The narrator seem to be ignorant to a lot of things at the time of the climax of the story: which was the point at which she got drunk, her friends came over to help, and she got busted for drinking on her job. I think that at this time she realizes what her mother meant when she said " ignorance, or innocence if you like you, is not always such a fine thing as people think and I am not sure it may not be dangerous for a

This story should have a great deal of impact on all teenager who think that the only cure for problems they encounter are, alcohol, drugs and smoking. I personally think that by them reading about this incident it will open their eye's and teaches them that the only way to deal with their problems is to first; acknowledge that there is a problem and then openly confronting it.

The narrator realizes that her emotional feelings are in conflict with each other. Something she didn't know how to solve on her own. At that point the alcohol was her only hope. This she though was her only escape from her troubles or in other words it was her "ounce of cure." It was something to calm her nerves and keep her from not thinking about the situation in which she's i

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Approximate Word count = 514
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)