Element

The mot important element that moved me the most were the events. The events in this book weren't just casual events that happened.  It was a moving event each time that kept you wanting too know what she did next and the knowledge of  how she turned out. Each event brought a strong message with that created emotions of fear, sadness and hope.  Events like her running away and upon her return her family rushed too her with open arms and had no resentment for her decisions. That moved me, in fact I hate to admit it, but it broke me down.

Type of person

Based on my reading of this book, my opinion of the type of person "Alice" was a nice, caring, intelligent, young women  who fell into the wrong crowd because she had a good time at a party when someone slipped her some acid without her knowing. I can tell the she cares about people because when she runs away for the first time, the girl she left with is struggling to get by, and she uses the money that she was saving to help her out. She volunteered her time to help her grandmother after she moved into her family home.  Her grandmother was ill and she wanted to help her along with it providing a distraction from her thoughts of continuing to use drugs.

Author's Purpose

There is one main purpose to Go Ask Alice, and that is to inform. The Author is a teenager who was trapped in the drug world.  The story  is now used to inform teenagers/people about the dangers of drugs  and how they can take over your body and mind. It was not the original purpose of the book, because obviously it was her diary and she did not plan on a publication that would become  an example of true life examples of what can happen with the use of drugs.  In the Epilogue it states: Was it an accidental overdose? A premeditated overdose? No one knows and in some ways that question isn't important.  What be of concern is that she died, and that she was only one of thousands of drug deaths that year.

"Life As We Knew It"

Evaluation

The last week or so, as I class we were reading Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer. The Plot of the book was basically a meteor strikes the moon and causes it too orbit closer to the earth. This causes several disasters such as tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. In the story you follow Miranda and her family as the struggle to survive the series of disasters. 

Life As We Knew It, I would not recommend this book to anyone, ever! I found this book to extremely boring, and I dreaded reading it. I based my judgement on 1. The concept, although it was realistic, I didn't like it. The concept seemed dragged out and boring to me. I am not a Science person, which could lead to why I thought the plot was boring, but all I know is that I hated it.Susan Pfeffer really did pick a concept that could happen, but she couldn't have thought of a more boring one. 2. The Beginning, the beginning to me is the most important part of the book. I give the first 5 to 6 chapters to catch my attention, or I pass an opinion that it sucks and the rest of the book just seems dull and boring. Other bloggers do tend to agree, such as Jeremy Vettrus, he said " I feel like the beginning of the book started off very slow and boring." although he disagrees and he enjoyed the book he feels the beginning wasn't good. and my third and last criteria on judging this book is development of characters, I feel like she developed the character of Miranda because it was her journal, but she didn't give much information on the others, and I would have liked to learn about all the characters. Learning about all the characters allows me too make judgement and bonds with them and grow to like their character. "Mom is more worried about Mrs. Nesbitt than she is about us." (page 105)This is an example of her telling us her opinions of how they thought and now how they personally actually made decisions. I guess its just my feeling of being able to choose which character to like or dislike. 

Others who say they like it may say that the plot was easy to read, because it could happen. They are wrong because, it wasn't easy to read. Every time I opened the book I thought to myself here we go again. If this book wasn't assigned and it was my copy of the book, it would have been put up in flames!! This book made me go to sleep on 2 occasions, I was reading it in bed, and I just passed out mid read, and I didn't even care because it got me away from the book, and thats all I wanted to do. So there's my opinion on this book, I wouldn't read this by choice if it was forced upon me.

Greatest Book of All Time

Lady and Gentlemen I have made my decision on what book I will be reading... The book I chose is "Go Ask Alice". The reason I choose this book was because it struck me as an interesting read, and it applies to what teenagers all over go through, while trying to concur the crazy thing called High School.

The Best Thing I learned last semester was.......

The Best Thing I learned from last sememster was my work ethic was lazy and uncaring. Now I realize that if I put my full complete effort in that I can succed at AP Language, and amoung other things, such as the rest of my subjects, so I am very thankful of Mr. Jackson for helping me with my effort. This is a skill that I needed as a student.