Monday, March 23, 2009

Get Your Act Together (IR 6 - #13, Sept 12 - Nov 22)


Alice is really making some bad choices, and if I had known Alice I would definitely have definitely gave her some sound advice. In this section, Alice completely starts to get seriously out of control. She knows what she's doing is wrong and she should really try and stop. I would also give advice to her parents because clearly, they're not giving her the help that she needs. How could they not realize that she is so enthralled and caught up in all of the drugs? It really has to be obvious if she's high on something all of the time. It's completely ridiculous that they haven't done anything about it. They've talked to her, but obviously that isn't enough. I would tell them to take better care of their daughter and give her the help that she needs. Alice makes a new friend Chris and the two of them are pretty popular in school. She continues to drop acid and do drugs. At this point, I would tell her to get a new group of friends because all of her friends are a bad influence on her and they're not into good things. She meets someone named Rickie and begins to have sex with him when she's high and on drugs and drunk. She's not using protection and she's always high so obviously this isn't a very healthy sexual relationship. Things begin to spiral more and more out of control when she starts selling drugs with Chris. She ends up selling LSD to a kid at an ELEMENTARY SCHOOL! That is absolutely crazy and sad to me. I can't believe that she would actually do that. She says that she feels sick to her stomach afterwards and she really should. That's horrible. She decides to leave and move out to Salt Lake City with Chris. She actually makes one good decision before doing this - she tells the cops about Richie and how he sells drugs. This is a good decision for her because she got herself away from something she knew was bad. In Salt Lake City, she lives in a crummy apartment with an okay job. At this point, I would obviously tell Alice to get back home. I think the advice to give Alice is pretty obvious. She should really try rehab and she should try to reach out to her family for her support. Her family should really try and search for Alice before it's too late.

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