Assessment Mackenzie Robinson In 13 Reasons Why By Jay Asher

First of all, Hannah doesn't want to respect or remember her history, until she sees why it's important to at the end of the story. When Hannah was with her family at the Seder dinner, she got to open the door for the prophet, Elijah. When she opens the door she gets transported back through time and meets Shmuel and Gitl.

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.

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.

When I first met Hannah, she blew me away with her creativity, musical talent, and kindness. However, none of these things were the first thing she taught me. That would have to be my firm belief in patience. I’m the person who dreads standing in line, dealing with other people, and even handling myself. You could say that I am impatient, I prefer the term driven. Hannah is the total opposite. While I highly doubt anyone is likes waiting in lines, she is willing to pick up her phone to help anyone at any time and has so much patience for herself. To top that off, she puts up with me which requires more patience than I will ever have. Hannah teaches me

At the beginning of the movie, Hannah can be preserved as someone who is disconnected from her Jewish heritage due to the fact she does not want to attend her family’s Passover Seder. The fact that her family celebrates important Jewish holidays implies to the viewer that Hannah grew up in a household that takes their religion and its traditions seriously. This makes Hannah different compared to her family. However, as the plot evolves, Hannah’s character development

Hannah’s singing alone was not enough to earn her the money to care for two boys. She took up sweatshop work on a sewing machine she rented to earn extra income. Due to the small amount of income they had, Charlie’s family moved in and out of orphanages and boys’ homes on a regular basis. Hannah’s career as a singer ended abruptly in 1894. She lost her voice during a performance. While the crowd was getting rowdy and

If Hannah would have truly opened up to Clay and discussed the difficulties she was having, she could have escaped her dark temptation to commit suicide. Staying with Clay could have also allowed Hannah to avoid future traumatizing events. After forcing Clay to leave her alone, Hannah had witnessed a tragic event that she believed she could have deterred from happening. However, she did not stop it which left a heavy burden of the feeling of responsibility. The tragic event she had witnessed at this party was her old friend Jessica being raped.

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.

Actually, how we see ourselves does not come from who we really are, but rather from how we believe others see us.” This was true in Hannah’s case. Hannah’s low self-esteem was caused by her peers’ increasingly low opinion of her. She believed that her classmates saw her in a poor light, so she did as well. In the novel, Hannah said, “I have no excuse. I could have stopped it-end of story. But to stop it, I felt like I’d have to stop the entire world from spinning. Like things had been out of control for so long that whatever I did hardly mattered anymore”. She felt that her actions did not matter anymore because no one would see her differently at that point in time. Her reputation had been built up as someone who was “easy” and untrustworthy. Others’ perception of Hannah caused her to doubt and hate herself in the end. This caused severe changes in her self-identity.

To rne the significance of the quote is that she admitted that even she doesn’t have the full story for everything that has happened to her because she can’t read minds to see what the other person thinks about everything. Also, that she doesn’t know what everyone was doing at all time all she knows is what happened to her. For example, say if Justin tried to stop the rumors that he started about hannah and she never heard about it or seen it that would be one of the gaps in her story. I think some of the major gaps in her stories is all the thing that people did in the background to try to help her get help and they were just too late to stop her. Also we can interpret what Ryan did with her poem as his way of trying to get Hannah some help

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

There are thirteen tapes and each one is dedicated to a person who had to do with her suicide. The tapes are passed around to each person involved;

Hannah Baker was a simplistic girl, she loved candy, hot chocolate and playing in parks. Nobody ever imagined she would take her own life. In the book it seems like Hannah got to be her own worst enemy, leading to her seemingly inevitable death. “I wish I would die.I've thought those words many times. But it's a hard thing to say out loud. It's even scarier to feel you might mean it.” when Hannah said this, it felt real and had Clay wondering if he could have done more to stop her suicide, “I'm listening to someone give up. Someone I knew. Someone I liked. I'm listening but I'm still too late.” Clay seems to feel as though he affected her death and this causes him to breakdown, but it also motivates him to finish listening to the tapes quicker. When Hannah say, “No return engagements. No encore. And this time, absolutely no requests.” it is clear that she hadn't had a lot of hope for her

The lesson I received from this book was that a person’s actions can affect others’ self-esteem and life. In this novel, the main characters are Hannah Baker and Clay Jensen. Hannah was a new student at high school, after encountering several experiences, rumors spread about her. Later, she then started to feel depressed and committed suicide because of the way people treated her. Hannah left a set of 13 tapes explaining the 13 reasons why she ended her life. Clay Jensen, receives these tapes but is not sure why (pg.5). After, finding out that he is in one of the tapes, Clay is eager and desperate to find out what he did wrong to make Hannah commit suicide.He listens to them, and the whole picture of Hannah’s drama-filled life unfolds. As I said before, the lesson I learnt was that your actions can affect a person’s life. The thirteen people in this book that hurt Hannah's feelings and made her feel worthless, which changed how she saw herself and the way she felt about herself.

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