THIRTEEN REASONS Why: Soapstone
For Thirteen Reasons Why, I am going to explain the literary terms. Thirteen Reason is about a girl named, Hannah Baker who killed herself. Before Hannah killed herself she made 13 videos of why this person made her make that decision.
Characters: In “Thirteen Reason Why,” there are two main characters, Clay, and Hannah. Clay is developed as this ordinary student in high school, and get these videos about Hannah Baker. Hannah Baker is the girl who killed herself, and explains all her feelings about others, and tells what she hears from others.They both interact by,Hannah giving her point of view about the others person, and Clay listens to everything she says, and thinks about the others. In this quote it explains how they interact with each other: “ You pushed him off and stood up. Then he stood up, and you both looked at each other; not sure of what to do. And your decision? You ran back down the street while Kat and I laughed like crazy in the window. Clay: “ I remember that. Kat thought it was so funny. She told me about it at her going-away party this summer.” In each video she explains what each person did to her, to make her make this decision. Some of the characters she was talking about was: Justin, Courtney, Jessica, Tyler, and many more.
Ideas: The main idea in this is definitely that you could be hurting someone, without even knowing it. This is theme because, the people who made Hannah commit suicide, didn't even think it was affecting her! Like in this quote, “ Then Courtney said we should split up. And do you want to know my first thought when you said that, Courtney? Gee, that sure didn’t take long.” pg: 103. Courtney for sure didn't know how Hannah felt after that. Hannah felt li...
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Evidence: In “Thirteen Reasons Why,” there is evidence for each videos. You find out all these answers about people, and what they did. In this quote “Justin, honey, you were my very first kiss. My very first hand to hold. But you were nothing more than an average guy.” Clay: Justin Foley?” Hannahs first kiss?” pg: 12. In that quote it meant that Hannah was saying that Justin was her very first kiss, and it gave evidence for Clay to use. There were even pictures in the box of videos.
Why did the author write this?: Well I think the author wrote this because it gave a lesson on bullying, and how much anger you can get out of it. She wanted to give a lesson on how bullying could make people commit suicide that easy. It even taught me a lesson. I never knew how strongly people felt, and had the guts to risk their own lives!
2) Hannah tells stories of her “other” life in which she attends school and looks forward to the weekends. As Chaya, her new friends are again shocked by the fact that she-a girl-attends school. Hannah explains that he...
Most acts of bullying are dealt with, but not always in the correct way of doing so. Bullying Policies in many schools state that bullying is not tolerated and has consequences that will be used if bullying occurs. However, Jodi draws our attention to the issue that not all schools have a policy that states the consequences of bullying and practically just tells the victim to fight back and stand up for himself. This generally makes things worse for the victim by allowing the bully think that the victim is trying to "embarrass" the bully. With repeated attacks on one, it will have him/her believe they are either "useless" or think that they have to do something to prevent the next attacks, and this may not always be pretty or the "right" way. The results of these intense, repeated attacks can cause the victim Just like this book, shootings are a result of bullying, derogation, and ignorance and end ultimately end with many
Inside he discovers cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, who had committed suicide two weeks earlier. On the tape Hannah discusses the 13 reasons why she committed suicide him being one of them. Clay Jenson goes around town listening to Hannah and her thoughts about how she saw life. In the end he learns that a lot of people hide in their own skin and face challenges most people can’t see. In the end his view changed and it is showed by him going to a girl in the back of the bus who used to be popular but suddenly changed, showing he notices her change like
The first is that this case is a terrifying tragedy, where a community and a family are devastated. This is shown through the two articles “Hannah Graham’s Parents Make Emotional Plea for Help” and “Two Girls Gone: Family Shares Grief and Plead for Vigilance.” These articles pull at the heartstrings of the public. It is an attempt to gain more viewers by creating a sense of sadness and also relatability, since Hannah was a smart, young, innocent woman simply out on the town having
In Jay Asher’s Novel Thirteen Reasons Why (2007), the characters struggle through many different ideas as they cope with how they played a role in Hannah Baker’s decision to commit suicide. While the idea of being the reason someone chooses to take their own life is not an easy thought to wrap one’s head around, and a thought that no one would even like to consider is true, Asher takes on this idea and helps teenagers come to terms with suicide. Thirteen Reasons Why forces the reader to reflect on the idea that every choice that one makes has an impact on everyone and everything around them.
Youth Suicide is one of the leading causes of youth death. In fact, statistics show that approximately 4600 teens commit suicide each year in the US (2013). One of the principal reasons why teens commit suicide is due to the fact that others have a huge negative impact on the teen's life. To prevent less deaths, one should learn that everything has consequences to it so one should consider how they affect others through actions and words. That is one of the central themes that Jay Asher shows in his book, Thirteen Reasons Why. He demonstrates the message by creating the tapes to represent the theme in the book. Asher also shows it by developing two strong lead characters, Hannah Baker and Clay Jensen.
The seventh tape is to Zach Dempsey, a boy she shared a class with. In this class, they had bags in the back of the room that were meant for anonymous compliments, a thing that Hannah always looked forward to. After her assault in the dinner with Marcus, Zach was there for her. But later she found out that he was removing the notes from her compliment bag. At this point, Hannah was already depressed and this just made it worse.
“Mean Girls” begins as Cady Heron moves back to the United States from Africa where her parents were animal experts. She has an awkward first week of school where she begins to crush on a boy named Aaron Samuels, meets Janice and Damian who show her around campus because no one really wanted to get to know her on a personal level. Janice and Ian begin to spill the dirty secrets of the school including “The Plastics” who are a superficial infamous group who put everyone down. “The Plastics” infiltrate an operation to make Cady one of them, but little do they know that it is all an act to show how fake they are, thanks to Janice Ian. Because Janice and Ian told Cady of all the bad that “The Plastics” hold, she had a schema that Regina George who is the leader of “The Plastics” and her crew, were bad people and that high school was all about popularity. The reason why Janice placed this schema was because she and Regina George used to be friends back in the day. Schemas can be bad or good, but in this case, it was quite bad. It was an act of vengeance. Although the schema may have made Janice and Damian despise “The Plastics,” it made Cady Heron want to be like them. Prejudice is found within “The Plastics” because they don’t just let anyone join their group, the gi...
There are many different examples demonstrating that the bullying experiences of the author are the main idea of the book. From 5th-12th grade she was tormented by her classmates. But her family and the friends she made along the way helped her get through and and overall she says it made her a better person. She overcame what happened her and let it change her in a positive way. She now works to prevent what happened to her from happening to anyone else. What could you do to prevent it? In conclusion, the main idea of this book is that bullying was a common occurrence in the life of Jodee Blanco but now the most common occurrence in her life is success.
With each analysis the reader gets a greater understanding of suicide and the mental state of those who commit it, as well as some of their motives. One could read only a single chapter of this book and gain a greater understanding than they previously had on the topic of suicide, but when one brings all the chapters together as a whole a much deeper understanding is obtained. Lester’s analyses start with diaries, using that of a girl he has called Katie as his first example. In this 14 page chapter he analyses her diary, not only comparing her to Ophelia from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, but using that comparison to show some of her motives and to make sense of them. It is this astute analysis that sets the tone for the rest of the similar chapters, in a way that is not boring but is not lighthearted in the slightest. The way that the whole book works together to give one insight on the topic of suicide makes it a useful resource for those who wish to understand it in a more in-depth way.
Bullying can change someone's life from happy to sad, IF we stop bullying less people will be sad.In the passage “all summer in a day” and the picture “pointing fingers” they both have a theme of bullying is not good.In life you may not like someone, and that is ok. What’s not ok is being mean to someone because you don’t like them.
...e becomes a misanthrope who considers suicide and withdraws from the company of others. Through these fictional characters, the readers can understand the importance of choosing the healthy ways to cope with terrible events that happen in their lives instead of the dysfunctional ways that the characters chose.
Jules Verne in his book, Mysterious Island, quoted: “It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason”. This quote can easily be associated with Hannah Baker, the protagonist of the book Thirteen Reasons why, written by Jay Asher. She likes candy, hot chocolate, blue nail polish, filling out surveys, and reading and writing poetry. Deeply romantic, she wants to find love, and is exploring relationships naturally, at her own pace. She's also smart, attractive, and friendly. Hannah had just arrived in a new town, new school, new people and was ready to start her life again, but what followed were the next three most miserable years of her life. She had entered her school with great expectations and a fresh look upon the world, but had found herself faced with great challenges and obstacles; she had to deal with being alone, fitting in, and not knowing who to trust. To overcome these problems Hannah had to go through immense hardships which developed her character largely; struggling with them developed her character in three instances: Her relationship with Justin Foley, the accident with Jenny Kurtz, and her very last interaction with Mr. Porter.
Porter and Hannah called the “snowball effect.” The “snowball effect” was described as what occurred when a chain reaction was set off by a significant event, causing each event followed it to intensify until became catastrophic. Hannah blamed Justin Foley for starting this; but, if she had not moved to begin with, Hannah would not have met Justin. Everyone thinking Hannah was “easy” changed her personality and the way she felt about herself, which led to her committing suicide. If Hannah had not moved to a new town in the first place she would not have had self-doubt.
John Green’s wonderful yet tragic best-selling novel The Fault in Our Stars tells a heart-wrenching story of two teenage cancer patients who fall in love. Augustus Waters and Hazel Lancaster live in the ordinary city of Indianapolis, where they both attend a support group for cancer patients. Falling in love at first sight, the two are inseparable until Augustus’s cancer comes out of remission, turning Hazel’s world upside. This is one of the best young-adult fiction novels of the year because it keeps readers on the edge of their seat, uses themes to teach real life lessons, and uses a realistic point of view instead of the cliché happy ending of most books.