Characters In Thirteen Reasons Why

Thirteen Reasons Why is a television show about a teenage girl, named Hannah, who commits suicide because of how negatively her peers treated her. By Critiquing "Thirteen Reasons Why," the television show, with my three concepts: Front and Back stage, Peer Groups and Gender roles, this paper will dispute the relation between my concepts and the sociological interactions between the characters in Thirteen Reasons Why. In Thirteen Reasons Why, Gender roles are clearly present and even sometimes accepted by the community. Gender roles are described as the way society expects individuals of a specific gender are supposed to act (Brym, Roberts, Strohschein, Lie, 2016, 275). Furthermore, this relates to Thirteen Reasons Why because throughout the

Peer groups include individuals of similar age and of related social position (Willmott, 2018). This is noticeable in Thirteen Reasons Why with Bryce. In addition, when Bryce is with his peer group, he seems like a friendly, outgoing person. Yet, when he is alone with girls, he sexually assaults them. He sexually assaulted Jessica when she was passed out drunk and had unconsented sex with Hannah when he was alone with her in the pool at a party. Hannah was already in so much psychological pain and Bryce was the second last horrible event in Hannah's life before she committed suicide. Hannah even mentioned that Bryce's actions were a significant reason to why she ended her life. In this case, Bryce being with his peer group is an advantage, as when he is with his peer group, he doesn't take advantage of women. Going back to when Hannah and Marcus go on their first date, they went on a date together and Marcus's friends were watching the date. Before the date, Marcus acted very respectfully and sincere because they only talked alone. When they go on their date with Marcus's friends, he attempts to have sex with her. The addition of Marcus's friends to the date revealed the type of person he is when he is around his peer group. The addition of Marcus's peers to the date was a huge negative and hurt Hannah's feelings as she caught on that he was trying to impress his friends. In the article, "Peer Groups as a Context for School Misconduct," it talks about a test that was upheld throughout schools regarding the positive and negative effects of peer groups (Boyko, Chen, Ellis, Kinal, Zarbatany 2017, 1). They found that negative actions from peer groups become widespread (Boyko, Chen, Ellis, Kinal, Zarbatany 2017, 2). The study also showed that members of a peer group were more likely to stay a part of that group if it was a positive oriented group, but people were more likely to