Who Is The Protagonist In Thirteen Reasons Why

After being diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob, the protagonist Cameron Smith begins to become jealous of those around him, who get to continue living and experiencing moments that he will never get to. While in the hospital, his sister’s boyfriend Chet comes to apologize. While apologizing, Cameron thinks to himself, “I should let him off the hook, tell him not to sweat it, but I can’t help it. I really hate that Chet King gets to keep living and I don’t” (Smith 88-89). Cameron becomes bitter and jealous of Chet, and his beliefs. He feels that it is unfair that a

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.

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.

past where she experienced the horrific event. Hannah gets taken back in time and is

When Laurel begins her first year at West Mesa High school, she thinks it will be a fresh start; away from the pity, the laconic yet amiss attempts to console her, the hushed whispers, etcetera. Even though West Mesa is a sojourn from her old life, she is practically bereft of true happiness. Despite this, Laurel manages to make some friends: Hannah, Natalie, Patrick, and Kristen, and she discovers her crush/future boyfriend, Sky. She lives in alternate homes: one week with her divorced father, another with her Jesus-loving Aunt Amy. Laurel's mother is out of the picture- she ran off to California. But no matter how much she tries to live a carefree life, the truth is inescapable: her older sister, May, is dead. In Laurel's eyes, May was

Asher based this entire novel on his life; How he was affected by bullying and how he viewed teenagers interacting with each other. Initially, Jay talks about how each character in the book is somewhat relatable to him as he was growing up, but he identified that he felt the most connected with the character Clay (Diaz). Jay describes Clay as “non-confrontational,” an attribute he himself displayed in high school, which he says “can be good, but can also be a weakness” (Diaz). Not only was Jay able to align himself with Clay, he also found that he could join with Hannah’s character traits as well. Jay describes Hannah as, “a romantic in how she sees the world, which makes it even more crushing when the world doesn’t unfold how you think it

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.

background on his family, like the fact that his grandparents emigrated from Afghanistan. We learn that his grandparents escaped war in Afghanistan to come to the United States. His grandparents had hopes of a better life for their children and future grandchildren. Readers also learn about the holidays and practices his family takes part in like Ramadan. We also get to learn about Jay, who is white, Catholic, middle class, and lives with his parents. The most interesting part about Jay is we get to watch as he tries to assimilate into the school as a new student. Readers also watch as Jay has to make sense of the discrimination he sees and hears. For example, when Azeem is arrested, Jay has a difficult time believing what the news has to say about Azeem being a home grown terrorist. When he discusses the event with his mother, he explains to her, “I

Caitlin wakes up to a sweet 16 birthday surprise of her sister Cassandra having left home to be with her boyfriend in New York. Caitlin’s determined parents are in search for their daughter Cass and seem to have pushed Caitlin aside. Caitlin tries to deal with her sister leaving home and joins the cheer squad at school and meets what we know as a “bad boy” named Rogerson. Rogerson is caught up in drugs and comes from an abusive family. Caitlin and Rogerson are caught up in a little romance due to her knowing his secret and spending a lot of time with one another. Caitlin is now living her social life as a rebellious teenager and gets caught up in smoking marijuana and is being abused by Rogerson who has pressured Caitlin into having a sexual

Hannah ran to the car as soon as she heard the news. Hannah books it home . When she arrives close to home there is very bad traffic because there was a wreck. Even though somebody might have been injured she didn't care , because she was fuming . When she gets there it WILL be interesting

Rachel wanted to relocate out of Queens, because she couldn't keep her house any longer. The kids started fighting with one another whether or not they should stay. A few months in Delaware and a group of police officers stopped them after making an illegal u-turn. After the situation the mother despised Delaware. However, she stayed because she could not afford any other house. James started getting more serious with his studies. Furthermore, he joined the school band and was positive that he aspire to become a musician. As time passed, he was accepted to a university. The day he was departing to university, his mother dropped him off at the bus station. Looking out the window, he remembers seeing his mother break down into

At the beginning of the story, Clay does not notice how easily the small things can turn someone’s world upside down. He realizes it was a snowball effect of small things that led to one monumental event, Hannah’s suicide. He does not think twice about the rumors or the gossip. Clay is too blindsided by innumerable rumors floating around about Hannah to get to know her. He doesn’t consider the anguish and heartache Hannah might feel from these false accusations. At the end of the story, Clay realizes they were never true, but it is far too late to get to know his crush, Hannah, now. Later, Clay Jensen is more aware of the effects of his action, however miniscule they might be.

The impact on one person can turn into a circle of impact, changing everyone's view of life around a person. In Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher the content in the book proves how impactful one person can be. Hannah who reveals her struggles though tapes shows how impactful her story is to clay who struggles with the realization that he is one of the reasons for her death. When Clay find the tapes Hannah starts by warning clay how he will learn things about her that he may not want to know as “ [she] hope[s] [he is] ready, because [she is] about to tell [him] the story of [her] life.” As Clay learns more he becomes conflicted as he wanted to know her, he wanted to help her through what was occurring in her life. Consequently the impact

The book that I’m reading is called Thirteen Reasons Why. The book is about a girl named Hannah Baker who made 13 tapes telling her friends why she killed herself. Her “friends” were the 13 reasons. I watched the Netflix series on it first and then everyone said that the book was better so then I started to read the book too, so i already know what happens and how it ends. Hannah makes two sets of the cassette tapes. There are very specific rules for what you're supposed to do. You have to listen to all 13 tapes and then pass them onto the next person on the list. She very clearly said that if the tapes did not get passed around to all the people on the list then the person with the second set of tapes (Tony) would release the tapes in a very

Characters: In “Thirteen Reason Why,” there are two main characters, Clay, and Hannah. Clay is developed as this ordinary student in high school, and get these videos about Hannah Baker. Hannah Baker is the girl who killed herself, and explains all her feelings about others, and tells what she hears from others.They both interact by,Hannah giving her point of view about the others person, and Clay listens to everything she says, and thinks about the others. In this quote it