Thirteen Reasons Why: A Coming Of Age Story

Thirteen Reasons Why is a coming of age story. Its overall social strength hits home for young – adult’s. Many of the sensitive social issues and topics are things that a majority of young adults will experience in their lifetime. Ultimately, this book has shaped and even changed the lives of our youth today. I decided to read this book because the topic of suicide is one that hits home with my family. On May eighth of this year my cousin Chris took his own life. I don’t agree with his decision by any means. This book has helped me understand and even come to terms with what goes through the mind of a suicidal person. At this time, I have so many issues with this novel. In some of the margins I wrote swear words because the content of the …show more content…
Many of the incidences in her 13 tapes could have been prevented if she just listened to her intuition instead of looking for things that she knew would make her world spiral out of control. Her first tape explains one of the most important reasons she killed herself and that was because of a rumor. A stupid rumor that caused another whole spiral of events. I only have a huge problem with this because Hannah has stated many times things like, “ I was a little wary of Marcus. A little suspicious. But not of him so much as the people he hung out with” (Asher,135). So this quote not only shows that she was suspicious of Marcus it shows that she decided to give him the benefit of the doubt even when she clearly knew it was a stupid idea. This worries me because in the novel it seems as though t Hannah was looking for excuses as to why she killed herself. This is not my view of suicide, I know people whom commit suicide are extremely and mentally ill but the way that Hannah was portrayed in the novel I don’t think she was mentally ill at all. Relatively, I feel like she put herself in so many of these terrible situations. I am not saying that she deserved what happened to her I am saying that many of these instances could have been stopped if she wasn’t looking for her snowball effect to get bigger. At certain points in the book it seemed like she was looking to put herself into the worst …show more content…
That’s just it though, the book is relatable. A book about the thirteen reasons why a teenage aged girl committed suicide is relatable. Many of the thirteen instances mentioned in this book are things a lot of high school students go through. All teenagers whether they know it or not will have a rumor spread about them, they will get bullied. In my sophomore year of high school in just two short months is where my snowball affect started. First off there was an instagram picture of me floating around with the caption, “my bitch aint got no ass” so yes this was a picture of me wearing a skirt and some asshole decided to take a picture of me to ridicule me online. Stuff like this happens all the time, to everyone. The reason I wore this skirt in the first place was to make me feel beautiful because on the night before that incident I was rejected from my dream job, and the night before that, my boyfriend broke up with me. So I completely relate to Hannah’s “snowball effect” but it did not in any shape or form give me the okay to push away anyone that was there for me, it did not give me the reason to make stupid decisions such as let a drunk girl drive home from a party at night like Hannah did. This section of the book also really upset me because Hannah literally let a drunk girl drive home, “you revved the engine and I took the hint, stepping back onto the curb. Then you