Anonymous. "Go Ask Alice." New York: Avon Books,1982

1. Point of view-the perspective from which the author tells the story.
"Alice writes in her undated diary from a hospital. She is unsure how she has ended up here and can only think of the worms she thinks are eating her alive. She has apparently been biting her fingers down to the bone." Undated (July)
The book " Go Ask Alice" was written in in first person. This gives the reader an idea of what Alice is thinking and her feelings on what she is battling in her life.
2. symbolism- using one idea to represent a larger idea.
"As a purported piece of non-fiction, Go Ask Alice does not have any explicit symbols, but Alice's nightmares and hallucinations of maggots and worms eating away at corpses or her own body can be viewed as a dual symbol."
At first, Alice's fears of the maggots center on the loneliness of the individual mind. No one knows what happens to a body underground, hidden from sight.......

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