Hannah is a 19-year-old college freshman who suffers from many disabilities including epilepsy, asthma and depression. On the night of her first show in a play at her college, she suddenly collapses on stage. After a number of tests, Hannah meets with her parents and a doctor from the hospital where her dad works. The doctor, who also served as her therapist, then quotes passages from Hannah's journal to her parents that reveal that she has been feeling lost and unwanted. This results in an argument, in the doctor's office, between Hannah and the adults in her life. Eventually the fight reveals that not only that she is adopted, but that her biological mother had tried to abort her.
After leaving the doctor's office Hannah experiences a range of emotions from confusion and anger, to desperation. Hannah seeks out her best friend, Jason, for advice. After sorting through her options, she decides to find her birth mother. Jason then invites Hannah to go on a road trip for spring break with a group of his friends who are driving along the east coast. Hannah's father doesn't like her plan because there are many things that could go wrong because of her sicknesses, so he doesn't give her permission to go. As they continue arguing he finally says that he trusts her to make the right decisions regardless of what his opinions are, but if she is to go she has to check in with her doctor and stay with the group. Hannah decides to go because she says she needs/wants to know who she really is.
In the next scene, she is leaving on her adventure that leads to her birthplace in Georgia. The group she is traveling with stays overnight at a hotel and Jason's girlfriend (who is traveling with them) says some mean things to Hannah about her situati...
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... it was a sign and that they should adopt her.
After hearing their (her) story, she runs. Out of the house, down the street, and away. She wanders aimlessly until she sees a church and goes in. She talks to the priest about the power of forgiveness and how it lets us move on and be free. She has an epiphany and is able to forgive her bio mom and forget about the failed abortion and just live her life.
Hannah goes home and all is well. She goes back to college and Jason takes Hannah back to the theater where she had collapsed. He gives her the opportunity to finish the show, and they begin to realize that they want to be more than friends. The last scene is Hannah and Jason saying goodbye to her parents. She thanks them for wanting her when nobody else did and then her and Jason walk off into the sunset with her smiling back at her parents and holding Jason's hand.
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...
Hannah the main character, Hannah starts off at a dinner with her family which she thinks is very boring where Hannah who thinks she drank too much wine believing that she is daydreaming. Whilst in her mind as she was "daydreaming" Hannah had came into the kitchen to new surroundings very confused she was greeted by a girl named Eva who had greeted her by the name of Chaya. (Chaya meaning life). Hannah soon hears from Eva that it is the year 1942 and that both her parents were very ill and passed away being left for her Aunt Gitl and Uncle Shmuel to take care of her. Hannah learns that she is no longer in her home town. Hannah with Eva go to a wedding with all the family where half way through the wedding nazis come. It all makes sense to Hannah now because the nazis come and take them to a concentration camp which for some reason Hannah knew what was about to happen once the nazis got closer. The nazis came closer soon stopping right in front of them they get out of their trucks as they start pushing them all into the back of the trucks separating them. As Hannah drives off with Eva and everyone else in the trucks with bars for windows and the rest closed in left while watching helplessly as their houses and belongings burn to the ground never to be seen again.
At first, Hannah was a pesty, teenage girl who didn’t care about her family or religion. After undergoing a harsh journey, Hannah soon began to change her attitude. She now understands her family and her heritage better. As Hannah’s mind shifts, the theme is developed. Hannah understands how the events in a person’s life can impact the person they are today. In addition, she learned that it is important to remember our history. Those who do not remember the past are destined to repeat
In the first place, she was developed to be secretive because of her loneliness, but befriending Jacob, Norman, and Paul makes her more social, which showed that life is better with sociability. This portion of the novel helped state that, "She looked surprised as though she couldn't believe she had talked so much " ( from page 131). Hannah is generally secretive and lonely, for she lost her family and was made as an example for her lost ears, but when she found out that Jacob was caring and friendly, she decided to trust him and answer his questions. Afterward, she was surprised and stopped, as if waking up from a dream but did not regret it totally. What we should discern from that, Finding a caring friend could change the reality. Moreover, their friendship then developed, and they got to be a family. In the second place, Hannah was unpredictable but did not point to it directly, yet exposed it for her friends, she did all she could. That was stated indirectly in the section on page 161, " She looked at the faces around her – Jacob, Oteka, Paul – and it was as though she began to draw strength from their courage emanating from them and enveloping her. " What Hannah only needed to reveal her real personality and impulsiveness was some courage from her friends, that she loved and cared for, which she read in their eyes. So, McKay delivered " friendship is strong " by making Hannah impulsive. If she was designed to be calm or shy, Norman would not have made it, or even Jacob, sacrificing it to save his friend. Hannah was described in that figure to enhance the idea of friendship's power in
Lily gets to stay in a home that makes her feel loved. She writes down her story, including her thoughts and emotions, into a book that was given to her by Zach.
These are the main points to the story. Hannah found a cure for her father's disease. She needs to help heal her father's leg or doctors will amputate.This is very important to Hannah. She wants to find the treasure and give all of the money to help heal her father. Another point is
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
That same night, I walked by Hannah’s cell and I saw her staring down at a newspaper clip out of a young teenager shaking hands with another man. I recognized that the boy was the man who visited today. Could he be Hannah’s son? If he is, then why hadn’t he visit her all this time? Hannah brushed her fingers across the books on her shelf, and took out a sheet of paper and started writing in it. This time, her eyes turned grey and they were empty, but free.
She thinks about how it covers the part about Hannah good; however, it doesn’t answer all the daydreams/flashbacks that she has a swell as the poka dot dress up in the attic. Since it is raining Reeve takes Janie to school, but on their way there Janie tells him to get on the highway and head to New Jersey; Reeve thinks she is joking but soon sees she is serious and follows her orders. Leading on to chapter 11 the two are headed to Jersey and have been driving for many hours. Janie tells Reeve everything but he doesn’t believe her as it seems contrary to how Reeve has come to see her parents. Janie decides that she wants to go look for the Spring family, so they look for a that family in a phone book. They find and address and head over to it, once they get there a school bus is dropping off kids. Two kids with red hair head over to the address they were looking for, the person who opened the door for them also had red hair just like Janie. They also came across a teenage boy with red hair going in to the same house, now Janie asked Reeve to please take her home as she now didn’t want all this proof to be real. They head home; however, they are met by traffic leading to them thinking about staying at a motel. In chapter 12 Janie explains to Reeve that she can’t have sex with him yet she’s not ready, Reeve understands still making out with her. They leave the motel even though
His sister, Olivia, has a hard time too because she wants to have a “normal’ teenager school year without having to deal with people gossiping about her brother's condition. Olivia and her mom are arguing about why olivia didn't invite her parents to see the play at school. Olivia is annoyed and doesn't want to feel ashamed for having a uniquely built brother in her school life because she knows if she had invited them to the play they would have brought august and started conflicts. August overhears them and feels that it's his fault his family goes through what they did and tells them he knows what's going on and it's his fault for being “ugly”. He even says in the book “you're both lying to my face like i'm a idiot… you (Olivia) don't want your brand- new fancy high school friends to knows your brother is a freak…”, This quote is showing how his mom tries to deny what he heard but he knows what he heard. Olivia also feels awful about what she said about her little brother but she had to tell her mother how she felt. August can see from that argument between his family that his mother keeps things from him and he doesn't appreciate that also he finds out that Olivia goes through a lot having an intimidating looking brother and having to be
First is the summary of the book and the movie. Hannah is a young Jewish girl. She was a brat and loathed going to family reunions because all her family talked about was the memory
Megan’s concern for Hannah’s wellbeing started as soon as she found out that she was pregnant, so she began drinking more water, however, because her tastebuds were not functioning properly, water tasted like metal to her, which always made her feel nauseous. One very strange, but incredible thing that Megan shared was that she never vomited during her pregnancy, she only felt nauseous. During this time in her pregnancy, Megan began reading Supernatural Childbirth, and mentioned that it helped her find Biblical scriptures to support her need to stay in a healthy
This emotional illiteracy could be for many reasons. For Michele, it may have been the lack of adulthood that was experienced in his life and for Hannah, it may have been because of the pain and suffering she
The Definition of Love Love by definition is an emotion explored in philosophy, religion, and literature, often as either romantic love, the fraternal love of others, or the love of God based on the definition found in The Encarta Encyclopedia. As I explored the definitions through the Internet, books, and articles, I noticed the definitions changed quite a bit, but yet had the same basic understanding. The definition I found in The Encarta Encyclopedia is probably the most simple and most basic. It refers to love in the whole aspect, which is Godly, fraternal, and romantic. All of which can only be defined by one word and that is love.
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