What would happen
if you were a high school student and heard that a classmate had committed
suicide? Also, what if you have received cassette tapes by someone explaining
why you were a reason they had committed suicide?
Thirteen Reasons Why
written by Jay Asher, is a fictional story about a boy named Clay Jensen who
received cassette tapes and a map. On the tapes that were made by a classmate
of his, Hannah Baker, who committed suicide. Before Hannah died she sent out
thirteen cassette tapes but on those thirteen cassette tapes, Hannah Baker
explains about certain events that had occurred that led her to commit suicide.
Before Hannah passed away, she sent the tapes out to all the people whom she
blamed her decision to commit suicide.
Along with the cassette tapes, Hannah also sent out a map so people
would know which places she was referred to in her tapes.
When
Clay Jensen received the first set of the tapes and the map from someone, he
decided to travel around town, while listening to the tapes, visiting the
places that Hannah explained the events that occurred and how she felt when
they happened. During his little expedition, Clay constantly wondered about
three thoughts in his mind; first, he wondered what he had done to Hannah that
led her to commit suicide. Second, Clay was getting worried when Hannah was
explaining what other classmates had done to make her feel depressed. Third he
wondered when Hannah was going to mention him somewhere in the tapes on what he
had done that led her to be suicidal. At the end, Clay Jensen met someone who
he knows and received the second half of the tapes (there are thirteen tapes
that Hannah Baker had made). Oh the
irony!
I
enjoyed reading Thirteen Reasons Why because I think Jay Asher did a
great job writing the book with a lot of emotion between Hannah Baker and Clay
Jensen. For example, when Jay Asher was writing Hannah’s character, I could
tell that Hannah was a lonely person who wanted to be accepted in the high
school world. As for Clay Jensen, Asher wrote him as an average person in the
beginning of the book until he was traveling around town visiting the places
that Hannah Baker once visited while learning about the real person his
classmates were outside of school. In the end of the book, I think Clay Jensen
did become a totally different person based on what he learned hearing from
Hannah Baker
In concluding, I came across this book after I saw that this book is
going to be a mini TV series on Netflix and I thought it looked like an
interesting book to read. Finally, if you like stories that are sad but love
watching the story unfold before your eyes, I would recommend this book to you.
I promise you I tried to describe
this book the best that I could without giving anything away, so if you are
still confused to what I what I read, here is the link to the TV series trailer
for Netflix.
Trivia Questions:
1)
How did Hannah Baker commit suicide?
2)
What did Clay Jensen do to Hannah
Baker that she blamed him for to commit suicide?
3)
Who gave Clay Jensen the rest of the
cassette tapes?
Asher, Jay. 13 reasons why. New York: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2017. Print.
"13 Reasons Why (TV Series 2017– )." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 27 Mar. 2017.
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