Suicidal Thoughts In Looking For Alaska

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, Looking For Alaska by John Green, and It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini all focus on the daily struggles a person living with depression and suicidal thoughts face. These authors are targeting these books towards people to send the message across that loved ones need to do more in order to help people struggling with depression. A better message for authors to be sending would be to target those with suicidal thoughts, and how their actions take a toll on the life of their loved ones. People oversee the effect their decisions have on their loved ones, which is a message that needs to be spread throughout today's literature.

Someone close to a person with suicidal thoughts are filled with a constant sadness that takes a toll on them in more ways than one. The mental sadness a person feels when their thoughts overtake

In the novel Looking for Alaska, the sudden and tragic death of Alaska leaves Pudge mentally unable to think of anything other than her death: "I could hear the Colonel screaming, and I could feel hands on my back, but I could only see her lying naked on a metal table" (Green). John Green, the author of this novel, was demonstrating that Pudge did not do enough to help Alaska, and because of that he is punished with feeling this way, when in reality the selfish decision Alaska made to take her life instead of getting help is what leaves Pudge feeling mentally unstable, and having to live with the constant regret that what happened is his fault, when it is not. To continue, when your sadness takes over your body physically, you feel unable to cope with the tragedy that has occurred. Clay Jensen experiences this after he has to live through the death of Hannah Baker, and her decision to leave him feeling empty: "My fingers, my hands, my arms, my neck, everything feels hollow" (Asher). Jay Asher wrote Thirteen Reasons Why to demonstrate that everything you say to a person matters. What Hannah didn't