The book, Thirteen Reasons Why, has gained a lot of publicity ever since the release of the show on Netflix. Thirteen Reasons Why follows the aftermath of Hannah Baker’s tragic suicide. Clay Jenson receive tapes that Hannah preplanned to discuss her reason for killing herself. There are 13 reasons why she killed herself from people’s impact. The themes included love, rape, suicide, and friendships. The primary character, Clay, unluckily must listen to all the tapes to find out the cause of Hannah’s death and if he was one of the reasons.
Thirteen Reasons Why was one the hardest series I watched. When I was in high school, I read the novel and found myself to detest Hannah Baker. Hannah tries hard to be liked by people but manages to kill
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These include Carl Jung, Erik Erikson, and Karen Horney’s theories. Freud’s theories were frameworks that help develop new theories and concepts.
Carl Jung was not exactly friendly with Freud which resulted from exiting the psychoanalytic branch. Jung was brilliant by using new terminology and concepts that were not thought of at the time. His theories included the collective unconscious and archetypes. The collective unconscious looks. The archetypes consist of terms such as anima, animus, and shadow coming from mythology.
Erik Erickson had an amazing concept of personality development throughout the life cycle. Unlike, Freud focused on children's’ stages rather than throughout lifetime. Erickson life cycles included: trust vs mistrust, autonomy vs shame and doubt, initiative vs guilt, industry vs inferiority, identity vs confusion, intimacy vs isolation, generativity vs stagnation and lastly, ego integrity vs despair. Erickson has gone through more in-depth about these subjects and explained the stages for each of them being an important
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She was trying her best to avoid anxiety by wanting to be in a relationship with people. She was craving the attention of someone she liked but got used to her advantage. This occurred throughout her relationship with people. She wanted the support of people, but she did not have it. Her friends left her, guys would not approach her, and peers believed the rumors about her. She got to the point of saying, “You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything”. This demonstrates the hardship she was feeling of people moving away from her. She was trying her best to move towards people yet each time they were not trying to develop that connection. Towards the end of the series, Hannah was still trying to move towards to people with the counselor being her last help. But, the counselor only pushed her away. Hannah then moves away from people because she managed to think nobody wanted to deal with her anymore. A new mechanism for her to have control with the people that failed
She saw how all of her decisions and experiences had been grooming her to be Zoe’s mother and to teach Zoe how to be a confident and self-accepting of who
I think the reason Hannah start to kill herself was because of these three people.these three made her feel really bad or did something bad that Hannah did not like or many more.
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.
She explained it saying, “the main problem in life was not to make people happy but to discover the reason for their existence” (p. 7). That ties into her argument of having a responsibility to help others and
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,
A single word can hold much power. It can lead to death. It can break one’s heart. One word that comes out of your mouth may affect a person so much. Thirteen Reasons Why is a story that teaches a valuable lesson that is true for even a modern teen: a single word you say can cause a person’s life to end.
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.
As the girl continues on to grow up she is continually facing challenges with her confidence and thus affecting her emotionally and physically. For instance, one of the line states that “ she went to
An empty desk, an empty locker, an empty bedroom, and childless parents. Why would Hannah Baker take her own life? In 13 Reasons Why, by Jay Asher, a box of seven tapes was delivered to Clay Jensen’s house with the answers to that question. Thirteen recordings, one for each person’s story, including Clay’s. These thirteen individuals are those who she blames for making her life miserable and, in her opinion, not worth living. Throughout the novel, the reader uncovers the mystery of who Hannah Baker truly was. Although most view Hannah as the victim, she is actually the villain.
The series portrays Hannah’s life leading up to her suicide, the contence includes bullying, rape, drugs
cope with the events in her life because she was so adapted to being told how to think and
Take a minute to think about something that gets your attention by how it talks about things you don’t see or can do in the real world but still be relevant. The book 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher is a good example of what I’m talking about because it brings in how teen suicide is real, but also how high school students in books don't act the same in real life. The book 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher is a good example of what I’m talking about because it brings in how teen suicide is real, but also how high school students in books don't act the same in real life. Teen suicide is real and so are rumors, but in 13 Reasons Why it takes to another level in high school compared to how some people might see it and how it all really happens. Teen suicide should be talked about in all forms of literature, but how it's brought up in this case is kind of extreme, yet can change how readers see and act towards others with what happened. Fictional books aren't a waste of time and can be pretty useful more than some people might think, however it depends on how
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
Thirteen Reasons Why is a Netflix (1) series that has gone viral (2) on the internet since the 30th of March, 2017. The series discusses issues of bullying, suicide, and other social problems in school life. Thirteen Reasons Why’s story circles around a teenage boy named Clay who get 13 cassettes (3) in the mail one day. These tapes were recorded by a students with him in school who has committed sucide a few weeks ago. In these tapes Hannah -the students who killed herself- lists the thirteen reason of why she had killed herself.
I have two questions since the beginning of this book. First, why would Hannah send out these suicide tapes to only certain people? I have drawn three main reasons why. Hannah probably did this to let these people know why she killed herself. She was really hurt and she wanted pitty.