“13 Reasons Why” is an excellent novel about a teenage boy who is reunited with his deceased classmate through a series of thirteen audio tapes. On these tapes are the reasons to why she committed suicide. This book reveals the mysteries through stories and still manages to keep the reader interested.
Clay Jensen is struggling to get through his life normally after his high school crush commits suicide. Nobody has any idea why. At least not anybody who listened to the tapes. Hannah Baker has thirteen reasons for her death, and they all go to her school. In a desperate attempt to persuade the people in her life to listen to her, she sends out thirteen tapes, all explaining why these certain people aided her death.
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He followed her. Not in a physical sense, but rather he followed her voice. Visited the places she visited. Saw the sights she saw. Felt the feelings she felt. All of this felt real to Clay, the party where she discovered she was being used, the jungle gym where she had her first kiss, stalking her peeping tom, the depression and emptiness. Clay doesn’t know when he is on the tapes, or why but he continues to listen to them anyways, as if Hannah would know if he stopped. Then again she would know, Hannah mention in her second tape of how there is a second set of tapes that will be released publicly if the tapes are not listened to and passed on, she says she has people watching to make sure her deed is done. This thought turns Clay’s stomach. But he goes on with the sickening tapes anyways. He doesn’t want to know why Hannah killed herself, he doesn’t want to be reminded that she’s gone, and that he was apart of it. A part of Clay resents Hannah for ending her life like this, but he sympathizes with her after learning her hardships. During the sixth cassette Hannah describes how she is going to kill herself. She uses such great detail it causes Clay to
Clay Jensen is struggling to get through his life normally after his high school crush commits suicide. Nobody has any idea why. At least not anybody who listened to the tapes. Hannah Baker has thirteen reasons for her death, and they all go to her school. In a desperate attempt to persuade the people in her life to listen to her, she sends out thirteen tapes, all explaining why these certain people aided her death.
There are only two rules …show more content…
He followed her. Not in a physical sense, but rather he followed her voice. Visited the places she visited. Saw the sights she saw. Felt the feelings she felt. All of this felt real to Clay, the party where she discovered she was being used, the jungle gym where she had her first kiss, stalking her peeping tom, the depression and emptiness. Clay doesn’t know when he is on the tapes, or why but he continues to listen to them anyways, as if Hannah would know if he stopped. Then again she would know, Hannah mention in her second tape of how there is a second set of tapes that will be released publicly if the tapes are not listened to and passed on, she says she has people watching to make sure her deed is done. This thought turns Clay’s stomach. But he goes on with the sickening tapes anyways. He doesn’t want to know why Hannah killed herself, he doesn’t want to be reminded that she’s gone, and that he was apart of it. A part of Clay resents Hannah for ending her life like this, but he sympathizes with her after learning her hardships. During the sixth cassette Hannah describes how she is going to kill herself. She uses such great detail it causes Clay to