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The Diary of "Alice"
The title of this book (Go Ask Alice) is in reference to the Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit." -
Alice buys her first diary.
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Alice turns 15.
(Her birthday is the day after her dad's.) -
Moving day.
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Alice goes to stay with her grandparents.
Alice stayed at her grandparent's house the whole summer because her new best friend Beth went to Jewish summer camp and this is when she takes drugs for the very first time. -
Alice goes to a party and unwittingly drops LSD.
While at a party, Alice drank a can of coke when she was playing "Button,Button Who's Got the Button?" 10 out of the 14 cans of coke contained LSD and she happened to be one of the unfortunate kids at the party to get one. -
Alice meets Bill. He introduces her to new drugs.
A few days after mistakenly taking drugs for the first time, Alice met Bill on the way to the library. He showed her introduced her to new drugs like torpedos and Speed. At this point in the book, she believes she is just "trying" drugs and that she really isn't hooked, but she is starting to become a drug-addict. -
Alice loses her virginity while on acid.
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Alice goes back home.
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Alice gets tranquilizers from her doctor.
Alice is under so much stress about what happened in the past few weeks that she needs an escape from all her thoughts. "Actually I don't need the sleep as much as I need the escape. It's a wonderful way to escape. I think I can't stand it and then I just take a pill and wait for sweet nothingness to take over. At this stage in my life nothingness is way better than somethingness." -
Alice meets Chris.
Alice meets Chris at the little boutique where she works. -
Alice gets a job with Chris.
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Alice tries marijuana for the first time
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Alice and Chris sell drugs.
Chris sets Alice up with her boyfriend Richie's roommate Ted. Richie and Ted are in college and do drugs so the two girls sell drugs to help pay for their tuition. -
They vow never to do drugs again.
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Alice and Chris run away from home and move to San Francisco.
They ran away to SF after they turned in two college drug-users to the police. When they first arrived, they found a "spiderhole" apartment that was small and filthy and spent a few days searching for jobs. -
Alice and Chris get back on drugs.
The two girls attend a party hosted by Chris's employer, Shelia. While they're there, the smell of pot catches their attention and when one of the men passes a joint to Alice, she just couldn't resist. -
They move to Berkeley and open a jewelry shop.
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Alice and Chris return with their families.
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Merry Christmas!
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Alice is clean of drugs again.
Once school started again, people she used to supply with drugs were shocked that she was now clean. And Alice and Chris tried everything to keep their mind off drugs including taking trips on weekends. -
Alice and Chris get back "on."
Chris invites Alice over while her parents are gone. And once Alice gets there, she knows the smell. They both cry and smoke marijuana together. -
Alice and Chris get busted and get put on probation.
After the police raid Chris's house Alice and Chris are put on probation and are restricted from seeing eachother. -
Alice hitchhikes to Denver.
She continues to do drugs without her family's knowledge and while she's high, she hitchhikes to Denver. (The rest of her diary entries while she is in Denver are written on napkins and paper bags without dates.) -
Alice returns home.
After she returns from Denver, she starts a new diary and "a new life." She has even given up drugs for good and plans to try to make kids understand that getting into drugs isn't worth it. -
Someone at school plants a joint in Alice's purse.
After someone puts a joint in her purse, Alice cuts class and takes a cab over to her dad's office out of being afraid. -
Alice meets a freshman at the university library named Joel.
Joel is a very good person and even makes Alice a better person. He studies at the university where her dad works and works as a janitor to pay for school. -
Pressure to use drugs intensifies.
As the kids at school continue to harass Alice and her family, she goes to Joel for advice and consoling. -
Alice woke up in the hospital.
When she wakes up, she notices her fingers are chewed to the bone and her face and body all clawed up. Her father says the chocolate-covered peanuts she was eating while baby-sitting were dosed with LSD. -
Alice finds out she is being sent to an insane asylum.
When she finds out, her dad tells her that when her case was brought upon a juvenile court, Jan (one of the drug users at school) and another girl testified that Alice had still been on drugs and selling them. -
Alice is released.
Alice gets to go home after her father gets Jan to sign an affidavit saying that she wasn't pushing at school. -
Thanks, Diary.
That morning, Alice got up and worried about going back to school that day. "But I know it's all going to be all right because I have Joel and my new super straight friends and they'll help me." Then she decided not to keep another diary, although it's saved her sanity "a hundred, thousand, million times. -
Alice dies of an overdose.
The epilogue says that the subject of this book died three weeks after her decision not to keep another diary. According to the book, her parents came home from a movie and found her dead from an overdose. They called the police and the hospital but there was nothing anyone could do. Whether it was accidental or premeditated... no one knows. Along with that, it says she was only one of thousands of drug deaths that year.
