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Analysis Of Thirteen Reasons Why Watching Clay

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Thirteen Reasons Why watches Clay, as he returns home from his university to find a weird and very mysterious package on his front door. When he eagerly opens the mysterious package it, Clay finds seven mysterious cassette tapes with two sides each. Upon injecting them into his family’s boom box, he discovers they were recorded by his friend Hannah Baker, a girl that he went to school with who recently killed herself. Her instructions were very clear, each person who receives the 7 recordings is one of the reasons why she killed herself, and after each person has completed or listening to the tapes, they must pass the readings on to the next person. If anyone decides to split the chain and doesn’t give them to anyone else, a separate …show more content…

The 2 were introduced by their first guidance counselor, who wanted to give them a trusted friend while they adjusted to the brand new school. Hannah never considered Jessica or Alex Standall a very close or trusted friend even though they hung out a lot at a local coffee diner. Jessica and Alex dated for some time and then later broke up. After the best butt incident, Jessica was offended that Alex chose Hannah over her, and the two stopped speaking a lot. Jessica continued to bring up the rumors about Hannah.
The fourth tape is addressed to Tyler Down, who stalked Hannah outside of her bedroom window all time and took pictures of her. In addition to Tyler, though, the tape also describes a nameless girl, a girl who Hannah knew somewhat well, and with her help, she helped to catch the Peeping Tom. Hannah felt violated by Tyler as her privacy had been infringed on.
The story of Courtney Crimson is shown in the fifth tape. She is known as a sweet, mostly well-liked girl, a personality which Hannah explains that she fell for. Following the event with Tyler, Hannah began to feel very excluded by Courtney Crimson, and even when Courtney asked her to come to a party she still felt a little bit of something going on. Courtney left hannah at that party, and later Hannah found out that Courtney had been spreading rumors about the things she’d found in Hannah’s top dresser drawer.
The sixth tape is addressed to Marcus Cooley, who Hannah had become matched within a survey. He

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