Questions and Comments:
Why is she so happy that she was introduced to LSD? How can the people keep tract of the papers if there is no date? I wonder why Alice doesn't just tell somebody about how the kids at school are bothering her. Why are the kids at school so mean to her? Who spiked the peanuts with LSD? Why did the neighbors lock her up in a closet? That is so mean. I feel so sorry for her. Why did she suicide in the end if she was talking about how great her life was?
I think the book was a very good book although there were many parts that confused me. The book provided a very vivid description and lots of detail which gives me an insight on how drug users see things when they are under the influence.
I found out that the book actually created a lot of controversy. It was published in around 1971. It's supposed to be an actual diary of a girl who died of a drug overdose in the 1960s. Though some people think the editor Beatrice Sparks created the book. Also the name Alice isn't the girl's name! It is the name of one of the people that Alice sees also a drug user. The book was named after the song "White Rabbit" which Grace Slick wrote based on drug references in the novel Alice in Wonderland.
3 comments:
woah this book is deep. I would have thought this book was more happy like Alice in Wondereland. Super sad that she sucide herself. Sometimes I wonder why people sucide themselves. God gave you life so you shouldn't be the one to get rid of it. God will come back to take it himself when he thinks the time is right. Sucide is soo sad. Like you have to think there is no way out. What i don't understand is that you said that she killed herself when her life was going good?
this is a very insightful response to the book. It makes me wonder why other people who read this book (there are A LOT!)didnt realize the level of things wrong with this book.
i also like the song that the title is based on. even though the song is really about Alice in Wonderland it really makes a lot of sense to be the title because it talks about 'pills' and all other sorts of crazy hectic things
( as a note to miss faughey, I couldn't get they italicized or underlining tags to work)
I think that this book was a very sad and mysterious book....I agree with Carol and I think that suicide is a very tragic thing. People should be more happy =)
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