/10 First drug experience
8/6 First time S*x (being under drugs)
9/6 Meet chris
9/26 New boy friend
Alice becomes a dealer
10/26 Arrives in San Francisco
November-Dezember Try to mamage everything on her own
12/22 Returning home
24/1 Starts to take drugs again
unknown dates Alice runs away / deep in the drug milleau
6/4 Alice starts her new diary and her life without drugs
5/5 Grandfather dies
5/22 Alice meets Joel
6/16 Grandmother dies
7/7 Alice eatsa nut and has a bad trip
After 7/7 Alice is a captive in jail for selling drugs
8/9 Returning home
8/9 Returning home
October Overdose – Alice’s death
2.3. Make a list of the main themes/problems Alice has to fight with
• - lovesickness
• - deeply in love with Roger -> starts diary
• - sometimes bad in school
• - homelessness
• - death of grandparents
• - living on her own
• - being an outsider
• - being drug addicted
• - being captive in a jail
• - wrong relationships
2.4. Reap pp. 1-13 closely. Discuss: Is Alice presented here as a typical drug-victim?
At first one must define what a typical drug-victim is. A common definition is that a 'typical' drug-victim has his first contacts to drugs on parties or similar events and later he takes more and also harder drugs. Alice is presented in the beginnig of the novel as a normal teenager, but also as a very labile person what means that she is fragile to drugs. It seems that her social problems push her into the drug millieu where she is looking for help. In this direction, one can say that alice is a typical drug-victim. But on the other hand Alice made her first and her last experiences without prior agreement (her overdose not included). At last everyone has to decide for himself if Alice is a typical drug victim. In my opinion she is.
2.5. Alice’s drug career: stages / motives (make a list)
Stages:
1. LSD in a coke
2. testing many kinds of drugs
3. drug-addicted
4. having S*x (being under drugs)
5. becoming a dealer
6. tries to be clean
7. relapse
8. vicious circle of becoming clean and addicted again
9. being captive in a jail
10. overdose – death
Motives:
• Made first experience without prior agreement.
• She didn’t want to be an outsider anymore
• Of course she got addicted
• Bad friends made her sell drugs
2.6. Alice in context: her home / environment / school(s) / peer group / herself. Make a table.
context Alice's attitude
family • In the beginnig disturbing, at the end important as an last instance
• don’t know the whole truth
• Alice isn’t very close to them
home • At first unimportant (just her place to live)
• At the end important for her as a safe place to live.
environtment • At first she has many friends
• at the end she is very lonely
• She has many temporal friends, who weren’t really interested in her as a person, but as a drug user
school(s) • A place she has to go to. A must.
peer group • makes life worth to live
• later it doesn’t exist
herself • Her attitude to herself veries very often.
• Sometimes she is very positive and sometimes she thinks about killing herself
2.8. Alice’s language: What strikes you?
Alice belongs to a high educated family and of course she speaks high class language at the beginning of the book. But while reading the book one can see that Alice’s language maintains more and more expressions from the slang while she is using drugs. Alice’s language is related to her drug consuming. Whenever she is clean, she uses the high class language she learned from her parents and from school. But everytime she is in the drug-milleau she uses slang.
2.9. Make a shooting-script for a scene of your choice.
Scene: Epilogue
1 A black screen
2 The view switches to the total view of a camera in Alice’s living room
3 Alice lies on the floor, the eyes wide open
4 mournful music starts to play
5 The camera zooms to her face, but the picture gets bleared (I don’t want to be cruel)
6 The camera turns to the frontside-door.
7 The parents are entering the room
8 The camera zooms to the mother’s face. You can see that she is screaming, but the viewer can’t hear her.
9 The view turns to a black screen again.
10 The viewer can see the cursive script: “Was it an accidental overdose? A premeditated overdose? No one knows, and in some ways that question isn’t important. What must be of concern is that she died, and that she was only one of thousands of drug deaths that year.”
1.1. What do you associate with the title of the novel?
The book is named “Go Ask Alice”. I am really not sure what I associate with it, because the title is insignificant. I know that the book is about a girl with drug related problems so I assume that the girl is named Alice and she is the “go-to-girl”, when anyone has a question about drugs.
1.2. What is a diary? Why do people write diaries? Alice says, ‘Diaries are great when you’re young.’ Do you agree? Why / Why not?
A diary is a written record of daily events, facts, and experiences and it is usually for private use only. Sometimes diaries can be very helpful for yourself in a consulting way.
But I don’t think that diaries are great when you are young, because its just like another part of you. You can also think about your problems, you don’t have to write them down. I just think that they are great when you are old to see what you have done in the past. I never would have a diary, because I wouldn’t spend much time to write in it or I would be too lazy to.
1.3. Go ask Alice first appeared in 1971. Collect all relevant information on this historical background. (Political / cultural / social issues / San Francisco) and put them in your folder.
The seventies were a crucial decade where America underwent fundamental economic restructuring and social experimentation. Unable to solve its problems through political action, Americans looked to personal change and fulfillment.
Politics:
• 1963: the President of the USA John F.Kennedy was shot in Texas
• 1964: Lydon Johnson new President,
• Civil Right Act signed – no discrimination anymore
• 1965: Vietnam War – The communist North Vietnamese fight with the South Vietnamese together with America
• 1969: new President Richard Nixon
• 1974: new President Gerlad R. Ford
Culture:
• Revolution: abolishment of the old conservative ideas (values, education, lifestyle)
• Individualistic ideas established
Social issues:
• Anti War Movement in the 60s: protests in all social classes
• “Me Decade” in the 70s: economic consequences, mixed child care, child abuse
• The assault on reason, science and academia
San Francisco:
• Sommer of love: The Summer of Love refers to the summer of 1967, particularly in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, when the hippie movement came to public awareness.
2.2. Make a timeline of the development of the main character; this timeline should include the main steps of Alices’s development.
September-October Starts her diet
Being hurt by Roger
1/4 Moving away
5/13 Friendship with Beth
7/10 First drug experience
8/6 First time S*x (being under drugs)
9/6 Meet chris
9/26 New boyfriend
Alice becomes a dealer
10/26 Arrives in San Francisco
November-December Try to mamage everything on her own
12/22 Returns home
24/1 Starts to take drugs again
unknown dates Alice runs away / deep in the drug milleau
6/4 Alice starts her new diary and her life without drugs
5/5 Grandfather dies
5/22 Alice meets Joel
6/16 Grandmother dies
7/7 Alice eatsa nut and has a bad trip
After 7/7 Alice is jailed [oder "goes to jail"] for selling drugs
8/9 Returning home
8/9 Returning home
October Overdose – Alice’s death
2.3. Make a list of the main themes/problems Alice has to fight with
• - lovesickness
• - deeply in love with Roger -> starts diary
• - sometimes bad in school
• - homelessness
• - death of grandparents
• - living on her own
• - being an outsider
• - being drug addicted
• - being captive in a jail
• - wrong relationships
2.4. Reap pp. 1-13 closely. Discuss: Is Alice presented here as a typical drug-victim?
At first one must define what a typical drug victim is. A common definition is that a 'typical' drug victim has his first contact with drugs at parties or similar events and later he takes more and also harder drugs. Alice is presented in the beginnig of the novel as a normal teenager, but also as a very labile [??????????] person which means that she is fragile to drugs. It seems that her social problems push her into the drug millieu where she is looking for help. In this direction [?????????], one can say that alice is a typical drug victim. But on the other hand Alice made her first and her last experiences without prior agreement (her overdose not included). Everyone has to decide for himself if Alice is a typical drug victim. In my opinion she is.
2.5. Alice’s drug career: stages / motives (make a list)
Stages:
1. LSD in a coke [?????????]
2. testing many kinds of drugs
3. drug-addicted
4. having S*x (while under the influence of drugs)
5. becoming a dealer
6. tries to become [oder "get"] clean
7. relapse
8. vicious circle of becoming clean and addicted again
9. jail time
10. overdose – death
Motives:
• Made first experience without prior agreement. [????????]
• She didn’t want to be an outsider anymore
• Of course she got addicted
• Bad friends made her sell drugs
2.6. Alice in context: her home / environment / school(s) / peer group / herself. Make a table.
context Alice's attitude
family • In the beginnig disturbing, at the end important as an last instance
• don’t know the whole truth
• Alice isn’t very close to them
home • At first unimportant (just her place to live)
• At the end important for her as a safe place to live.
environtment • At first she has many friends
• at the end she is very lonely
• She has many temporal friends, who weren’t really interested in her as a person, but as a drug user
school(s) • A place she has to go to. A must.
peer group • makes life worth to live
• later it doesn’t exist
herself • Her attitude to herself veries very often.
• Sometimes she is very positive and sometimes she thinks about killing herself
2.8. Alice’s language: What strikes you?
Alice belongs to a highly educated family and of course she speaks in high class language at the beginning of the book. But while reading the book one can see that Alice’s language incorporates more and more slang while she is using drugs. Alice’s language is related to her drug use. Whenever she is clean, she uses the high class language she learned from her parents and from school. But everytime she is in the drug-milleau she uses slang.
2.9. Make a shooting-script for a scene of your choice.
Scene: Epilogue
1 A black screen
2 The view switches to the total view of a camera in Alice’s living room
3 Alice lies on the floor, the eyes wide open
4 mournful music starts to play
5 The camera zooms to her face, but the picture gets bleared (I don’t want to be cruel)
6 The camera turns to the frontside-door.
7 The parents enter the room
8 The camera zooms to the mother’s face. You can see that she is screaming, but the viewer can’t hear her.
9 The view turns to a black screen again.
10 The viewer can see the cursive script: “Was it an accidental overdose? A premeditated overdose? No one knows, and in some ways that question isn’t important. What must be of concern is that she died, and that she was only one of thousands of drug deaths that year.”
