Alice Chapter Summaries

For her, everyday acts seem much more enjoyable when on drugs. She goes out of their way to experience something new and exciting. She is a creative writer and uses drugs as a way to get back to her child-like imaginative state. Suddenly, with the drugs back in her life, she seems to have much more insight and a wilder imagination. "And the afternoon was absinthe yellow and almond, burnt orange and chrysanthemum. And in the abstract sky, a litany of kites"(93). She longs to feel this way all of the time, but she knows the consequences. She sees doing drugs like going to a carnival. It is an escape from the boring life she is leading now. Even though she has a daughter, she still feels like there is something she is missing out on. The idea of motherhood takes backseat to her lust for drugs.

Alice has gone though a lot, but things start to go well for her. She’s with Joel, her family loves her, and she’s friends with kids that don’t smoke or drink. She stops writing in a diary, but dies a few weeks later because of an overdose. Either she was drugged or she started doing drugs again.

Alice’s relationship would not go very far, constructing her ending for Henry, “Henry Reyna married Della in 1948 and they have five kids, three of them now going to the University, speaking calo and calling themselves Chicanos.” This quote essentially dispersed Alice’s hope for something more with Henry. Making Alice side with Henry’s parents in his potential marriage with Della due to his responsibilities, “If it was just me and you, Henry it might be different. But you have to think of your family.” This quote shows Alice’s understanding of what Henry must do. In the end Alice’s feelings are put aside due to what cannot be done and what must be

This screenplay follows the protagonist Alice Howland, who is a professor of linguistics at Columbia University. Alice Howland is later diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease, which turns her world completely upside down; especially given her career and ambitious nature. She becomes unable to perform normal everyday activities, and struggles with the loss of her independence. Alice’s husband, John, who is a physician, attempts to act as a guide for her through this time, but it ultimately puts a strain on their relationship. John’s job offer to move to Boston does not help matters either, and it quickly becomes the last straw for the two of them. He soon moves to New York to take the job after Alice’s memory starts to decay at a faster rate. John and Alice have 3 children, Lydia, Anna, and Tom as well as a son-in-law, Charlie. They are introduced at the beginning of the screenplay, as they all gather to celebrate Alice’s 50th birthday at a restaurant. This is also the time in which the audience notices her decline in normal conversation as she is unable to follow smoothly. Alice could be considered the catalytic hero of this screenplay, and the disease being the antagonist. Alice wants to hold on to as much of her memory that she can, and slow the regression by writing down everything. By Act 3, Alice loses her ability to do activities that she had been doing for many years; such as going out for her morning run without getting lost, remembering words, phrases, and

As time pass, Chris and Alice decides to flee San Francisco and vows to turn Richie in and stays sober with Chris. She gets to San Francisco where she and Chris both find jobs to support themselves. She also matures within this time frame, learning about her sexuality. However, she has not have sex sober yet. Beneath Alice’s psychedelic adventures is her continuing desire to find someone with home she can have the same open, loving relationship she once had with her family. Her shifting emotions concerning her family were the major cause for her departure, yet she longs for them in San Francisco.

Go Ask Alice tells the story of a teenage girl that develops a drug habit. Controlled by her mental struggle, Alice runs away on a journey of escapism, and self-destruction.

But in total she was more of a victim than a hero or a feminist everything that happens to alice ends up in something drug related when that is not in her best interest . She gets a new group of friends she does drugs gets a job selling drugs every man she is with are on drugs moves to a city it is the drug capital alice and

In the book, “Go Ask Alice,” by Beatrice Sparks is about a young girl named Alice keeps a diary of her troubles throughout life in the 1970’s. She writes everything from her struggles of being accepted to her sexuality. In the beginning of the story, her family moves due to her father becoming a Dean at a new college. At first, Alice was very eager and positive. She even stated that she feels like a different person and plans to go on a diet. As the story continues, she soon feels like an outcast at her new school, but then she met Beth and Jill. Beth is your typical girl next door. She and Alice begin to build a great friendship, which leads them to talk about sex, boys, and religion. When Beth was sent off to Camp, Alice was very heartbroken and lost. This was only the

Alice was a young and confused girl. She got mixed up into the wrong crowd and went through a lot. Besides being with the wrong crowd Alice relates to wave two feminism greatly. She was thought of to be an object because she was women. She was sexuality assulted a few times. She would of had to go to an unsafe abortion clinic if she had the right connections to even get her associated with an abortion doctor. Birth control was a controversial item during the time, and it was hard to take because once a day you have to take it but you have to take it every day at the same time.

Her grandmothers death marks another shift for her, as Alice’s relationship with her grandmother was much more important than her relationship with her mother. Alice’s bridge to her old culture is severed “Now there would be no one left to remind me of my roofs”. Despite her tears, she excels in her year 12 exams; securing a spot to study at university “I got out. I had got out. I was no longer stuck”.

The emotional focus of Alice Walker's story is rage, red-hot and isolating.  As I read this piece, I became livid, not only at the thought of her devastating

The opening scene has Alice drinking and the film continues from there to focus on the alcohol. The scenarios of the mother’s slide to the bottom include incidents like that of: egging the neighbor’s car who’s alarm keeps going off, falling out of the boat on their trip to Mexico, and the night that she locks herself out of the house because she was throwing her “evidence” bottle away. These episodes reflect not only that the problem is getting worse, but that he is enabling/ accepting it.

As the film unfolded, Alice became open with her family regarding her recent diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, fears and struggles. John who was physician, Anna who was a lawyer, Tom who was a medical student and Lydia an aspiring

Anna is Alice’s oldest daughter; she’s a successful lawyer and is married to Charles, also a lawyer. Anna is strong and fiercely independent just like her mother. Anna deals with her mother’s disease by suggesting that if her mom “thinks for a second” then maybe she’ll be able to remember things (p. 173). Anna, however still makes time to care for her mom when her dad is away.

In Alice’s Adventures, Alice falls down a rabbit- hole for what seems like forever, while bits and pieces of her identity remain trapped at the entrance. After this fall,