Dialectical Journal For 13 Reasons Why

In the novel Thirteen Reason Why, written by Jay Asher, a highschool boy named Clay Jensen receives a box full of tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, a girl who committed suicide just two weeks earlier. The book itself focuses on many important issues experienced by high schoolers today including bullying and suicide. Jay Asher makes sure to teach the reader important lessons that can be applied to things that we do every day. The most meaningful lesson that Jay Asher is trying to teach the reader is that although our actions may seem small and insignificant, they have much bigger consequences than we would imagine.

The book 13 Reasons Why is about a mournful, sad girl who decides to commit suicide and leaves cassette tapes on why and who did what. The character who decides to commit suicide is name Hannah Baker. She is emotionally hurt by all of the lies that everyone has been saying about her. Someone who doesn’t have much money and doesn’t have many friends starting a new school, then that number of friends expands. She is a very sweet and kind person who is loving and caring.

I believe that the author, Jay Asher, ended Hannah’s life and story the way he did for several reasons. Hannah taking her own life truly emphasized the impact of bullying, rape, and harassment has on someone. Hannah deciding to make tapes dedicated to the people her impacted her decision, then committing suicide on the final tape showed how much hate and vengefulness she had for everyone. It seemed to me as if she was trying to instill the idea that being a bad friend, rude classmate, and a straight up bully comes with consequences.

Throughout the last ten days I have been busy reading Jay Asher’s Thirteen Reasons Why, and I have finished it on page 288. In Thirteen Reasons Why, Clay Jensen, the main character, came home from school one day to find a mysterious package on his front door step. When Clay opens the package he discovers seven cassette tapes. Clay puts the first tape in the old radio, he found in his dads garage, a voice comes on. He recognizes this voice; it belongs to Hannah Baker. Two weeks ago Hannah Baker killed herself. Hannah made these tapes out to certain people. Every tape is to a different person, people that had an impact on Hannah’s suicide. One by one Clay listens to the cassette tapes, until he gets to his. Hannah tells him that he was like

The word anxiety is important to the novel because the theme of this book is depression and anxiety. The entire novel expresses the issues of depression and anxiety that many people have and how it is a hard topic to discuss about. Jay Asher, the author of “13 Reasons Why” uses Hannah Baker to let the readers experience and witness how depression and anxiety can affect a person or character. The character of Hannah Baker talks and shows the effect of anxiety and depression and this expresses the meaning of the novel. The character of Hannah Baker shows and reveals the mind of a person who has depression and anxiety. The author also uses quotations that express the topic of depression and anxiety. “I guess that’s the point of it all. No one

For any teen who've had dark thoughts of their own, the aftermath of Hannah's decision and the conclusions Clay reaches hopefully will make them think again.The story is told from the point of view of Clay, Hannah's classmate and one of the people she addresses her tapes to. We listen to the tapes together with Clay who reminisces about Hannah and reacts to Hannah's revelations.Before I get more into the story here's some background one of the main characters Hannah.She was simply another teenage girl in highschool,but new to area.She made cassette tapes before she died explaining the 13 reasons that led her to kill herself, put them in a package and sent them to the 12 people that were involved.Now Clay is a goody-goody, according to Hannah

Jay Asher’s novel “Thirteen Reason Why” has its ups and downs. When I first started reading the book I couldn’t help but think “what did these people do to Hannah to make her kill herself and haunt them from beyond the grave”. If you think about it that is what she is doing, haunting them from beyond the grave. As I got deeper into the book I started to realize why she made the cassette tapes and sent them out to these thirteen people. Throughout the book the person that is listening to Hannah’s tapes is Clay Jensen. He is portrayed as the good high school kid who always does his homework and never goes to any high school parties. Since he was a goody good it really made me think why he was on the tapes. I could not think of any possible reason

Major depressive disorder or depression is one of the most common mood disorders in the U.S. Its symptoms range from loss of appetite to anxiety. While in the book by Jay Asher “13 Reasons Why” Hannah Baker, a very optimistic girl, did commit suicide she did not suffer from this mood disorder and the evidence shows.

Has something horrible ever happened to you? How would you feel if you never knew what caused it? In my book, “Thirteen Reasons Why” the main character, Clay, finally gets an answer as to why the girl of his dreams committed suicide. He receives a package anonymously that has old tapes in it. As it turns out, Hannah, the girl of his dreams, made recordings of the “snowball effect” that cause her to commit suicide. It named everyone who had caused problems at some point in her life, and they will all receive the tapes. I rated this book a 9.5 because it was a very intriguing book and definitely a page-turner.

Jay Asher, while writing the novel Thirteen Reasons Why utilized suicide to connect with readers and write the novel on a personal level.Suicide intimately affects on average 6 people (11 Facts About…). Clay thought, “ ‘No, I can’t believe it. Hannah Baker killed herself.’ ”(Asher 7). Most people know someone who killed themselves, like Clay knew Hannah and Jay Asher's relative attempted suicide. Jay Asher also used suicide to give people a kind of closure with suicide since most people who knew someone who committed suicide do not understand their reasons for killing themselves. Hannah stated “ ‘I hope you’re ready, because I’m about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you’re listening to these tapes,

In many episodes of the show it shows very graphic content including how Hannah killed herself and it was really detailed, and could lead to suicide contagion or “copycat” suicide and some of the very first episodes showed rape scenes which could have triggered the audience who have dealt with that issue. 13 Reasons Why romanticizes suicide and makes it seem like people only kill themselves just to get back at people. 13 Reasons Why

I have mixed feelings about Thirteen Reasons Why, overall it's a great book, but at times I felt that it encouraged suicide to someone who might be thinking about it. The style of this book is neatly put together, having Hannah narrate the tapes, it feels as if you are listening to them and her voice is just talking in the back of your mind while you try to take on the mystery of these people and what they have done to her.However, I do believe that it’s an interesting narrative about suicide and how it impacts people and their differences. Even though I don't completely agree with the context of the book, it’s more it’s complexity, it makes you think deeper, it shows how one event can lead to another and end up taking someone's life. Hannah

In the book “13 Reasons Why” by Jay Asher, many choices are made and many consequences are not good or beneficial for any of the characters specifically Hannah Baker. Hannah Baker’s death was the consequence of many people decision. Hannah was a healthy teenager even though she was bullied raped and she committed suicide. She tried to look for help

On every side of each tape is about a different person and how that person contributed into her wanting to kill herself. Clay jensen is very confused and surprised to hear the different people and reasons why she wants to kill herself. As it turns out Clay himself is actually one of the reasons on one of

The ghost and haunting aspect in Thirteen Reasons Why is not what one normally imagines when they hear the word “haunted”. Instead of being haunted by a ghost in a haunted house or even having a physical ghost, Clay is haunted by the memory of Hannah, the tapes she sent, and the