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What Happened To Hannah Baker's 13 Reasons Why

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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

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