TOW #1

Go ask alice is a non-fiction book about a teenage girl that is fifteen years old that is just entering a new high-school for her freshman year. She moves a lot so it is nothing new or exciting for her. She beings to meet a couple people from her school that invite her to her first ever party but little did she know that this party influenced her life in a very rough way. This book is based on someones diary but the one who published this book is anonymous therefore, the credibility of the author as a primary source cannot be given. The audience of this piece is directed towards adolescents from the ages fifteen through eighteen based on the tone and the actual context of drugs which is sadly, a culture for adolescents now a days. The occasion of this text is in a suburban traditional high-school with her own group of friends that are a little older than she is and they are also a bad influence on her because of their excessive drug and alcohol use. The author uses anecdotes to make the reader feel the sentiment of the anonymous writer as if he/she was experiencing the same thing. The authors purpose in writing this text is not to vent feelings which diaries are mainly about, but it is a way to track how she is feeling in a subconscious way. Yes, the author accomplished their purpose because you do notice the changes she has been going through throughout the dates she writes. She goes from a calm, mellow teenage girl, to a depressed, suicidal girl who can't go through a day without taking drugs or having alcohol all because of hanging out with the wrong crowd she thought was innocent at the beginning and a party she thought wouldn't even have drugs or alcohol.