‘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
Although this show has gotten some major hate recently for glorifying suicide and such, but we think it’s important that we educate ourselves on how suicide truly does affect us. This show truly tugs at our heart strings with the amount of pure torture these characters insue. ‘13 Reasons Why’ will have you in tears the whole while, if you want to be sad you have to watch it.
The show is a fictional drama based off of a book, but it covers the serious controversial issues with Suicide. Thoroughly going in depth through 13 different tapes leading up to the main character, Hannah Baker, committing suicide in the end. The way the 13 tapes approach her suicide and the reasoning behind it all is almost the same way someone would have written a suicide note or letter. Altogether 13 Reasons Why got completely blown up because our society did not know to handle the sensitive subject matter of suicide. While many people were agitated with the touching approach taken towards suicide in the television series 13 Reasons Why we need to realize statistical aspects of the issue. In fact, “Suicide was the tenth leading cause of death for all ages in 2013” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2015). Yet the topic of suicide in our society is unfortunately not discussed a lot in schools, media, or better yet even sensationalized publically. The series 13 Reason Why really hits the nail on the head on the impact of events aim to someone committing suicide. Also, the way the show turns thirteen tapes into blaming thirteen different individuals recorded by Hannah Bakers before committing suicide is the odd part about this all. As a society, this is just an issue that we have a difficulty comprehending. Furthermore, the way sociology looks towards acts of
Once Clark gave a good advice “The person who completes suicide, dies once. Those left behind die a thousand deaths, trying to relive those terrible moments and understand … Why?” Although the person who commits suicide only dies once, but everyone will be affected by their deaths this means that the act of suicide can cause a ripple effect, dispersing pain and grief among the survivors. Every day, thousands of teens attempt suicide in the U.S. — the most extreme outcome for the millions of children in this country who struggle with mental health issues. In March 2017 Netflix released a show based on a novel by Jay Asher called ‘’Thirteen Reasons Why’ ’The 13-episode drama, co-produced by actress and pop star Selena Gomez, is based on Jay Asher’s young-adult bestseller about Hannah Baker, a high school student who kills herself and leaves behind audiotapes detailing the events that led to her death. In each tape, she essentially blames her death on the actions (or inaction) of a group of classmates and a faculty member.
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
as likely to die from suicide than a teenager growing up in 1960. One of the
The main character of the novel Thirteen Reasons Why, Hannah Baker, committed suicide because of thirteen “reasons” that she divulged in a set of audiotapes. These reasons were people who either bullied her in some cruel way, or just ignored the fact that Hannah needed help. Whatever their crime against Hannah, each of these people affected her identity. Most of them negatively, but not all.
Eighth reason is because of Ryan. Ryan was a guy in school who found lost items and put pictures of them through the halls to show people what other people lose. Hannah showed Ryan one of her poems and he had put it in his pictures around their school. One teacher in the school discussed what the poem was about and other people uttered discourteous comments on it. This made Hannah depressed and she started to despise everyone around
In the past decades Suicide was a taboo topic to talk about especially in a movie or show. In the last decade suicide has become a less taboo topic. Especially this year after the show “13 Reasons Why” was released. The show is about a girl named Hannah who committed suicide and left tapes for each person who had a hand to play in her suicide.
The exposition of this book is 13 reasons why Hannah Baker committed suicide. She leaves tapes behind for the people that have caused her to taker her life. Each side of the tape has a story on why a person has caused her to take her life. The rising action occurs when Clay revives a shoe box filled with tapes from Hannah Baker who committed suicide a couple weeks earlier. The tapes are sent to the people who gave Hannah a reason to kill herself. So Clay goes through the tapes trying to figure out why he belonged on one of these tapes. On his way through the tapes, he listens to other reasons why she killed herself. After he went through each tape, he saw those people differently.
In today’s society, suicide in teenagers and young adults have increased dramatically over the past decades. Those who have attempted or committed suicide have reported of having some kind of mental disorder and most are depressed. Jay Asher’s popular teen novel, 13 Reasons why, tells the story about a teenage girls struggles in school and life and why she decided to end her life. Shakespeare’s tragic play “Hamlet” tells the story of love, revenge and death.
Clay Jensen, a junior receives a box in the mail containing seven double-sided cassette tapes used by Hannah Baker, a girl who recently committed suicide at their high school. Each of the tapes contains the thirteen reasons as to why she killed herself and the people who are responsible for those reasons along with it. The tapes she made are a scavenger hunt leading to places that are significant to her story and passed on from person to person. Clay, the narrator of the story follows the tapes to the significant places that coincided with her death and realizes how Hannah was trying to show the people on the tapes the impact they made on her life resulting in her death. As Clay reaches the end of the tapes, he experiences firsthand Hannah’s
Jay Asher’s novel 13 Reasons Why follows the suicide of Hannah Baker and the events that lead her to her fate. The most influential characters of the novel all attend Liberty High School and all of them in their own ways, lead Hannah to her suicide. Clay Jensen is the main protagonist in the novel and the narrator. Throughout the book we follow his reactions of Hannah’s tapes and his interpretation of them. IN fact we follow Clay as desperately attempts to teach everyone included on the tapes the effect that their words and actions have on others. The twelve tapes follow the 12 most influential people that lead Hannah to her suicide. These tapes include, Jessica Davis and Alex Standall who are Hannah’s first friends at Liberty High. Justin
“I'm listening to someone give up. Someone I knew—someone I liked. I'm listening... but still, I'm too late.” Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher is a book that shows just how you can never tell what people are going through. In this book, there is a girl named Hannah, and Hannah gave these 13 tapes to thirteen different people. Another character, Clay, is telling the story from his perspective, listening to the tapes. The color blue is used a ton in the story, as a representation for depression.
Throughout the last ten days I have been busy reading Jay Asher’s Thirteen Reasons Why, and I have finished it on page 288. In Thirteen Reasons Why, Clay Jensen, the main character, came home from school one day to find a mysterious package on his front door step. When Clay opens the package he discovers seven cassette tapes. Clay puts the first tape in the old radio, he found in his dads garage, a voice comes on. He recognizes this voice; it belongs to Hannah Baker. Two weeks ago Hannah Baker killed herself. Hannah made these tapes out to certain people. Every tape is to a different person, people that had an impact on Hannah’s suicide. One by one Clay listens to the cassette tapes, until he gets to his. Hannah tells him that he was like
Telling someone that they are fat does not make you any skinnier calling someone dumb or stupid won’t make you any smarter and saying someone should die doesn’t make you any better than them. Teens cut themselves and hurt themselves because of being bullied and most end up killing themselves because of the words others say. Most kids and teens feel defenceless when they are being verbally or physically bullied.