Identity In Thirteen Reasons Why

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.

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

Hannah remains a wonderful role model to her peers in all of her work ethic, kindheartedness, and her spiritual life. No one would be able to find one cruel bone in her body. Passionate about everything she does, she never gives up on anything. She is not swayed by the majority; she finds joy in being her own person. The following quote perfectly sums up Hannah’s outlook on life. “Do not compare yourself with others. It is our uniqueness that makes us who we are.” - Tina J.

I believe that Hanna Baker was powerless because the last couple of months while she was still alive she had no one to count on anymore. No one, not one person. Not even her parents and that is just completely heartbreaking. All she wanted was someone to pay attention to her, to actually care for her but nobody cared. All they cared for was themselves no one else and that is just selfish. All the thirteen reasons, all those people were the reasons. Hannah choose to do those cassettes to let them know why and be reasonable for it. Hannah left a note in Mrs. Bradley bag to talk about a topic. “Suicide. It’s something I’ve been thinking about” (Asher 170). One of her classmate says it’s because she wanted “attention” and didn’t wrote her name

Hannah felt like she had no one to turn to during her most vulnerable moments. Hannah encountered being known as the school slut after being lied on by a popular football player and several other students; including a lesbian student. She lost her two best friends. She made a new friend who betrayed her by leaking her most intimate poem in the school newspaper; further confirming her peers’ thoughts that she was a slut. To add insult to injury Hannah was raped by a popular football player, and no one believed her. Which ultimately led to Hannah becoming depressed, and she describes herself as a broken soul. Hannah realizes she needs to attempt to get real help, at least once. Hannah goes to the school guidance counselor and confides in the counselor that she has been raped. The counselor tells Hannah if she does not give up her rapist name, she needs to just “move on”. Hannah immediately left his office and went home and killed

Hannah was the most popular girl in school, every girl wanted to be her and every guy wanted to be with her. Besides her being wealthy and that she was

Because it's not my fault that Hannah doesnt say anything to you or talks to you as much as you like. You cant blame ME for that problem. I cant do anything about how Hannah acts, if

When she found out he cheated on her it broke her heart. She did not attend school for several days because she was miserable and could not deal with the breakup. Hannah thought people would think of her as disgusting, worthless, stupid, and ugly. It illustrates the idea of imaginary audience. Adolescents think that all eyes are on them and that everyone is interested in what they do.

Self advocacy is an important skills that Hannah should continue to improve on. This is a skills that she will use for the rest of her life.

Hannah from “The Perfects’” struggles to face her demons. To begin, as the new girl in town she is curious about the neighbors. When

Hanna’s illiteracy withdrew her from integrating within society and kept it a big secret to not be ridiculed. She could not be herself in many situations which, again, distanced herself from society. Michael and her even got in an unnecessary argument because she misinterpreted the meaning of the note Michael gave her as he didn’t know she was illiterate. Furthermore, her relationship with Michael also did not seem to bother her very much. As the older one in the relationship, it should have been Hanna’s responsibility to not allow it. However, Hanna did not seem to care and shows her negligence towards traditional social morals. By her killing herself at the end, it sort of represented her cutting herself off from the world. Once her secret was revealed and she finally learned how to write, it included her within a part of society which she no longer wanted to be part of and killing herself ridded her of

The word negativity is significant to the novel as Hannah was always surrounded by negatively and she didn’t have any positivity in her life. Hannah did have positivity but was that positivity was always taken away from her, by Zach Dempsey. The negativity was like a snowballing effect as it adds on and on creating a bigger situation. Rumours and jokes were told about Hannah and she couldn’t stop them as everyone was so negative towards her. Alex Standall made a list of “Who’s hot and who’s not” in their English Class with Mr.Potter and added Hannah as “best ass in freshman year”.

Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same(Cassette 4 side A, pg.156)”.This quote shows she has been bullied by most of the people on the tapes except Clay, he did not do anything really wrong.Bullying was what really drove her to the edge of her life.The book has addressed problems like these and has created a great movement called the 13 RW Project.People have talked about how this saved people from committing suicide themselves.For example, "This book changed the way I look at the world... at the people around me. It was drastically life-changing, especially since I can relate to Hannah’s emotions. I will always love this book. It teaches the reader to be careful about what they do and how they act. It can also help those in a similar situation, or those who know someone suffering. Definitely worth reading." —Maya Dom(http://thirteenreasonswhy.com/index.html).However, how has other books created great movements like Thirteen Reasons

Hannah experienced various forms of bullying throughout the novel. Some were miniscule acts of cruelty, primarily meant

They never get the chance to actually get to know a person or understand them. They never reach out to that person or get to know what is happening in their life. This series does a good job of showing how fast one little lie can change the reputation of a person. This series not only shows one issue, but it has multiple issues that people go through on a daily basis. It mainly focuses on bullying, rape, and suicide. This series is bringing awareness and letting people know that there is help. It shows people that they are worthy and valued in life and shouldn 't feel any other way. The intended audience for this series are teenagers. This series is showing teens to not keep everything bottled in. To let someone know what is happening. In the series the more Hannah kept everything to herself the more she fell into a depression. Everything that happened to her seemed magnified. For example, on the seventh episode, “Tape 4, Side A” one of Hannah’s classmates, Zach, emptied her bag of compliments that each student had in a Communications class. Even though this doesn’t seem like a huge deal, to her it was. She needed those compliments because she was already falling into a depression.