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The novel at first seems to end on a high, so to speak, with Carla reunited with her family, off drugs, with a boyfriend named Joel and showing greater maturity. {{spoiler|A epilogue slams that with a [[Downer Ending]].}}
The portrayal of sixties hippie culture is limited. Tellingly, political protest and music are scarcely mentioned. It works best as a critique of the hedonistic excesses of the movement. As a "warning work" it has similarities to ''[[Requiem for
==== If you are looking for the trope that used to have this name, please see [[Alice Allusion]]. ====
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=== ''[[Go Ask Alice]]'' provides examples of these tropes: ===
* [[Alice Allusion]]: In relay: the book is named from "White Rabbit", a song by the contemporary psychedelic band [[Jefferson Airplane]] who in turn saw drug imagery in ''[[
* [[Anonymous Author]]: Or published as such, at any rate.
* [[Based on a Great Big Lie]]: Ostensibly the real diary of a teenage girl, it was, in fact, entirely fabricated by Sparks. She has also released a series of other "true diaries" in the same vein as ''[[Go Ask Alice]]'', but dealing with different subjects, such as AIDS (''It Happened to Nancy''), teen pregnancy (''Annie's Baby'') and depression-linked Satanism, we kid you not (''Jay's Journal'').
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* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: {{spoiler|Sheila the fashion designer. She and her boyfriend Rod are the ones who rape both Carla and Chris in San Francisco.}}
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: At one point in the narrative the girl talks about living in Coos Bay, Oregon. She then enthuses about the Psychedelic Shop and the Diggers Free Store. Both establishments were in San Francisco and had long been closed by the time of the narrative.
* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: Basically ''[[Drugs Are Bad|Drugs Are Bad: The Book]]'' the same way ''[[Requiem for
* [[Downer Ending]]: At first you think it is going to be a happy ending with the main character changing her life for the better. But then in the epilogue, you find out that {{spoiler|she died three weeks later of an overdose. It's not clear if it was an accidental one or if she was killed by other drug addicts.}}
* [[Emo Teen]]: Carla, Babbie, Chris.
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