Since I have now completed reading my novel my point of view of this book has evolved drastically. Not only has my view changed but my social issue in the book has also evolved. My novel ended off with the protagonist, Alice finally getting over with the loss of her loved ones and her many negative feelings. While coping with her loss she turns to drugs and a whole new educational experience begins. I found a website that goes through the stages of dealing with grief and it also gives a brief background information.
http://www.helpguide.org/articles/grief-loss/coping-with-grief-and-loss.htm
On this website, it tells the reader that grief is the natural response to loss. Everyone has a different way of dealing with grief and the main five stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. The main character, Alice does go through all these different phases. She was in denial as she thought that she should have been there when her grandparents died. She kept thinking that i could've done something but in reality she couldn't as her grandpa died of a heart attack and later on her grandmother died of a natural death. She deals with anger and depression by excluding her family out of her life and turning to drugs. However, Alice does not do bargaining but she does anything to get drugs even if it drug dealers using her body. The last phase is accepting the death of a loved one or something that is meaningful which she does but she keeps relapsing but soon the reader finds out at the end of book that she has died two weeks after she stopped writing the diary.
