Go Ask Alice

Surrounded by her own self-loath, the main character of Go Ask Alice, describes her life in ways that connect to people universally. From the beginning -- which she describes herself and bubbly, easy going, and fun, to the end where every day is a struggle to find a feed to her drug addiction.  Seeing the way things change from the first to the last page sends people for a whiplash and makes the reader feel as though they are just as high as she is. The ending is brutal, really, ending with a sad suicide of the main character.

This thrilling novel can be considered a person to person text, because she struggles with herself to find true happiness, and she competes with herself to find a way out of drugs, prostitution and self harm. The main character isn't looking to please anyone but herself. Personally, I believe that she didn't care about herself at the end of the book, and she didn't care what she looked like or how she acted -- which is another whiplash. The end of the book throws everything off thought, when it appears she is back onto the right track, and then she tragically kills herself. I don't know what's more confusing -- the fact that she started going down the right path, or how she abruptly stopped.