Suicide In Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why

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

To begin with, suicide is an appropriate topic to discuss in Grade 9 classes, as students are mature enough to handle a subject like this Confabulating about suicide builds awareness within students of the events that are taking place which can affect themselves and the others around them. The novel 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher, follow the journey of a 17-year-old female-Hannah Baker- that commits suicide, and has left 13 tapes why she made the choice. This TV show is a common series that teenagers are watching; they are exposed to the topic of suicide. The television series shows scenes where Hannah felt that she was used and hurt by her peers, which then compels her to take her life. Hannah dealt with gossiping, rumors, bullying and harassment at school, which made her believe that she was useless and judged outside of school as well. Therefore, in the end, she

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 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 idea of a teenager ending her life because of the people surrounding her is not uncommon today. I, myself, have had friends that have almost ended their own lives because of how a boy treated them or gossip surrounding them. Jay Asher illustrates the brutality and ugliness of these situations in such an honest way that I felt like Clay hearing these words that change his life. The book didn’t have a happy ending either—Hannah didn’t come back and Clay was left to deal with the mess that lay in her path. Sometimes stories find a way for there to be a happy resolution, but for Thirteen Reasons Why to be an authentic story it couldn’t have ended happily. Suicide, and specifically suicide in teenagers, is a real problem that needs to be acknowledged and prevented. Every story has many sides and you can never know what a person is truly going

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.

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,

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.

Suicide is the leading cause of death for people ages 10-24. More teenagers and young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease, combined. Phoebe Prince and Hannah Baker are both apart of those devastating statistics. Hannah Baker is a character in Jay Asher’s book Thirteen Reasons Why whereas, Phoebe Prince is a girl from South Hadley, Massachusetts. These two girls’ stories are very much alike, but there are also very different.

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.

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

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.

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

'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