For every person, there is something some other individual could say or do that can completely ruin their day. Whether this thing is something that is worth getting upset over or it is something that is a bit more meaningless to others, it can impact that person in a way that someone may or may not expect. That is, being sensitive with the things that can be said or done, can help a person in the long run. In Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher shows teens how the impact of their words and actions on others can have unpredictable results. The story begins with Clay Jensen sending the box of cassette tapes to the next person who had a hand in the death of Hannah Baker. The day before, Clay was surprised to receive a package after school. He found that the package contained seven tapes, and put in the first tape, not knowing what to expect. He was horrified to hear the voice of the girl who killed herself earlier in the year, Hannah Baker. She said that whoever was …show more content…
The things students had done and said to her had started the snowball effect. Her ball of problems was getting bigger and bigger as people carelessly did awful things to her. Clay noticed this throughout the story. Everything Hannah had a problem with when she was alive, had added to her pile of deep psychological trouble. Her problems that she had towards the end of her life were evident on the tapes. She started to think about suicide and what could happen if she decided to take that extreme. She even tried to seek help for one last grasp of hope from humanity, but it ultimately had just solidified her reason for why she should kill herself. The tapes ended with Hannah saying she is sorry and that even though some people cared, it was just not enough (Asher, p. 280). All this had impacted Clay in a way that made him learn from Hannah and help a girl who seems like she might be suffering like Hannah did. The story ends with Clay calling out her
Hannah has experiences in the story that change her. In chapter three, Hannah drank watered down wine for the first time. Hannah also got drunk. “ Uncle Sam poured another quarter glass of wine into her glass, then filled it the way with water for the next blessing.” this was on page 16. This experience is a huge role in the story because it causes her to fall asleep and have to crazy dream. Another quote is when Hannah says “I'm not Chaya.” On page 34, “I'm from New Rochelle. And I'm not Chaya, I'm Hannah’ When Shmuel’s eyebrows rose up and lines furrowed his brow, he looked so fierce Hannah moved back a step” Rivka explains to Hannah that she was sick and probably forgot. Hannah has many experiences in the story that change her.
The climax is when Clay eventually gets to his tape, because you are so curious and excited to find out what he did to Hannah.
After hearing Hannah's tapes, Clay risked his reputation to reach out to a girl at his school named Skyler, who was known as a suicide risk. Clay did not want what happened to Hannah to happen to Skyler, so he reached out to her to let her know that she had a friend and had someone to talk to about life. Clay also did things during the story that encouraged other people, and he always wanted to help others succeed. Clay also was willing to pay back all that he had owed to Ms. Rosie, which shows that he is also an honest guy ("Character Analysis"). He was such an outstanding person that it is understandable why Hannah Baker did not name him as another reason for her suicide; instead, she thanked him for being the person that he
Everyday humans are presented with new opportunities and situations. These events can change the way they think and make decisions. But it's the way it can change ones relationships that can really hurt one's ability to care. There is a total of 7.442 billion people alive today. Yet only a small portion of that are people one truly cares about. For many people, a specific setting, situation or emotion can alter the way people can think rationally.
Serious events can cause change in a person's life. S.E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders tells a story about a teenage boy, Ponyboy, that lives with his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. Pony and his gang are all poor Greasers so they are constantly mugged by the privileged Socs. Since the Socs and Greasers do not get along and are constantly fighting each other, the kids are almost always injured. In The Outsiders, Ponyboy learns a lot of important lessons because of the events that take place. Pony learns that all Socs are not mean, that Darry does love him, and that there is lots of good in the world. He learns many different things that help his life; however, the most valuable lesson is that all Socs are not rude.
“‘Help me’, she begged her sister, but Becca didn’t move” (Jordan 5). Hannah had many difficulties in her life that changed her. When she was little she had one view of the world, and after she got older and experienced hard times her views changed. Every new day had put a piece to create her. She was one person at the beginning of the book, but after all situations she became more independent.
There are things that happen when we are growing up that change us when we are grown. There are things that change us forever. Every human being is different, and there is a reason why . All of us had a childhood and all kinds of experiences some good, some bad, some full of joy but also others very painful. Eventually we grow childhood and mature depending of what we have gone through. The way we are able to handle situations is very important because one thing leads to another. We can't rely on intuition, we need to have logic in what our choices are. We can’t just punch someone in the face just because we don’t like a certain individual, or go up to
The Uglies have similarities from both films Hunger Games and 13 Reasons Why. It creates the intention that people have to be pretty to have a good life. This can be related to Uglies as mentioned before, the two films tell us how the world can be opposite us. As Yvonne has mentioned, this novel is set in the future the but it can be much related to the present.
People need to be careful of their actions because it can make a big differenece with just one little mistake of a action. ¨ Now you know why i didnt tell anybody¨ (McMann 98). In the Book , the main character is Janie. Janie told Cabel her gift , Cabel started ignoring her slowly. That is why she is saying that in the book. This evidence is showing that people need to be careful who they tells things that can affect their actions. People need to know what they do that cause them to regret their action. Most people forget to think before they speak/do their action. This book Wake is a good book to help teens realize its very important to take care of their own actions they
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.
By the end of the novel Hannah began to doubt her self-identity because of the “snowball effect” which started with her having to move to a new town, and thus became socially vulnerable. This resulted in others creating a string of false gossip about her, which caused Hannah to shut people out on the assumption that
The theme of the book "Thirteen Reasons Why" is that you can make a differance in someones life if you put aside your fears. I feel this because if Clay would've put aside the rumors he heard and his reputation there may have been a better outcome.
The movie thirteen touched many important factors of adolescent’s development. Some of the ones I want to concentrate in this paper are: family system, developmental tasks, and peer pressure.
Hannah is desperately giving people ‘signs’ that she is “breaking, slowly dying”. Clay noticed this and turns the other way, and giving up on any thought of communication between them at that moment. Ultimately, giving up on her as well unknowingly. This becomes clear when Clay thinks, “A flash. But she knew I was watching her. And even though no one else saw it, I turned away. She was on her own.” (Asher 192). Clay finally realized how he gave up on not only Hannah, but the communication between them. Clay chose silence rather than a decision that could’ve saved her life. This illustrates how Clay notices Hannah’s desperate pleas and signs to people of what she is going through, but Clay turns his back completely with his choice of silence. Consequently, his choice had resulted in Hannah choosing suicide because of how she truly felt alone. It also reveals that Hannah is left alone by the person who claimed to ‘like’ her. The words that have an impact are ‘I turned away. She was on her own’. The author used these words to show how Clay’s choice of silence left Hannah alone. Clay might've been able to save her if when he could be the one to save her all along if he had said what he truly felt. The author wanted to demonstrate how Clay’s decision not only made him turn away from Hannah truly isolating her from him which led to
These are simple, short lines but, one can perceive the tone of resignation fueled by complete belief in her thoughts as the truth; thoughts that ultimately led to her self-destruction. There is this one funny thing about humans and the world. There are many truths- too many. And no one is capable of discerning whether they are lies or not. Each one has their own beliefs and nobody is given the advantage of having seen the “ultimate truth” because what we think our truths are, are truths merely because we believe them to be so. Hannah’s “truth” was her belief that she could not be saved and that suicide was her only way. So, we are only given the right to believe that what we think is