Hannah Baker's Thirteen Reasons Why

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We all know that one student in school that seems to be the focus of everyone’s conversation. What we may not know is how that affects them and what they are dealing with mentally and emotionally. In Thirteen Reasons Why, Hannah Baker is this person. She is a teenager battling depression. Not only has she moved to a new town with new faces, but she is the center of everyone’s attention right away. She catches everyone’s eye immediately. Series of events happen to her that break her down little by little. Throughout the book, you learn the reasons why she chooses to commit suicide, specifically, the thirteen reasons. There are tapes that are passed around person to person explaining why she killed herself. All of these reasons and stories …show more content…

In Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher makes some of the reasons that Hannah uses to commit suicide seem unrealistic compared to how high school actually is, he also portrays this picture that all nice, sweet guys are the shy introverts and that outgoing guys that are in the “it” crowd are jerks and only care about sex, partying, and …show more content…

He has two narrators. He allows Hannah to tell her story through the tapes she left behind. Then he has Clay telling his story through his reactions from listening to tapes. I think that is in an interesting part and it gives the book a stronger meaning. It allows the reader to connect to both people and both sides: one having depression and finally just giving up and one having to listen to the stories and reasons as to why his crush killed herself. While I was reading this book, I felt emotion from both characters. Clay battles with accepting Hannah’s decision and he feels guilty because he thinks he could’ve stopped it. Listening to Hannah’s stories allowed me to connect with her. I felt her struggle and her pain. It gave me insight to how even the tiniest of things can break a person especially when things just keep building

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