Essay On Thirteen Reasons Why

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The book “Thirteen Reasons Why” by Jay Asher is a young adult fiction book that is one of Jay Asher’s famous books, because it is the #1 New York Times and International Bestseller. It is amazing. This book has lots of suspense and excitement that will have you wondering what will happen next every second throughout the book. Not only the author of “Thirteen Reasons Why”, buy also the books “What Light” and the partnership work novel “Piper” with Jessica Freeburg.

The narrator Clay Jensen, starts to talk about how he finds, tapes from a girl named Hannah Baker explaining why she had killed herself in the beginning. He does not want to be included or involved with anything that has to do with these tapes, but he also wants to know why he is on these tapes and what he did to her, that made her kill herself. He had never thought of Hannah as a close friend; maybe just a co-worker at the movie theaters where Hannah and Clay had first met.

During this time Clay was very confused. Hannah had never gave Clay a sign or clues that she was going to do this to herself. No one would have suspected a thing until the
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This book explains a very good lesson to readers, and that is words are very powerful and can have a long lasting impact on people. Almost all of the characters had received and had said something hurtful to someone and did not even notice it or thought twice before saying something. “Thirteen Reasons Why” could teach you many things; “You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person's life, you're not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can't be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person's life, you're messing with their entire life. Everything… affects everything” That is why “Thirteen Reasons Why” by Jay Asher is

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