13 Reasons Why By Hannah Carter

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“13 Reasons Why” is a 2007 young adult novel written by Jay Asher. This novel which is the number one New York Times and International Bestseller, “13 Reasons Why” is the story of a wonderful teenage girl named Hannah Baker. She took her life and made thirteen tapes. Those thirteen tapes have a person in specific in each one and tell why that person was being blamed for Hannah taking her life and each tapes details a reason why she killed herself. Clay Jensen, a shy high school student, returned home from school one day to find that he was received those thirteen tapes in a mysterious shoebox in the mail. It contains seven double-sided cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, a classmate who has recently committed suicide. Inside the shoebox …show more content…
Could you sense it?” to which Clay responses, “No. You hid it. You never told me what it was, Hannah.” These quotes illustrate that Clay had no idea of what Hannah had been dealt with her dramatic best friends in her new high school who abandoned her on her journey to suicide, Alex and Jessica, there is the girlfriend who slapped her and the guy who designed her as “Bad Ass” on a list, her foolish ex-boyfriend, Justin Foley, who is take for granted with his gang buddies, the guy who published her poetry without non-consent, the guy who raped her in a hot tub at his party when everyone had fell asleep or go home, also whom she has recently seen raping her best friended, only because she thought she could get away from her dramatic life to start her new life in this new school unfortunately, who knew that all these things tragically happened to Hannah. Moreover, the connection between Clay Jensen and Hannah Baker was a close friend and workmates and Clay had an infatuation with Hannah even so they both were a close friend Hannah never opened up to Clay about how her life had been with all of those people who took her for granted and participated in the act …show more content…
During I read the book, why would Hannah dated her best friend's ex-boyfriend when she told Hannah that he is not worth to date with? Innocently, the photo that was taken of Hannah by Justin, It was innocent but the unflattering photo out of context posted by a guy with a particular bad reputation or saying something spinning the story some kind

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