I noticed that the author, who’s anonymous, has a very strong voice throughout the piece. In fact, I even noticed that as Alice moves on through life, the voice changes with her, adapting to her situation. For example, when she’s living with her parents in the beginning of the book, even though things aren’t the best at times, she writes in a happy go lucky way. After heading to the party where she takes drugs for the first time, I noticed that her preppy attitude leaves her, and instead enters a girl with a pessimistic outlook. She complains about the family she once was so happy to have. She runs away, more than once, to start life on her own. Yet every time she returns, so does her naïve personality. I noticed that every time she’s away and using drugs, she changes not only her character, by doing things she’d never do sober, but by changing her voice in word choice, attitude, and diction. Since the book is in diary format, it was easy to hear her talking; she was pouring her heart out onto the pages. In fact, Alice kept the notebook locked away in a container for fear that someone would read her secrets. That just goes to show that when she wrote about her life, she didn’t hold back, especially how she was feeling or thinking. That’s why I think her voice/ tone is so strong in this book. It’s really coming from her heart. Not to mention, this book is based off a real diary. When you think about the fact that these words didn’t just come from an author’s head, but from real life experiences, it makes the story more real. Actual thoughts and feelings come across the pages, altogether developing the voice in the book.
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