Wow! (IR 5 - #4, July 20 - Sept 10)

This section seriously surprised me so much! I figured that Alice would get turned on to drugs and maybe just smoke some marijuana and drink, but she's seriously taking this to a whole new level. It's actually getting kind of scary. She's completely becoming dependent on the drugs. She starts trying speed, and she says that she feels as though she's a completely new, better, and different person. When I heard that I knew that she would obviously continue to take the drugs because she feels better about herself when she's on them. I'm very suprised about all of the drugs that she's trying and doing. However, I realized during the time the book takes place, the drugs were much more readily available and easy to get. Still, the drugs are extremely intense and definitely mind-altering. Alice's LSD trip from the last section I read was insane. She said that she was hearing music and that she was surrounded by a ton of colors and she could hear what was going on next door. This was very suprising and crazy to me. I can't imagine ever having that experience; it seems so surreal. Alice keeps talking about how she feels bad about doing drugs and she knows that they're really bad for her and she shouldn't do them, but she keeps going to parties where they're readily available. She goes to her friend Bill's one night and drops acid again. She then spends the entire party staring at her hand. She then loses her virginity to Bill while on acid. Her life pretty much keeps getting crazier and crazier. You can tell that she's not really going to be able to pull herself out of the hole that she's got herself into with all these drugs. I just really can't believe everything she's doing to herself and all the drugs that she's become dependent on...she can't even sleep without sleeping pills! And she can't be alert during the day without uppers so she has to take the uppers to stay awake and then she's needs to take the sleeping pills to go to bed because she's so high strung. It's getting so bad. I'm suprised that everything happened so incredibly fast. Now, she doesn't even have Beth because they both changed so much over the summer. Things really aren't looking to good for Alice.

DRUG ADDICTION