What Does Hannah Commit Suicide In Thirteen Reasons Why

“… I decided something. I decided to find out how people at school might act react if one of the students never came back. ” In Jay Asher’s award winning novel Thirteen Reasons Why a young, smart and talented girl commits suicide. Why would a girl with her whole life a head of her commit suicide? What pushed her off the edge? Hannah herself will tell you why. Hannah creates a set of cassette tapes with the thirteen reasons why. Throughout the tapes Hannah tells her deepest and darkest secrets not only about her but the thirteen people on the tapes. Some peoples lives will forever be changed by the tapes. The three main contributing reasons why Hannah commits suicide is her friends betrayal, the snowball effect taking control of her life , and the guilt of her allowing a girl to be raped while she sat there and watched. Hannah was the new girl in …show more content…
But, that wasn’t the case, and Hannah knows she and Justin are responsible for a girls life being ruined. “… Either one of us. We could have saved her. And I’m admitting this to you. To all of you. That girl had two chances. And both of us let her down. ” Hannah couldn’t help but feel guilty, and the guilt ate her alive. At the time of the rape, Hannah was hiding in a closet while her former classmates Jessica, who was passed out drunk on the bed, and Bryce and Justin talked about just letting her be. Justin permitted Bryce to go into the room and take advantage of Jessica, while Hannah’s world was crashing down. Hannah was having a break down. Instead of saying something, she witnessed the rape. That was the last straw for Hannah. With the state Hannah was in, she couldn’t handle knowing the truth about herself and not helping Jessica. This is just gave her the push over the edge. Hannah’s mind was made up. She was