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What Is Teenage Suicide In Thirteen Reasons Why

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‘Thirteen Reasons Why’ is about a teenage suicide. However, that is not the point he is trying to make in his novel. The entire book addresses bullying and what can be the outcome of it, which is suicide. However, in this case the one that was being bullied also bullied the people back. All thirteen people who were on Hannah’s tapes bullied her and she then made the decision to end her life. She then bullied them back by haunting them with the tapes she made. Along with bullying and teen suicide there were a few more allegories Jay Asher put into his novel. Hannah numbered each tape with blue nail polish. “And there in your eyes, what was it? Sadness? Pain? You moved around me and tried pushing your hair away from your face. Your fingernails

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