I guess it's kind of difficult to comment on Alice's writing style considering she wasn't actually writing in her diary with the intention of anyone reading it. However, I think that this makes the book extremely easy to read and enjoyable. Alice definitely had no idea that her diary would we published anonymously and read by people all over the world. She was completely and totally honest and just wrote down everything she was thinking and feeling. Sometimes this gets to be a little hard to follow because you can't understand the way she's thinking or how her mind works, but for the most part, it's really easy to comprehend what's going on in her life and why she does what she does. For example, in class when we read "The Motorcycle Diaries" by Ernesto Che Guevara, I felt as though Che went back and edited everything in his diary. You could tell that he was trying hard to impress his readers. He knew that one day he was going to have an audience so he went over his original work, edited it, and changed things. I hated "The Motorcycle Diaries," and part of the reason was because it was so over-done. Che went back and re-wrote his original thoughts and added so many trivial details and unimportant events. He also tried to make himself look like some kind of hero, and in the end, he really wasn't. It bothered me that he tried to call that book a diary when he changed so much of what he originally observed and wrote. In "Go Ask Alice," you can tell everything's coming straight from her heart. She writes like any teenage girl with a diary would write. I like that because I could really follow along and she didn't hold anything back which makes the book suspenseful, interesting, and very much enjoyable. I know that Alice wasn't really going for any particular style or form of writing, but in the end, the way she wrote the book obviously worked out because people all over the world have bought it and read it. It's unedited, true, honest stories. It makes the book very interesting to read.
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