Go Ask Alice You Before Me Analysis

Why is it that death is the only certain thing that anyone and everyone should anticipate from life? Nothing in life is set; things can change in a matter of seconds. Death is the end; the end for the pain and for suffering that is going on in one’s life. A single event can change a person’s life forever, it gives them a different perspective, and it alters a path than they would have expected to be on. Both Go Ask Alice by Anonymous and You Before Me by Jojo Moyes are two perfect pieces of literature that illustrate how one event can change a being’s chores in life and kill them. Once any hopes and dreams prove to be unattainable, life becomes an unfortunate slippery slope of self-loaf and pain; it is up to this person to get themselves out of this new
In Go Ask Alice she is constantly on the edge of her death. Alice’s addiction caused her to tip-toe around death for almost a year until it finally consumed her. Will’s death is a never ending thought in his mind; only living for the people around him. He was never truly contented with how he had to live and so he killed himself to end the misery. Both were self-caused but one was possibly an accidental drug overdose and the other was to escape an impossible reality. Both main characters go through changes that reason them to feel differently about themselves. “Someone evil and foul and degenerate wrote in my book, took over my life. Yes, they did, they did!” (Anonymous). Alice’s change makes her life unrecognizable to herself and she cannot even realize that it is her writing in her book. She starts to believe that she is evil and that she has become a complete different person than before. Will has evolved into a different emotional state that he was at. He can tell that his presence brings sadness and grief to others “… this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.” (Jojo Moyes). Death is their escape to