There is nothing in this world like feeling like you do not belong, not even in your own body. Women and men alike face some sort of harassment at some point in their lives, but it’s more likely to be a female who faces it every day as she grows up. In the show 13 Reasons Why, Hannah Baker is faced with every problem teenage girls encounter, but it becomes so unbearable that she ends up taking her own life. Many people, particularly women, including myself, have been confronted with either sexual harassment, bullying, stalking, heartbreak, and rape. Hannah came to Liberty High School as a new student and quickly made friends, who eventually all left her or hurt her in some way. The students in the show are overall normal kids, categorized
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This includes when the boy, Tyler, catches Hannah kissing the most popular and preppiest girl in school, Courtney, who refuses to come out of the closet. No one can tell the two girls are Hannah and Courtney in the picture, but Courtney still detaches herself from Hannah. When confronted with the picture, Courtney claims it’s Hannah and a well-known lesbian girl, deeming Hannah as not only a slut but a “crazy lesbian.” Another popular, preppy kid, Marcus, hears about Hannah’s reputation and asks her out for a Valentine’s Day date, but only to try to sleep with her, for lack of a better phrase. When Hannah pushes Marcus away, his friend, a sweet, idiot jock, Zach, comes to the rescue; unfortunately, Hannah is so mad that Marcus used her that she pushes Zach away and he ends up taking away the one highlight of her day, the anonymous compliment notes. Hannah then writes a short note to her teacher, anonymously, describing her pain and Zach, realizing that the note was written by Hannah, does nothing. As the year is almost over, Hannah goes to a college fair and meets a librarian who invites her to share her poetry with a group. There, the “arrogant asshole” of the school, Ryan, an openly gay school magazine editor, encourages Hannah to share a vulnerable piece. He ends up stealing the poem from her and publishes it anonymously. Though the piece is vulnerable, kids take it the wrong way, since Hannah describes feeling naked, with “miles and miles of
This includes when the boy, Tyler, catches Hannah kissing the most popular and preppiest girl in school, Courtney, who refuses to come out of the closet. No one can tell the two girls are Hannah and Courtney in the picture, but Courtney still detaches herself from Hannah. When confronted with the picture, Courtney claims it’s Hannah and a well-known lesbian girl, deeming Hannah as not only a slut but a “crazy lesbian.” Another popular, preppy kid, Marcus, hears about Hannah’s reputation and asks her out for a Valentine’s Day date, but only to try to sleep with her, for lack of a better phrase. When Hannah pushes Marcus away, his friend, a sweet, idiot jock, Zach, comes to the rescue; unfortunately, Hannah is so mad that Marcus used her that she pushes Zach away and he ends up taking away the one highlight of her day, the anonymous compliment notes. Hannah then writes a short note to her teacher, anonymously, describing her pain and Zach, realizing that the note was written by Hannah, does nothing. As the year is almost over, Hannah goes to a college fair and meets a librarian who invites her to share her poetry with a group. There, the “arrogant asshole” of the school, Ryan, an openly gay school magazine editor, encourages Hannah to share a vulnerable piece. He ends up stealing the poem from her and publishes it anonymously. Though the piece is vulnerable, kids take it the wrong way, since Hannah describes feeling naked, with “miles and miles of