Hannah's Tapes Struggle For Help

Suicide is an obvious issue in the book, because it is what the book is based on. Hannah committed suicide because of the things she went through, and at the end of the book clay ends up recognizing signs thanks to Hannah’s tapes and helps his old from Skye who he sees as pushing away from others and becoming distant. In the book Hannah says. Hannah cautions those she has mentioned on the tapes to not underestimate the power and influence their words and actions may have on the lives of others. They may think their actions are secluded and not a big deal, but as Hannah reveals, everything is connected and carries power and in return can cause someone to hurt themselves or even cause them to take their own

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.

Hannah’s background as a Holocaust survivor is important for understanding the experience of the Holocaust. Her story provides unique insight on the Holocaust outside of concentration camps, dispels myths, and captivates the emotional aura of living during the Holocaust. Hannah’s story is one of resistance, danger, and the importance of family.

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 was a good story teller and told stories to her friends. They were always interested in the stories which took their minds off what they were doing. Hannah told some of these stories in the camp, took people's mind off the terror they were in.

One of Hannah Senesh's greatest influences was aquired when she was arrested and tortured on march 14th, 1994. Hannah and some of her colleagues parachuted into Yugoslavia and joined a partisan group, after they landed they found out that the Germans had already occupied Hungary. The men that were with her decided that it was too dangerous to continue but Hannah continued on to the Hungarian border. At the border, she and the people that stayed with her were arrested by the German military. Hannah was taken to a prison and was brutally beaten for three days, then she was transfered to a prison in budapest where she was interrogated and beaten. Hannah stayed in a cell until she was executed by a German firing squad on November 7th, 1994. The

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

Yolen states, “A few miles farther on, Aaron begged, ‘Tell me a story, Hannah, please. Please. Please.’” (6) To put Yolen’s sentence in other words, when Hannah and Aaron were in the carm Aaron, being nervous, caused him to look for a distraction which were at this time, Hanna’s stories. From there he was able to beg her to actually tell him one in order to calm himself down.

Chapter 37- Hannah asks Will resides to ask him to ride to Salem to warn the Patriots of a British attack. Hannah decides to make the ride herself. Will and Mr. Hubbard helped her along the route and directions.

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.

At this point in the novel, Kit is at Hannah’s house with Prudence, peacefully sitting next to the fireplace and teaching Prudence how to write. Kit had come to Hannah’s house because she was coming to give Hannah a piece of cloth, and to explain what had happened to Nat because of his prank on William Ashby.

The speaker is Clay Jensen which he says this because he didn’t know Hannah through and through, just the parts he witnessed with the rumors around him, but the tapes helped him understand her from the past few months. This passage is important because it shows that Clay is starting to understand Hannah and how the stories on the tapes affected her. Because of that reason, also, I genuinely enjoyed how he says he feels he knows the Hannah from the past few months plus he’s beginning to understand her, I chose this passage.

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.

Characters: In “Thirteen Reason Why,” there are two main characters, Clay, and Hannah. Clay is developed as this ordinary student in high school, and get these videos about Hannah Baker. Hannah Baker is the girl who killed herself, and explains all her feelings about others, and tells what she hears from others.They both interact by,Hannah giving her point of view about the others person, and Clay listens to everything she says, and thinks about the others. In this quote it

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