Clay Jensen: Tapes Used By Hannah Baker

| Tom wants his old life back prior to the accident and he sees the accident as the end of his life as he knew it. He loses his sense of identity and sense of family in particular.Feels guilty and ashamed about the irrevocable consequences his brother’s irresponsibility had for other people and their familiesRetreats into a depressed state which feels empty and black.

Deej Logan was just like any normal high school girl. She woke up on her first day of school and combed her hair, picked out the “perfect” outfit and headed out the door. What she didn’t know is that after that day nothing would be the same. Nothing that day seemed to be going right. At school drama was swarming all around her, not exactly what she hoped the first day would be like. By the time the last bell of the day rang she was more than happy to get out of that school. She drove home as quickly as she could but as soon as she got home she realized that she had forgotten to pick up her sisters. “Great.” She thought sarcastically as she sat back down in her car and drove off. Just then she pulled out her phone to message one of her friends about her awful day. That one decision changed everything. Before she had a chance to send the message Deej veered off into oncoming traffic and was killed on impact.

The main character, Charlie must navigate through it even while feeling motionless and scared. He tells his story to the reader from his perspective. The reader sees life from exactly the way he sees the events and understands those events through a teenage boy’s eyes. The crisis is introduced when the town outcast Jasper Jones asked Charlie, a bookish young nobody of a boy for help. The reader sees Charlie’s internal conflicts of wanting to go with Jasper, feeling terrified, excited yet so wanting to be accepted by him Charlie does in fact sneak out in the middle of the night with his new friend. Jasper takes Charlie to the scene of the crime where Jasper’s girlfriend is hanging from a tree. The manner that Silvey describes Charlie’s reaction to the hanged girls is true to human nature, “I’m screaming, but they are muffled screams. I can’t breathe in. I feel like I’m underwater. Deaf and drowning.” This description foreshadows the solution to hide the body and Jasper and Charlie throw Laura Wishart into the lake. Unknown to either is Laura Wishart’s sister, Eliza. She witnessed the suicide of her sister and wrote the word “sorry” on the stump of the tree before she leaves. Charlie and Jasper find this word, assume that the killer wrote it there, and immediately jump to the

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.

One reason teens should read 13 reasons why is because it teaches people that words someone says can actually hurt people. Words truly do hurt, and at this moment Hannah Baker is standing in a store named Blue Spot. Hannah is about to experience that very situation of how words can hurt. While Hannah is standing at the cash register a guy walks in, Hannah doesn't like him because he has put her on the list of best butt in high school class. This guy walk around the store and then walks up behind Hannah and stood there waiting,

She was walking home from work and was mugged by 5 men. They robbed her and when she began to resist shot and killed her. Jordan quickly fell into depression, his grades dropped even further. He cut off communication with the coach, denying the scholarship and his chance at getting out. He is forced to live by and fend for himself. His state gets exceedingly worse, he gets even more involved with drugs and goes into a state of deep depression. Eventually, he even loses his friends. He is now without friends, without an education, and without a mother figure, trying to survive in society. He struggles to provide for himself, even the daily necessities, including food, and a place to stay. He is too depressed and unmotivated to work a job, or do anything

Restricted by the society of his time, Clay finds his freedom and outlet through his passion for writing and infinitely, through his love for Tracy Bacon. A miracle New York had spat out for Mr. Clay only to reprimand it’s miracle harshly and create a dim truth that would illuminate Sammy’s life for the rest of his remaining days. It is important to realize that New York, while piping hot and burning, is capable of producing gentle truths and reminding one of them with a needle-stacked and thorn lavished whip. New York, a city of love and degradation for Sammy, caused him to spiral upwards into social graces and inner acceptance and then tumble him back down into where he was first conceived, in the womb of his mother: regressing back to being infantile, unsure, and pervasively unsteady. Sammy’s logic, though skeptic and skewered from the abuse, allows him to see right through the false memoranda of New York and by effect, seep his soul into the heart of his beloved city and grasp it’s beating heart by the horns and make it utterly and completely,

Hannah and Mitch are from two different cliques which causes a problem with their relationship. When Hannah and Mitch are together, their relationship is good and fun, but when they are around his friends, the popular crowd, it is awkward and he barely talks to her. Mitch ends up breaking up with Hannah over text message and crushed her yet again. She then is determined to get away from Warsaw. Going to California causes an argument with her parents; she wants to get away from Warsaw and claims it is bad for her. She also tells her parents she does not want to end up like them. After graduating, she does move to California to being her residency. Hannah stayed in California for eight months and realized she hated it. She then moved to New York where she began school and loved

Clay Jensen is the main character in Jay Asher's mysterious novel Thirteen R3asons Why. Clay is the narrator of the disturbing tale of a high school sophomore, Hannah Baker's unorthodox suicide. Hanna recorded thirteen tapes, all directed towards different people explaining why they were responsible for her suicide. Because Clay has always been in love with Hannah, hearing her voice on tapes she had recorded before she committed suicide was a hard pill for him to swallow.

Asher based this entire novel on his life; How he was affected by bullying and how he viewed teenagers interacting with each other. Initially, Jay talks about how each character in the book is somewhat relatable to him as he was growing up, but he identified that he felt the most connected with the character Clay (Diaz). Jay describes Clay as “non-confrontational,” an attribute he himself displayed in high school, which he says “can be good, but can also be a weakness” (Diaz). Not only was Jay able to align himself with Clay, he also found that he could join with Hannah’s character traits as well. Jay describes Hannah as, “a romantic in how she sees the world, which makes it even more crushing when the world doesn’t unfold how you think it

The story begins with Clay Jensen sending the box of cassette tapes to the next person who had a hand in the death of Hannah Baker. The day before, Clay was surprised to receive a package after school. He found that the package contained seven tapes, and put in the first tape, not knowing what to expect. He was horrified to hear the voice of the girl who killed herself earlier in the year, Hannah Baker. She said that whoever was

“Each tape has a dark blue number painted in the upper right-hand corner, possibly with nail polish. Each side has its own number” (5). Now, at the start of the story, Clay just got a box of tapes and opened it up to notice all of the thirteen tapes

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.

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

The theme of the book "Thirteen Reasons Why" is that you can make a differance in someones life if you put aside your fears. I feel this because if Clay would've put aside the rumors he heard and his reputation there may have been a better outcome.