Have you ever been so depressed and upset that you feel like you can not live anymore? Like everything is just a waste of time? Everything anyone does wrong just pushes you over the edge. That is exactly what happened to Hannah Baker in 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher. Hannah is about 16 or 17. Just a normal girl in a normal town. Until she commits suicide. The town is in shock when they heard she did it. No one understood it. Until one day Clay Jensen opened his front door to 13 cassette tapes just sitting on his porch. He had no clue where they came from. They were all clearly marked in the order they should be listened to. He put the first one in not knowing what would happen. Out of the speakers Hannah’s voice is heard. He is in shock. Hannah is dead. How could this happen? Did she make these tapes before she killed herself to tell people why? Through the speaker was 13 peoples names, each on a separate tape. They were claimed to be the reasons she did what she had done. She said to keep what was on the tapes only between these 13 people. She made it clear to make sure you listen to all of them or there would be consequences. So Clay did exactly what he was …show more content…
A guy smacking a girls butt is an example of this. This is what happened to Hannah. “A cupped hand grabbed my ass” (Cassette 1 Side B). She claimed that this was one of the reasons as to why she committed suicide. I am sure that all the other 13 reasons contributed to it, but I feel like this should not have even been put in here because of how irrelevant it is to why people commit suicide today. If someone right now were to come up to just about any girl in high school right now and smack their butt, of course they will be super angry. I do not think anyone would think of committing suicide over that. Of course you have no idea what is going on in that person's life at the time, but that is not a reason to be added to why you would have done it in the first
There are seven tapes and each side of the tape is for a specific person who had a role in helping Hannah commit suicide. The first tape is addressed to Justin Foley who was Hannah’s first kiss. They had a sweet, innocent kiss, however, Justin decided to spread a rumor that much more happened, which lead Hannah to be called a “slut” for the rest of high school year.
After Marcus had left when she kicked him out of the booth, she sat at her table and did nothing. Marcus revealed to Hannah that nobody knew her and only thought they knew her by her reputation. Later, Zach came to her table to try to talk to her, but she ignored him, so he left. Zach got mad at her for not talking to him because he stole her messages from her bag in one of their classes. The bags are in the class for people to tell other people nice things. When Zach stole these, Hannah had needed them the most because this was when she started to think about suicide. Because of this, Zach became Hannah’s seventh reason why.
Hannah's tapes weren't only about people and the problems they have caused her; one of the tapes is about seeking help. She really needed someone to help her out with the burden she carries every day she needed someone to give a reason to live, she needed someone there for her. She needed a friend the type of friend that would listen and tried to understand what she's been going through. Like Hannah wants help she doesn't want to end it just there she wants a reason to live so in the book she says “ I’m giving life one more chance. And this time, I’m getting help. I’m asking for help because I cannot do this alone. I’ve tried that.”(Asher 269). Therefore, Hannah is asking for help even though Clay was there for her but she pushed him away
I believe that Hanna Baker was powerless because the last couple of months while she was still alive she had no one to count on anymore. No one, not one person. Not even her parents and that is just completely heartbreaking. All she wanted was someone to pay attention to her, to actually care for her but nobody cared. All they cared for was themselves no one else and that is just selfish. All the thirteen reasons, all those people were the reasons. Hannah choose to do those cassettes to let them know why and be reasonable for it. Hannah left a note in Mrs. Bradley bag to talk about a topic. “Suicide. It’s something I’ve been thinking about” (Asher 170). One of her classmate says it’s because she wanted “attention” and didn’t wrote her name on the note. Hanna did wanted attention,
Jay Asher’s novel 13 Reasons Why follows the suicide of Hannah Baker and the events that lead her to her fate. The most influential characters of the novel all attend Liberty High School and all of them in their own ways, lead Hannah to her suicide. Clay Jensen is the main protagonist in the novel and the narrator. Throughout the book we follow his reactions of Hannah’s tapes and his interpretation of them. IN fact we follow Clay as desperately attempts to teach everyone included on the tapes the effect that their words and actions have on others. The twelve tapes follow the 12 most influential people that lead Hannah to her suicide. These tapes include, Jessica Davis and Alex Standall who are Hannah’s first friends at Liberty High. Justin
One reason teens should read 13 reasons why is because it teaches people that words someone says can actually hurt people. Words truly do hurt, and at this moment Hannah Baker is standing in a store named Blue Spot. Hannah is about to experience that very situation of how words can hurt. While Hannah is standing at the cash register a guy walks in, Hannah doesn't like him because he has put her on the list of best butt in high school class. This guy walk around the store and then walks up behind Hannah and stood there waiting,
The new girl at school is naturally shy and alone, but Hannah Baker seemed to have it easier acquiring friends and such, she is pretty popular for being the new girl but that didn't last long, people started many rumors going around but of course these rumors are not true and yet they just keep bundling up until she's reached her breaking point. No one saw it coming, no one expected it, no one noticed she was about to committed suicide. But before she committed such an event, Hannah left behind a total of seven cassette tapes and thirteen stories leading to her death, the reasons to why she was driven over the edge. Each tape was directed towards one specific person in which they caused one horrifying reason to her death. The tapes was put
In the beginning of the movie, Hannah comes off as a bright, happy, and outgoing girl. However, it soon changed after her boyfriend, Joel, broke up with her. She really loved him and stated, “I can never imagine not having him in my life”. (American Teen)
In the novel 13 Reasons Why a teenage girl, named Hannah Baker, commits suicide amid rumors, betrayal and lies about her personal life. In the story 13 Reasons Why, Clay Johnson is introduced as a teen going through emotional turmoil, as Hannah Baker a friend of his has just committed suicide, and put out tapes about it. He and many others exhibited throughout the tapes are overwrought with emotion, as they follow the days and ultimately the 13 reasons why Hannah kills herself. rumors, reputation and sexual assault
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
Clay Jensen, a junior receives a box in the mail containing seven double-sided cassette tapes used by Hannah Baker, a girl who recently committed suicide at their high school. Each of the tapes contains the thirteen reasons as to why she killed herself and the people who are responsible for those reasons along with it. The tapes she made are a scavenger hunt leading to places that are significant to her story and passed on from person to person. Clay, the narrator of the story follows the tapes to the significant places that coincided with her death and realizes how Hannah was trying to show the people on the tapes the impact they made on her life resulting in her death. As Clay reaches the end of the tapes, he experiences firsthand Hannah’s
Even the remarkably negligible actions of ours have abundance, momentous consequences, however, sometimes we only comprehend after the catastrophe has occurred; after someone has taken their life. To commence "Thirteen Reasons Why", written by Jay Asher, initially published in 2007, is a young adult book, consisting of teen drama, mystery and suspense throughout the novel. This novel revolves around the unexpected suicide of Hannah Baker, a teenage high school student who was driven into despair due to the numerous actions of bullying and betrayal by her peers. Subsequently, Clay Jenson, Hannah's former friend, comes home to find a peculiar package consisting of cassette tapes which Hannah made prior to her suicide, enlisting the thirteen
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.
Life is a beautiful thing, you experience things, both good and bad; that ultimately shape you into the person you are, until the day you die. But “for young people 15-24 years old, suicide is the second leading cause of death.” (SAVE.org). And sadly Hannah Baker from the fictional world of Thirteen Reasons Why, is no exception. In the text, Thirteen Reasons Why, written by Jay Asher, one goes through the final deciding moments of Hannah Baker’s life, through a classmate named Clay.
Communication is a powerful thing that may cause people to either drift apart or come closer. People communicate to be understood, but the lack of communication can lead a person to separate themselves from everyone else, only wishing to be understood. In Jay Asher’s book, 13 Reasons Why, Clay Jensen receives a box of tapes that claim they’re by Hannah Baker, a girl Clay claimed he ‘used to like’. The only problem is that Hannah Baker had committed suicide some time ago, and she mentions how whoever is receiving her tapes is a reason for her death. Now Clay has to locate the other tapes to find out the secrets behind Hannah’s death, and how he played a role in it. Through the process of listening to each tape Clay realizes something. If Clay