Go Ask Alice--Blog 2

A lot has happened in the novel since the last blog. First off, Chris and the narrator's relationship has really grown. It has grown to the point that they are both so fed up with their family life that they plan to sneak away to move to San Francisco. One interesting thing I found about this was that the narrator said that she really does love her family and that is part of the reason that she is leaving: she doesn't want them to know what she has done and who she has become. When they arrive in San Francisco, they get a nasty, cheap apartment. They have trouble finding work, but after many attempts they both manage to get a job. First, the narrator works as a cheap lingerie store but then gets a job at a jewelery store in a ritzy hotel. Chris gets a job with a highly sophisticated, cosmopolitan woman named Sheila. Life is going great for the two of them in their new life, but then things take a change for the worse. At one of Sheila's parties, Chris and the narrator experience drugs yet another time. They continue this life style and attend more of Sheila's parties, which only get crazier. Finally, one of the parties reaches the extreme. There are just four of them there: Chris, the narrator, Sheila, and her new boyfriend. They bring out heroine and it is the first time for both the narrator and Chris. Things get out of control, and in the end it turns out that Chris and the narrator were raped by Sheila and the boyfriend. Because of the recent events, Chris and the narrator move out of San Francisco. They start their own shop in their new town by renovating an apartment. Their shop is successful immediately. But once again, drugs comes back. But this time, it's in the form of all of the buyers and kids talking about them. So, Chris and the narrator finally decide it's time to go back home. They are greeted at home with the best welcome home parties. They are both glad to be home and are finally enjoying their lives. The narrator starts school again where social relationships hurt the narrator. All of the previous people she used to sell to ask her if she still sells and so she is forced every time to deny it. Drugs seem to keep following her, but I guess that's what they always do. Once you start them, you start a new life style for yourself that is very, very hard to escape from, even the narrator agrees. The rest of the reading deals with the narrator going back into doing drugs and her and Chris getting caught. Her parents are extremely upset. Who wouldn't be when when she came home she was so happy and active in the family. Both girls' families were so helpful in their secret process of distancing themselves from drugs, and then they both slam it into their faces by getting caught, which proves their use. It is hard for me to continue reading knowing that drugs ultimately end her life, but she makes so many promises to herself and to others to stop all together. The Christmas season was especially hard to read. She makes a resolution to herself that her new life is going to begin now, and within months, she is back to using drugs. She ignores every vow she makes to herself and it seems like she has lost complete faith in herself and her actions, which is very sad to me. I will continue reading in hopes of a lighter note, but knowing that there are no more light notes for the narrator, only ones that appear to be light but in the end are dark as night.