Causes Of Suicide In Jay Asher's Book 13 Reasons Why

“I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they’d heard. And more than that, I wanted them to know me. Not the stuff they thought they knew about me. No the real me. I wanted them to get past the rumors” - Hannah Baker. Hannah Baker, a teenage student struggling to overcome bullying. In Jay Asher's book 13 Reasons Why, she tells her story through tapes that she recorded before she committed suicide. In these tapes, Hannah reveals all the betrayal and ignorance of her peers that make her think suicide was her only option. The three major causes that lead to Hannah’s death are the following: her unfortunate situation in peer communications class, the stop sign incident which results in the death of a student, and the apathy of Mr. Porter when she reached out to him for help. These events left Hannah hopeless and no one even noticed. The apathy shown by Hannah’s peers is what contributed to her decision to end her life. Peer …show more content…
Porter. Mr. Porter is Hannah’s guidance counselor. She tells Mr. Porter how she is going to end her life, but she doesn’t want to; he doesn’t believe her. Hannah explains her life at school to Mr. Porter; how she feels like people keep hurting her and how many rumors are spread about her. Still, Mr. Porter has no interest in helping Hannah and suggest that she just moves beyond this. This was all Hannah needed; the final proof that nobody cares enough to try and save her, so she is going to save herself by ending it all. Hannah’s peers made no effort to help her and this apathy is what drove her to end her life. Due to her unfortunate situation in peer communications class, the stop sign incident, Hannah realized that she had failed to help those people. Her failure to help these people is what made her realize that no one could help her. If they did try to help her, they would fail like she failed and how Mr. Porter failed