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We discussed how Alice repeats her mistakes. While the mood of the story lightens as she tries to clean up, she always ends up meeting the wrong people. She keeps relapsing into drugs even though she learns how it destroys her life. Even after her family is suffering and dying she desperately seeks drugs to the point of even prostitution. The book overall has a bittersweet-dark tone to it.

What is the mood of the story so far?

It changes between desperate to joyous to stressfully lonesome to sorrow.

Why does Alice run away again? Her parents punished her and she got back into drugs so she ran away without any clothes or money and had to stay in a church. How have drugs affect her life?

It had ruined her reputation and is affecting her sexual activities causing her many pregnancy scares.

What do you think is the reason why people want to get Alice back into drugs?

Because they used to use her to get them and now that she’s clean no one believes her and still want to get drugs from her.

How has the tone in the writing change since the beginning of the book?

It became less innocent and darker and a lot more depressing.

Do you think Alice will ever stop using drugs completely?

Unlikely, she keeps repeating her irrational mistake and doesn’t seem to learn. Unless something seriously dramatic and traumatizing happens she will definitely never stop relapsing into drug use.