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

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.

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.

A couple of tapes later, Clay hears his own name. Hannah relieves some of his stress by explaining how he truly did not belong on the list, but his role was important in leading into some of the other reasons why. Hannah recalls how at a party, Clay was able to open up about his feelings, and they kissed. Next, Hannah discusses how she decided to give up after the irresponsible actions of some other people. In the very last tape, Hannah, with the sliver of hope she has left, goes to her guidance counselor Mr. Porter. However, he lets her leave his room even after Hannah mentioned that she was suicidal. After finishing the tapes, Clay wishes he had made a better effort to get close to Hannah. The next day, Clay goes to school and sees Skye Miller walking in the hallways, of course by herself. The book ends as Clay calls out her

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.

By the end of the novel Hannah began to doubt her self-identity because of the “snowball effect” which started with her having to move to a new town, and thus became socially vulnerable. This resulted in others creating a string of false gossip about her, which caused Hannah to shut people out on the assumption that

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

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

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

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

Suicidal people often understand things that might seem incomprehensible to most. And they strangely display clarity of mind in most cases. Evidence shows that most suicide notes contain instructions of the concrete sort that are rational and comprehensive. This shows that they are rational in one way, though many might say they are not in the case of taking their lives. Their minds are made up and they rationalize the very action the way one would do for other situations. Hannah displayed a clairvoyance of thoughts throughout it all as evidenced by the tapes. The only thing which makes such an action different from any other is the metaphysical and ethical aspect of the action itself. This is the proposed “sane” side of the suicide theory of this research