Death is something one cannot escape, whether it be natural or self inflicted death is inevitable. Suicide is the second leading causes of death for ages 10-24. Young adults are faced with challenges that become too much to bare; they begin to feel as if there is no other option but suicide. In today's society, young adults lack the knowledge and experience to deal with difficult circumstances that will later lead to severe consequences. When children are not informed through; involvement, witnessing it, seeing it in movies or in this instance even reading about it, they don't know what to do when it happens to them. When children have this resource taken away or banned from schools they won't fully know how real these events are. In Jay Asher's novel, Thirteen Reasons Why, these harsh circumstances are so pertinent in high schoolers lives that banning this book deprives students of the vital lessons they may need to face reality. The First Amendment gives authors and everyone else this right to freedom of speech. This amendment protects and allows people to freely express themselves, "First amendment reveals that the US protects several basic liberties- freedom of speech, …show more content…
This book is based on the hard life of one highschool girl and how the actions of her classmates negatively affected her life. These people pushed Hannah to do what no one should ever feel is the answer, "I hope you're ready because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why"(Asher 7). This book goes in depth of how hard life can be for some highschool students. Thirteen Reasons Why, was banned for many reasons, however one of the main reasons is the topic of suicide
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,
The First Amendment promises that the government cannot take away our freedoms including speech, press, assembly, and religion. One tremendous part of this amendment is free expression. Free expression is important because of how necessary it is for our representative government, it encourages individual growth, helps advance knowledge, and it is key to bringing about social change, thus protecting individual rights.
The First Amendment allows people to voice their opinions without repercussions. “Congress will make no law abridging the freedom of speech,” (First Amendment Rights). It allows people to talk freely among themselves, with a group of friends, or for the world to hear. One great example is Martin Luther King
The First Amendment of the United States of America is there to ensure the rights of its citizens. There are five parts to this amendment: the freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of petition, freedom of the press, and the freedom of religion. This ensures the right to speak and display our human beliefs. Though in our history people have been shown to suppress these human rights from others and it is completely despicable. The freedom of speech is one that seems to be drowned out in our society.
Thirteen Reasons Why is a novel about a girl named Hannah Backer who committed suicide because of how people in her school treated her. The night before her death, she recorded seven cassettes with two sides each explaining why the thirteen people on the list gave her a reason to kill herself. The story focuses on Clay, the person who is listening to the tapes, who is in denial of the fact that he did something that gave Hannah a reason to committing. Fortunately, it turns out that Clay didn't do anything that led to Hannah's death which made him relieved.
The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the right to freedom of expression from government interference. Freedom of expression consists of the rights to freedom of speech, press, assembly, the right to make a
The First Amendment in its simplest form is a way to protect the citizens from censorship by the government. But there are some caveats. Not all speech is
The United States Constitution to the First Amendment protects the right to freedom of religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition. The First Amendment guarantees the freedom of expression which prohibits the congress to restrict the press to speak what they like or dislike to public. Freedom of speech allows the individual to express themselves as they please without the government getting involved. The only clause as to the government can get involved is if they provide substantial justification for interfering in the right of freedom of speech if peace or causes
Suicide, a big concern in today’s society. It is everywhere and happening every second, but no ordinary person ever thinks of these situations on a daily basis. But one man, Jay Asher, stepped in and decided to write about suicide in a more entertaining and relatable form. Thirteen Reasons Why, written by Jay Asher, is a novel about a teenager that leaves tapes behind with recordings of her own voice that explains why she took her own life. Jay Asher dropped out of college to pursue a writing career, he had a total of eleven manuscripts submitted to publishers which ended up all being rejected. He soon worked as an assistant children’s librarian and as a bookseller, he got inspired to write Thirteen Reasons Why from a lot of young adult
I have mixed feelings about Thirteen Reasons Why, overall it's a great book, but at times I felt that it encouraged suicide to someone who might be thinking about it. The style of this book is neatly put together, having Hannah narrate the tapes, it feels as if you are listening to them and her voice is just talking in the back of your mind while you try to take on the mystery of these people and what they have done to her.However, I do believe that it’s an interesting narrative about suicide and how it impacts people and their differences. Even though I don't completely agree with the context of the book, it’s more it’s complexity, it makes you think deeper, it shows how one event can lead to another and end up taking someone's life. Hannah
The First Amendment states that “everybody has freedom of speech, press, and religion.” The First Amendment allows us, as U.S. citizens to speak freely about our feelings throughout the government. The First Amendment could possibly be the most important in the whole Bill of Rights. This amendment affects us in our daily life, whether we're teenagers or adults
Hannah Baker was a high school student who committed suicide; No one really expected it, no one noticed the thoughts of Hannah killing herself. The novel Thirteen Reasons Why begins as Clay Jensen sends a mysterious box to one of his classmates named Jenny. We learn that the box has an audiotape of Hannah Baker and the reasons why she committed suicide.
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher is a novel surrounding Clay Jensen and the late Hannah Baker. Hannah Baker had recently committed suicide and recorded her reasons for doing so on cassette tapes, then sent the tapes to the thirteen people she deems responsible, in some way, for her death. Clay Jensen receives the cassette tapes one morning and follows Hannah’s instructions. She directs him through the city as he listens to her retell the events that led up to her suicide. Asher’s novel has made me rethink the way I interact with my peers. I have learned how to detect subtle bullying and stick up for the person being bullied.
'Thirteen Reasons Why, ' is chalked full of controversial subject matter. This makes adults unreasonably uncomfortable. One of the particularly nasty topics, is suicide. This is the most abundant of controversial topics in this book, and it is a devastatingly common tragedy that happens every day. The author is oftentimes blunt about the subject, but gets his point across nonetheless. Suicide is something that crosses all of our minds at one time or another. This is demonstrated in the quote, '"Before the part, I 'd thought about giving up so many times. I don 't know, maybe some people are just preconditioned
Due to Censorship in books, movies, articles, and other forms of entertainment, from the bleeps covering curse words to the age ratings in movies, this has caused censorship to develop into an important topic of social critique for writers everywhere. In the beginning of April this year the novel and show Thirteen Reasons Why (written by Jay Asher) blew up and brought up a controversial debate around censorship. Many people who reviewed this complained that the plot was “glorifying” suicide causing teen suicide rates to increase (Tom Blunt). Due to this issue a library in Colorado went as far as to ban this book from the shelves in the wake of losing several students to suicide. In addition to schools demanding censorship even fellow supporters