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Go Ask Alice

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Go Ask Alice	comment	Go Ask Alice is a novel first published in 1971. It is the story of a troubled young woman who seeks solace in drugs and the counterculture. She comes to grief as a result. It is famous for its Drugs Are Bad message, being banned for references to sex, rape and drugs, and [confirmed several times, most recently in 2022] being a fake. Rather than being a Real Life diary of a young drug addict, it is the work of Beatrice Sparks, who attempted to pass it off as true for a number of years. It is classic School Study Media.The novel is a dark Coming of Age Story. The work takes the form of a "diary", the keeper of which is not named. Readers usually call her Alice, from the title, or Carla, based on a remark she drops late in the story.note Rick Emerson, author of Unmask Alice which reveals the details of Sparks' deceptive practices, found the real woman alive and well and calls her Brenda March, but emphasizes that's not her real name either. She's a sensitive fifteen-year-old girl, alienated from her conservative parents and initially with few friends, having just moved to a new town. When she does start making friends and discovers the The '60s counterculture, she also encounters drugs. Her first experience is benign: she is unwittingly given LSD at her friend Jill's birthday party and has a pleasant trip.Losing her virginity while on LSD, she feels guilty about this and her drug use. With female friend Chris she takes to dealing drugs for their respective boyfriends. Upon discovering said boyfriends having sex with each other, they leave for San Francisco, leaving their families as well. (Drugs apparently make you gay as well, although the narrator has already had romantic feelings towards women before trying drugs. Horrors!!!)In San Francisco, they move into a small apartment and get jobs. Their vow to stay clean does not last—in fact, they use harder drugs. While on heroin at a party, both girls are raped. They return home for Christmas, again vow to stay off drugs, again relapse, and this time are busted and our heroine gets probation. Running away again she spends the next few weeks in a drug-induced haze skirting along the West Coast. In her sober moments, she is horrified at what she's become and again returns home, determined to stay off drugs for real this time. However, she's now harassed by her former stoner friends who accuse her of being a "fink" and frame her for drug possession. After inadvertently ingesting acid (planted by her former friends) and suffering a nearly-fatal bad trip, the narrator is sent to an asylum, where she sorta bonds with a younger and even more broken girl named Babbie.The portrayal of Sixties drug culture (and "hippie" references) is limited, and in fact laughably inaccurate. Tellingly, The Vietnam War, Civil Rights Movement, general political protest and music are scarcely mentioned. It works best as a critique of the hedonistic excesses of the psychedelic movement. As a "warning work," it has similarities to Requiem for a Dream. It has a similar theme of disenchanted youth going off the rails as is found in The Catcher in the Rye.Adapted into a 1973 Made-for-TV Movie starring William Shatner, Andy Griffith, and (ironically, given her own drug use at the time) Mackenzie Phillips, among others.In 2022, Rick Emerson published a book, Unmask Alice, which reveals the truth about this classic literary hoax and about the real tragedy behind her later work, Jay's Journal. Sparks was a Mormon youth counselor hellbent on Being Somebody, and she didn't care what lies she had to tell or whose memories she had to destroy to get there.If you are looking for the trope that used to have this name, please see Alice Allusion.
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Go Ask Alice / int_130436b9	type	Annoying Younger Sibling
Go Ask Alice / int_130436b9	comment	Annoying Younger Sibling: Carla's relationship with her younger brother Tim and younger sister Alexandria is rocky, to put it mildly, at the beginning of the novel. It's implied Tim can be downright cruel to his older sister at times and is ashamed of her, especially after she runs away from home. As a result of running away, though, she begins to appreciate her younger siblings more, and she and Tim become very close.
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Go Ask Alice / int_15177ded	type	The Runaway
Go Ask Alice / int_15177ded	comment	The Runaway: At several points, the narrator runs away from home and goes on the bus to another city. She also meets several teens who have also run away in the past.
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Go Ask Alice / int_16e94b0a	type	Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll
Go Ask Alice / int_16e94b0a	comment	Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: There's plenty of sex and drugs, but little or no mention of rock in the book (there's a bit of music in the film, of course). This is one of the least realistic elements. Music, particularly electric amplified rock, acoustic "folk" or "folk-rock", and rock-inspired pop, was one of the driving forces behind 1960s culture and counterculture, especially the drug scene. Other than the title referencing Jefferson Airplane's ode to LSD, the music isn't nearly as much of a presence as it should be. Sparks probably couldn't have the narrator quoting lyrics without a lot of work to secure copyright permission, but mentioning more artist names and song titles could have provided additional credence.
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Go Ask Alice / int_1c5599e4	type	Reformed, but Rejected
Go Ask Alice / int_1c5599e4	comment	Reformed, but Rejected: Even after she gets clean and sober, Carla finds that her "straight" classmates nevertheless want nothing to do with anyone with a "doper" reputation, while the dopers themselves now suspect her of being a narc and set out to make her life a living hell. By the end of the book, however, she's beginning to make friends with some "straight" kids who don't know about her past. Of course, it's just in time for her to die of an overdose.
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Go Ask Alice / int_1da3a484	type	Alice Allusion
Go Ask Alice / int_1da3a484	comment	Alice Allusion: In relay: the book is named from "White Rabbit", a song by the contemporary psychedelic band Jefferson Airplane who in turn saw drug imagery in Alice in Wonderland. This was a very common insight among the stoned; the narrator also wonders if Lewis Carroll was on drugs when he wrote it. The 1973 TV movie, unsurprisingly, uses a cover of the song as its opening and closing theme.
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Go Ask Alice / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
Go Ask Alice / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: Carla is regularly propositioned by older men in San Francisco - while their wives are present. Then there's Rod, who actually participates in sexually assaulting her and Chris.
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Go Ask Alice / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Go Ask Alice / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Her struggles and eventual insights and growth are rendered sadly pointless by the epilogue.
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Go Ask Alice / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
Go Ask Alice / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Sheila the fashion designer. She and her boyfriend Rod are the ones who rape both the narrator and Chris in San Francisco.
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Go Ask Alice / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Go Ask Alice / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The movie version omits Carla's younger sister Alexandria and her grandparents, among other characters.
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Go Ask Alice / int_33d5c59d	type	Relationship Revolving Door
Go Ask Alice / int_33d5c59d	comment	Relationship Revolving Door: For the first half of the novel the diarist has an on-and-off relationship with a handsome boy named Roger, with whom she is virtually obsessed for a time. It apparently ends when Roger goes away to military school and the two lose touch due to the diarist's drug use and attendant adventures. After getting clean, the narrator meets a new boy named Joel, and we can assume Roger is completely in the wind at this point.
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Go Ask Alice / int_3618ebb9	type	TheSixties
Go Ask Alice / int_3618ebb9	comment	The '60s: The setting, as filtered through an anti-drugs activist. By contrast, the film version either plainly takes place in The '70s or is an example of Anachronism Stew in regards to pop music, as hinted by the use of popular songs such as "Do You Know What I Mean" by Lee Michaels and "Outa-Space" by Billy Preston (both hits in the early half of the '70s).
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Go Ask Alice / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
Go Ask Alice / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Yes, of an overdose two weeks after her final diary entry. It's unknown if it was accidental or suicide.
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Go Ask Alice / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Go Ask Alice / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: It's not mentioned exactly how Carla and Chris "manage" to stay in drugs after their connection, Lane, is forced to "go straight" after he's caught by the cops. Given that Carla mentions in the same diary entry she's considering taking the pill, it could be assumed that they've started prostituting for either drugs or the cash to buy them. Later on, Carla does indeed start selling sexual favors for drugs when she runs away for the second time.
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Go Ask Alice / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Go Ask Alice / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: In the book, Carla's employers lock her into a closet while she's suffering a bad trip. In the television movie, however, Carla's last sane act before the acid kicks in is to lock herself into the closet to protect the infant in her care.
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Go Ask Alice / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
Go Ask Alice / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: It's mentioned that the kids at the youth center call everyone but the doctors by their given names.
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Go Ask Alice / int_419a459d	type	FantasyForbiddingParent
Go Ask Alice / int_419a459d	comment	Fantasy-Forbidding Parent: Minor character Mike's parents think only "weaklings and bums" are artists. This caused him to run away from home.
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Go Ask Alice / int_42e72657	type	Post-Stress Overeating
Go Ask Alice / int_42e72657	comment	Post-Stress Overeating: Before she discovers drugs, Carla's way of dealing with her unhappiness and loneliness at school is eating junk food. After her first day of school goes badly, she drowns her sorrows in a malt, French fries and chocolate bar at the drugstore.
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Go Ask Alice / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Go Ask Alice / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Our girl suddenly dies on the final page.
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Go Ask Alice / int_4478c66d	type	Flashback Nightmare
Go Ask Alice / int_4478c66d	comment	Flashback Nightmare: After getting clean and sober, she is hit with one out of the blue while doing her homework one evening.
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Go Ask Alice / int_4548bae	type	Teen Pregnancy
Go Ask Alice / int_4548bae	comment	Teen Pregnancy: The narrator has several scares starting when she loses her virginity at fifteen. The first one escalates her drug dependency, as she's so worried about possibly being pregnant that she's unable to sleep and ends up stealing sleeping pills from her grandfather and later getting a prescription for tranquilizers (which, it's implied, she continues to abuse even after it turns out she's not pregnant). She mentions that no drug addict can use birth control pills because they don't know what day it is.
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Go Ask Alice / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Go Ask Alice / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Carla starts out a peppy, if awkward and insecure, fifteen-year-old before getting mixed with drugs.
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Go Ask Alice / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Go Ask Alice / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: At first you think it's going to have a happy ending with the main character changing her life for the better. But then in the epilogue, you find out that she died three weeks later of an overdose. It's not clear if it was an accidental one, if it was a suicide by premeditated overdose, or if perhaps she was murdered by her former doper friends.
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Go Ask Alice / int_5002845	type	Warm Milk Helps You Sleep
Go Ask Alice / int_5002845	comment	Warm Milk Helps You Sleep: The narrator's mother makes them warm milk on a long, sleepless night after Gramps's funeral.
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Go Ask Alice / int_55232afa	type	Politically Incorrect Hero
Go Ask Alice / int_55232afa	comment	Politically Incorrect Hero: Probably due to Values Dissonance or maybe even the drugs, but the narrator has nasty opinions on LGBT people. She uses slurs often. This even applies to her own bi-curiosity.
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Go Ask Alice / int_57efd4c4	type	Growing Up Sucks
Go Ask Alice / int_57efd4c4	comment	Growing Up Sucks: She contemplates this idea several times.
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Go Ask Alice / int_59938d30	type	Better than Sex
Go Ask Alice / int_59938d30	comment	Better than Sex: Better than sober sex, anyway. Carla loses her virginity to fellow doper Bill and then becomes sexually active with drug dealer Richie, but notes at one point that they only ever make love when they're stoned and she wonders whether sexual intercourse while one is sober could be so exciting. Later, after getting clean, she mentions she somehow feels as though she is still a virgin despite all the sex she's had while stoned.
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Go Ask Alice / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Go Ask Alice / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The 1973 made-for-TV movie version condenses the storyline of the novel considerably. Missing from the movie are Carla/Alice's angsting over her crush, Roger; most of her adventures as a runaway; and her time in a mental hospital after her freak-out, among other things. Roger, Carla's grandparents and younger sister, Babbie, and other important supporting characters in the novel do not appear in the film. Shelia and Rod, a couple who sexually assault Carla and Chris in the novel, appear only briefly in a flashback scene in the film (and are not mentioned by name). There's a considerable amount of Bowdlerization due to content as well. On the other hand, the movie also adds a scene of "Alice" being busted by her parents for pill possession. In the book, it's the cops who bust Carla and Chris for drugs at Chris's house. In both versions, the narrator tries to talk her way out of trouble; it works in the movie, but not in the novel, where she ends up with a criminal record and is placed on a very tight leash by her parents (which leads to her running away a second time, which is also not in the film).
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Go Ask Alice / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
Go Ask Alice / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: One character's step-father raped her starting when she was eleven.
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Go Ask Alice / int_61313315	type	Off the Wagon
Go Ask Alice / int_61313315	comment	Off the Wagon: Carla swears off drugs cold turkey on several occasions only to end up re-hooked. Just when it appears she's strong enough to finally stay clean and sober for good, she dies of an overdose, though it's not clarified how she got the drugs or whether she took them willingly.
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Go Ask Alice / int_6238a13a	type	Marijuana Is LSD
Go Ask Alice / int_6238a13a	comment	Marijuana Is LSD: Apparently, marijuana was much better in the '60s.
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Go Ask Alice / int_71fa50b5	type	New Transfer Student
Go Ask Alice / int_71fa50b5	comment	New Transfer Student: The book begins with our heroine moving to a new town a few pages in. Her awkwardness at her new school leads to her falling in with the wrong crowd.
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Go Ask Alice / int_77ed6b7d	type	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
Go Ask Alice / int_77ed6b7d	comment	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Epidemic, considering the book's theme. The protagonist is barely fifteen when she spirals into a life full of promiscuity, heavy drug use, sexual abuse, and pill pushing. She mentions selling drugs to children as young as eight. Several of the minor characters also had difficult lives from young ages, such as how Babbie began using drugs at eleven and became a prostitute at twelve.
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Go Ask Alice / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Go Ask Alice / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Just when you thought Beatrice Sparks couldn't take the narrator any lower and more degraded, we have this charming entry: "I don't know what or when or who it is! I only know that I am now a Priestess of Satan trying to maintainnote To stay calm and steady, even while on drugs after a freak-outnote presumably a collective drug-induced unhinged loss of control to test how free everybody was and to take our vows." Yep, she went there.
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Go Ask Alice / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Go Ask Alice / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: In the movie version, Chris is never heard from or seen again after "Alice" returns home to her family, and it's unresolved as to whether Chris made it home at all. In the novel, it's mentioned that Chris and her family moved away (it can be assumed this happened while Carla was away for the second time, since she left by herself and Chris did not accompany her), but not whether she was able to get off drugs (since she had relapsed when last we saw her).
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Go Ask Alice / int_8bd16732	type	The Law of Conservation of Detail
Go Ask Alice / int_8bd16732	comment	The Law of Conservation of Detail: The fact that the book follows this is cited by Snopes as evidence that it is fake. After all, one would expect a real teenage girl's diary to ramble on about silly gossip rather than focusing so much on her plot-relevant drug addiction (for example, an extended description of her first drug trip, but almost nothing about being stood up by a boy, or even losing her virginity). When this first came out, many reviewers simply assumed it had been edited to take out all the chit-chat.
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Go Ask Alice / int_986bd638	type	This Is a Work of Fiction
Go Ask Alice / int_986bd638	comment	This Is a Work of Fiction: Though it's marketed as the real-life diary of a teenage girl, the copyright page gives you the truth: "This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental."
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Go Ask Alice / int_9cad69bf	type	Depraved Homosexual
Go Ask Alice / int_9cad69bf	comment	Depraved Homosexual: The drug dealers Richie and Ted.
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Go Ask Alice / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Go Ask Alice / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: In her sober moments, the narrator regrets the pain and shame her drug habit, and especially her running away from home, has brought her family.
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Go Ask Alice / int_a1fedb67	type	Parental Obliviousness
Go Ask Alice / int_a1fedb67	comment	Parental Obliviousness: The narrator finds it hilarious that her parents approve of their daughter's newfound popularity without realizing she's fallen in with the drug crowd. Similarly, they scold her for her clothes and use of slang while overlooking the far more important fact that she's popping tranquilizers and uppers right in front of them. This is illustrated in the television movie by a scene in which Alice's friends attend her birthday party, while her parents can't tell that all of these kids—including their daughter—are stoned out of their minds.
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Go Ask Alice / int_a3a7c41	type	Black Sheep
Go Ask Alice / int_a3a7c41	comment	Black Sheep: Even before her drug experimentation begins, Carla considers herself as such due to her social awkwardness and insecurity and is constantly comparing herself to her seemingly more well-adjusted younger siblings. In her sober moments, she realizes that she's become the Black Sheep for real, as she regrets the pain and shame she's brought her family.
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Go Ask Alice / int_a4cd4fc6	type	Cruel Twist Ending
Go Ask Alice / int_a4cd4fc6	comment	Cruel Twist Ending: Carla's got her life back together, is making new friends, and has a boyfriend... Then the epilogue notes that she died of a drug overdose two weeks later.
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Go Ask Alice / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Go Ask Alice / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Chris's parents are so busy, and spend so much time fighting when they aren't busy, that they never have time for her. It takes Chris's drug escapade to bring her parents back together.
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Go Ask Alice / int_a6209f13	type	Insert Song
Go Ask Alice / int_a6209f13	comment	Insert Song: In the 1973 Made-for-TV Movie adaptation, a cover of Traffic's "Dear Mr. Fantasy" is used as background music for a drug party "Alice" is attending, and shows up again during the bad trip that sends her to the mental hospital.
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Go Ask Alice / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Beth, Carla's Jewish best friend, is one in the movie version. In the novel, Beth is never mentioned again after Carla notes that Beth found a boyfriend at "Jewish summer camp" and never has time for her anymore. In the movie, it's "Alice" who dumps Beth for being a "square" who isn't into drugs. "Alice" tries to resume her friendship with Beth after getting clean, but Beth rejects her due to "Alice"'s bad reputation; however, by the end of the film, the two girls have made up.
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Go Ask Alice / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Go Ask Alice / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: The narrator has a habit of trebling certain words for emphasis: her hair is "long, long, long"; having joints to smoke when she's by herself is "nice, nice, nice"; and so on. This was a popular expression back then, and can often be heard in commercials.
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Go Ask Alice / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Go Ask Alice / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: She often mentions her feelings on death and dying. Guess what happens to her? The same applies to her elation post-recovery.
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Go Ask Alice / int_ab8e26e2	type	Slipping a Mickey
Go Ask Alice / int_ab8e26e2	comment	Slipping a Mickey: How the protagonist gets her first hit of LSD: she drinks a bottle of soda laced with the drug. It's a beautiful trip, and she immediately spirals headlong into full-blown drug experimentation and addiction. At one point she even considers doing this to her younger brother. Later in the book, it nearly costs the heroine her life, as she eats some candy (in the film, she drinks a bottle of cola, just as she did the first time) unaware that it's spiked with acid (apparently done by her former stoner friends); this time, it's a bad trip and nearly kills her.
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Go Ask Alice / int_ac9af088	type	Relationship-Salvaging Disaster
Go Ask Alice / int_ac9af088	comment	Relationship-Salvaging Disaster: The parents of Chris, whose marriage had been on the rocks (apparently due to the father's extramarital affairs), apparently reconcile due to their concern about their daughter. Later on, it's mentioned that Chris and her parents moved away to a new city, sparing Chris the difficulties the heroine experiences with her former "grass gang" friends. At the height of said difficulties, Carla briefly considers moving to Seattle to live with relatives to get away from the harassment.
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Go Ask Alice / int_ac9cac61	type	Scare 'Em Straight
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Go Ask Alice / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
Go Ask Alice / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: Ticks the boxes.
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Go Ask Alice / int_b2e94341	type	Based on a Great Big Lie
Go Ask Alice / int_b2e94341	comment	Based on a Great Big Lie: Ostensibly the real diary of a teenage girl, it was in fact entirely fabricated by Sparks. She later released a series of other "true diaries" in the same vein, but dealing with different subjects, such as AIDS (It Happened to Nancy), teen pregnancy (Annie's Baby), and depression-linked Satanism, we kid you not (Jay's Journal). According to Rick Emerson's research, Sparks likely took inspiration from the troubles of a real teenage girl she worked with at a Mormon summer camp, but the diary, and Carla/"Alice", are entirely Spark's fabrications. Ironically, the success of Go Ask Alice convinced the family of Alden Barrett—a teenage boy suffering from depression that drove him to commit suicide at age 16—to give their late son's journal to Sparks for editing, in hopes that she would turn the journal into a cautionary tale for other parents of at-risk children. Instead, Sparks expanded a single mention of the occult into a major theme of the book. The result, titled Jay's Journal, depicts Jay as a Satan worshipper who sacrifices animals, drinks blood, and is ultimately driven to suicide by a demon he has summoned. Of the 212 "entries" in Jay's Journal, 187 were found to have been fabricated by Sparks. Meanwhile, after the book's publication, Barrett's gravesite was repeatedly vandalized by both religious extremists claiming he was burning in hell, and by would-be Satanists who conducted rituals at his grave—as despite how much of the book she made up wholesale, Sparks left in plenty of identifying details. Barrett's parents later claimed that Sparks had tarnished their child's memory and ruined their lives. Barrett's brother Scott later wrote a rebuttal to Jay's Journal titled A Place in the Sun.
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Go Ask Alice / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Go Ask Alice / int_b4c406a6	comment	Death by Despair: After Carla's grandfather dies, his wife stops eating and dies a few weeks later as well.
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Go Ask Alice / int_b532642f	type	Drugs Causing Slow-Motion
Go Ask Alice / int_b532642f	comment	Drugs Causing Slow-Motion: When the protagonist realizes that her cup has been spiked for a "game," she sees everything in slow-motion and hears voices in low frequency.
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Go Ask Alice / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
Go Ask Alice / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: She mentions feeling attraction to girls at several points and even wonders if her feelings are just a phase or something more. She catches her boyfriend Richie having sex with Chris's boyfriend Ted. It's never clarified what Richie's sexuality was, but she seems to think he was gay or perhaps out of his mind because of the drugs.
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Go Ask Alice / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Go Ask Alice / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Just when you think our heroine's on the right track to a bright, successful future, literally the last page tells you that she died of a drug overdose and her body was found by her parents after coming home from a night out.
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Go Ask Alice / int_c673210e	type	Informed Judaism
Go Ask Alice / int_c673210e	comment	Informed Judaism: Beth is Jewish, and the diarist learns a lot about the religion through her interactions with Beth.
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Go Ask Alice / int_c7839568	type	Nice Jewish Boy
Go Ask Alice / int_c7839568	comment	Nice Jewish Boy: Beth is a Nice Jewish Girl whose parents keep on trying to get her to date Nice Jewish Boys. She then meets one for real while away at a "Jewish summer camp", and the narrator notes in her diary that she and Beth have grown apart as Beth now spends all her time with the boyfriend. (In the movie version, "Alice" and Beth reconcile by the end of the film and "Alice" befriends Beth's boyfriend.)
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Go Ask Alice / int_cae8e25d	type	Misery Lit
Go Ask Alice / int_cae8e25d	comment	Misery Lit: The book tried to pass itself off as this, but is now widely agreed to be a work of fiction.
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Go Ask Alice / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
Go Ask Alice / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Carla and also her friend Babbie, whom she meets while in the asylum.
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Go Ask Alice / int_d2771f82	type	World of No Grandparents
Go Ask Alice / int_d2771f82	comment	World of No Grandparents: The narrator loses both of her beloved grandparents during the course of the novel - Gramps suffers a fatal heart attack, and Gran dies of a broken heart afterward.
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Go Ask Alice / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
Go Ask Alice / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: Basically Drugs Are Bad: The Book the same way Requiem for a Dream is Drugs Are Bad: The Movie.
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Go Ask Alice / int_e17843dd	type	Contemplating Your Hands
Go Ask Alice / int_e17843dd	comment	Contemplating Your Hands: This stoner cliché makes an appearance: in one scene, hands become fascinating under the influence.
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Go Ask Alice / int_e33a31d0	type	Gay Romantic Phase
Go Ask Alice / int_e33a31d0	comment	She mentions feeling attraction to girls at several points and even wonders if her feelings are just a phase or something more.
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Go Ask Alice / int_e7ecdeb0	type	Weight Woe
Go Ask Alice / int_e7ecdeb0	comment	Weight Woe: Prior to starting drugs, Carla is upset over her weight and starts starvation-dieting to lose weight (in fact, it's one of the catalysts for her friendship with Beth, who is also weight-conscious). When her mother insists that she eat, Carla then considers resorting to bulimia. Later she finds that drugs help curb her appetite.
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Go Ask Alice / int_e9db9908	type	Younger Than They Look
Go Ask Alice / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: A girl who looks eighteen or nineteen is revealed to be only fourteen. In the film, this role is given to Doris (played by Mackenzie Phillips).
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Go Ask Alice / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
Go Ask Alice / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License – Geography: The narrator speaks glowingly of her experiences in Coos Bay, Oregon, and in the same breath describes how she visited the Psychedelic Shop and the Digger Free Store. Both these establishments were in San Francisco, neither was a franchise, and both had closed down by the time the narrator got there.
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Go Ask Alice / int_ed3dc201	type	Addiction Displacement
Go Ask Alice / int_ed3dc201	comment	Addiction Displacement: Carla turns first to junk food and then to drugs as a coping mechanism, as she finds Bennies suppress her appetite and help her stay thin.
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Go Ask Alice / int_edfb8d92	type	The Generation Gap
Go Ask Alice / int_edfb8d92	comment	The Generation Gap: As a theme. It helps divide the narrator from her parents.
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Go Ask Alice / int_f081b6bc	comment	Emo Teen: The narrator, of course, along with Babbie and Chris.
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Go Ask Alice / int_f0f03464	comment	By contrast, the film version either plainly takes place in The '70s or is an example of Anachronism Stew in regards to pop music, as hinted by the use of popular songs such as "Do You Know What I Mean" by Lee Michaels and "Outa-Space" by Billy Preston (both hits in the early half of the '70s).
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Go Ask Alice / int_f88600be	type	Higher Understanding Through Drugs
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Go Ask Alice / int_fcdf597b	type	Titled After the Song
Go Ask Alice / int_fcdf597b	comment	Titled After the Song: Named for a line in Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit".
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