13 Reasons Why Hannah Baker Committed Suicide

Page after page, Thirteen Reasons Why captivated me throughout the entirety of the story and left me weeping over the pain that Clay and Hannah experienced. Clay Jensen, a hardworking, overachieving high school boy, received a box of tape recordings from a girl who he’d never thought he’d hear from again—because she was dead. She committed suicide a week before and Clay was still in shock; feelings to which I could relate. Clay scavenged around town for clues about her life as he listened to the deranged voice of the girl he liked, Hannah Baker. He then learned her “reasons” for ending her life: people and actions—like the sexual harassments that multiple boys put her through or a death she felt she could have prevented—that left her broken and isolated.

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.

as likely to die from suicide than a teenager growing up in 1960. One of the

In the book Thirteen Reasons Why, Hannah Baker committed suicide. Before she died, she sent out 7 tapes and on each side of the tapes there were recordings about the thirteen reasons why she committed suicide. Each side of the tape had a person as a reason why and the recording was of Hannah explaining why they were on the tapes. The tapes were numbered so after a person listened to the tapes, they would have to send them to the next person or another set of the same tapes would be released to the public for everyone to hear.

On day two Samantha was really confused, did she dreamed the night before or was she just going crazy. Through the day she got some control over the day.

“More teenagers and young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease, combined,” according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, an issue thoroughly discussed in the novel The Program by Suzanne Young. This dystopian story features a society where there is an overwhelming amount of teen suicide. It uses many realistic aspects of life that allows the reader to relate to the exaggerated reality of the story. The author uses the act of suicide and brings it to an extreme sense to create a realistic plot.

Clay Jensen, a shy high school student, returns home from school one day to find that he has received a mysterious package in the mail. It contains seven double-sided cassette tapes used by Hannah Baker, a classmate who has recently committed suicide. Each tape details a reason that she killed herself. The tapes were sent to various other people before arriving at Clay's door.

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

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

Clay is the protagonist because he is the only person who is on the list who didn't give her a reason to kill herself. Hannah always heard great things about Clay and she really wanted to meet him so she snuck out to go to a party she knew he was attending.

Stressful doesn’t even begin to cover what a teen’s life is like. They deal with school, social cliques, and constant pressure from the world around them. All this stress can lead to depression, which can lead a vulnerable teenager to consider suicide as an option for dealing with their problems. The tv show Thirteen Reasons Why has opened the eyes of many teen and adult viewers to how and why suicide affects those around you. Although it may be hard to talk about suicide with your peers and parents, it is important to discuss and understand why it happens, because it educates others about the reality of suicide and shows how small actions can create huge consequences.

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,

The impact on one person can turn into a circle of impact, changing everyone's view of life around a person. In Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher the content in the book proves how impactful one person can be. Hannah who reveals her struggles though tapes shows how impactful her story is to clay who struggles with the realization that he is one of the reasons for her death. When Clay find the tapes Hannah starts by warning clay how he will learn things about her that he may not want to know as “ [she] hope[s] [he is] ready, because [she is] about to tell [him] the story of [her] life.” As Clay learns more he becomes conflicted as he wanted to know her, he wanted to help her through what was occurring in her life. Consequently the impact

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.