Who Is The Protagonist In Thirteen Reasons Why

Suzie, a seventeen-year-old student at Central High School in Bristol, Virginia, sent some photographs of herself to her, at the time, boyfriend Cyrus. After the relationship soured, Cyrus forwarded the most revealing pictures to his upperclassmen friends, who started to show unwanted attention to Suzie. Suzie’s parents then contacted the school’s principal, Mrs. Sheevers who then confronted Cyrus, who denied the allegations. The principal then searched Cyrus for his phone, but Cyrus did not have his phone on him at the time, so they checked his locker and found the phone. On the phone, they found evidence that Cyrus had indeed sent the photos to other boys. The principal then suspended Cyrus for two weeks. Cyrus then filed a lawsuit against both the school district and the principal on the grounds that both his First and Fourth Amendment rights had

In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda a young incoming freashman starts off high school depressed and avoided by her classmates and friends. Over the summer Melinda attends a party where she has no choice but to call the police, resulting in all her friends to dismiss and turn against her completely including her best friend Rachel. When Melinda begins high school detached from all of her classmates she tries to befriend Heather, a new student who is unaware of the party conflict. “...we kind of paired up at the beginging of the year when I was new and didnt know anyone and that was really sweet of you but I think its time for the both of us to admit that we...just...are...very...differnt” (105 Anderson) Heather soon realizes

Hannah has experiences in the story that change her. In chapter three, Hannah drank watered down wine for the first time. Hannah also got drunk. “ Uncle Sam poured another quarter glass of wine into her glass, then filled it the way with water for the next blessing.” this was on page 16. This experience is a huge role in the story because it causes her to fall asleep and have to crazy dream. Another quote is when Hannah says “I'm not Chaya.” On page 34, “I'm from New Rochelle. And I'm not Chaya, I'm Hannah’ When Shmuel’s eyebrows rose up and lines furrowed his brow, he looked so fierce Hannah moved back a step” Rivka explains to Hannah that she was sick and probably forgot. Hannah has many experiences in the story that change her.

There are seven tapes and each side of the tape is for a specific person who had a role in helping Hannah commit suicide. The first tape is addressed to Justin Foley who was Hannah’s first kiss. They had a sweet, innocent kiss, however, Justin decided to spread a rumor that much more happened, which lead Hannah to be called a “slut” for the rest of high school year.

In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino starts her freshman year of high school with a secret. At an end of summer party Melinda and her friends went to she ended up calling the cops, so now her old friends won’t talk to her, and people she doesn't know hate her from a distance. Melinda’s only friend is a new student, Heather who ends up trying to gain

Hannah’s First reason is because of a boy, named Justin. Justin became her boyfriend when she first moved to the town. They met up at a park and had their first kiss together and hung out for a while. Later though, Justin lied and said that she had let him. Since Justin spread this

Hannah is a lot like myself, and I believed nothing like this would ever happen to one of us. We were top tier athletes, students, and spent all our free time sleeping or eating rather than partying. I learned that it is never up to the victim and the strongest of people can be taken advantage of. Hannah was tricked into trying a drink that was drugged when no one was watching. Talking to the guy, trying to be nice because he was a friend of a friend. I had engaged in a fundamental attribution error by making judgements on similar situations without knowing all the details. Now, sexual assault victims look very different.

In the small town of Troy, Missouri, there is a high populated high school, Troy Buchanan. There’s a group of junior and senior boys and girls that are known to be “trouble-makers”, that look out to accuse others for their wrong doings. In many high schools around the United States, there is “junior/senior prank week”. This is the week when many teens go insane. The Benson family, a family of 5, has two kids still attending high school and are known to be a family of good well-beings. One of the two kids being Emiley, an innocent teen who wants what is right and looks out for her family.

Clover suffers restless days and sleepless nights harming herself because she can’t understand what's wrong with her infuriating life and goes to self-harm as a way to break free. Her bullies think that bullying Clover makes them feel superior, fearful, and higher class than the rest of the student population, so that they can exceed society’s requirements and be the highest class in all of population. This is an exceptional example point of how desperate people act just to be accepted into

One night, towards the end of November, three teenagers were out past their town 's curfew. The teenagers knew that if they were caught, they would be in more trouble than they had ever been in before. These three teenagers were the oddest group of friends, Ethan was the goody-two-shoes of the group- always following the rules, he was a skinny kid standing about six feet tall but there was not one ounce of muscle on his body; Jackson was the star of the lacrosse team- he never paid attention to what anyone told him, especially adults, he was only about 5’10”, but built of pure muscle; and then there was Brooke- she did not know much about anything and she did whatever her boyfriend Jackson told her to, she was blonde and strikingly

Actually, how we see ourselves does not come from who we really are, but rather from how we believe others see us.” This was true in Hannah’s case. Hannah’s low self-esteem was caused by her peers’ increasingly low opinion of her. She believed that her classmates saw her in a poor light, so she did as well. In the novel, Hannah said, “I have no excuse. I could have stopped it-end of story. But to stop it, I felt like I’d have to stop the entire world from spinning. Like things had been out of control for so long that whatever I did hardly mattered anymore”. She felt that her actions did not matter anymore because no one would see her differently at that point in time. Her reputation had been built up as someone who was “easy” and untrustworthy. Others’ perception of Hannah caused her to doubt and hate herself in the end. This caused severe changes in her self-identity.

Melinda was mentally pressured into doing it with Andy Evans (Halse). My friend was being pressured into kissing a boy who she didn’t even know at a school dance. She went to talk to the principal. The person that pressured into kissing the boy got suspended.Melinda handled her

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

Suicide is an obvious issue in the book, because it is what the book is based on. Hannah committed suicide because of the things she went through, and at the end of the book clay ends up recognizing signs thanks to Hannah’s tapes and helps his old from Skye who he sees as pushing away from others and becoming distant. In the book Hannah says. Hannah cautions those she has mentioned on the tapes to not underestimate the power and influence their words and actions may have on the lives of others. They may think their actions are secluded and not a big deal, but as Hannah reveals, everything is connected and carries power and in return can cause someone to hurt themselves or even cause them to take their own

A statistic connecting to this states that bully victims are between two to nine times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims, according to studies by Yale University. Phoebe’s tormenting became so bad that on January 14, 2010, she hung herself in her house’s stairwell. The people who had the evidence first would be her 12 year old sister who had come home from school separately, and unfortunately had to walk in the house to seeing her sister hanging dead. She was only 15. Her sister was scared when she just walked in. Although the Phoebe Prince case turned into a argument because, the “Mean Girls” said they did not do anything of the sort to Phoebe, which was really