Go Ask Alice :: alice

Long Hard Road of Adolescence Reading through the novel, Go subscribe to Alice, finding out all of the unbelievable, yet true, experiences and feelings of Alice is quite shocking. No subject how shocking they may seem, you can very easily relate those experiences and feelings to those of a typical day-in and day-out teenager. Those characteristics being loneliness, a generation gap, and defiance. At the beginning of the novel, Alice finds herself to be very lonely. As like new(prenominal) teenagers, she goes through m all stimulated states that may lead to dieting, starving oneself, or binge eating. at that place are also finding such things as getting into inform or club activities, possibly getting a job. Those few things would be the most reasonable approaches to resolving the problem and will keep teens from mentation lonely and depressing thoughts. Although what is unfortunate is that Alice, along with a throne of other teenagers, turn to medicines and alcohol as an esc ape. Once they start doing the drugs, the drugs replace those worst feelings.The generation gap is another good characteristic seen in the novel. When Alice and her family moved, she started to win over her appearance in ways her parents didnt like and they were also upturned because of this change in Alice. She starts to dress like a hippie, wearing moccasins and attire with fringe. She also starts to iron her hair flat instead of wearing it with a flip. With her parents nagging at her about her change in appearance make her want to breakdown. All the feelings bottle up inside of Alice, which leads to more drug use. The situation that Alice went through is a typical situation between any other teenager and their parents. Many times throughout the novel, Alice pretty more than does what she wants, when she wants no matter what. Such as when Chris and Alice go to San Francisco. They are in total control of themselves, Alice never likes when her parents try and tell her somethin g. A lot like teenagers today go against their parents will. Alice was always welcomed home whenever she wanted to go back.