Hannah Bailey is a senior attending Warsaw Community High School in Warsaw, Indiana. While in school she lives with her grandparents while her dad works off shore. Hannah has lived in Warsaw, Indiana since birth and she firmly beliefs that the town is conservative. Music, art, and writing is her passion. She highly believes in liberal art, and hope to become a filmmaker. She is a hard worker in which she dedicates her time preparing for college and her future; However, in between school and her personal life she finds time to take upon a relationship with her boyfriend, Joel, of two years. Hannah’s boyfriend is her world; she expresses that without him life is useless. With all her dependence on him in school, engaging with her peers is un-compliable. Instead of hanging out with the other teens in her school she prefers to hang with her friends in the liberal department. Many of the students express that Hannah does not suite their expectations as a friend. For example: During the film the school hosted prom the senior prom, while at the prom Hannah stayed distant from the other students. …show more content…
Joel, the love of Hannah’s life found interest in another girl at school. Because they are not talking anymore, Hannah decides to stop coming to school for a few weeks. Knowing that he was the only person she cared for, he left her questionable and weak. The break up between them to brought Hannah to a very dark place. At this very moment Hannah felt that everyone was against her. However, this was no excuse to missing school. The school educators and Counselor demanded that she return back to school or they will have to dismiss her from
What follows is a story of hope, terror, and courage. Hannah meets Rivka
The main theme of the book, Speak, centers around feelings of isolation. Before beginning her freshman year, the main character, Melinda, attends an end of the summer high school party. For reasons that are not made known until later in the story, Melinda ends up calling the police, which causes the party to get busted and makes everyone hate Melinda. In addition to being an outcast among her friends and peers, Melinda also struggles in her relationships with the adults in her life. Throughout the course, we have discussed how many topics of adolescence can be critiqued through books and movies.
As Hannah opens the door, she is transported to 1941 Poland and unknowingly becomes her Aunt Ava’s, formally known as Rivkah, cousin as she steps into the life of a prisoner in a German concentration
A young lady by the name of Hannah Graham was vanished and abducted. Accordingly, a search for a missing University of Virginia student was discovered missing on September 13, 2014. Hannah went to several parties the day of September 13, 2104 after leaving the last party she was walking unsteadily. A hunt involving over 100 volunteers were on duty, an award was made of 50,000 with any information leading to her safe return home. At one moment she texted a friend, and said she was
This telling of a tragic story is able to influence the readers to romanticize the story of Ethan, Mattie, and Zeena, while the novel itself stays true to its naturalist roots. This is important in the development of the plot and the audiences connect to the characters as the readers begin to root on the forbidden love that Ethan and Mattie have, and then in turn, by the end of the novel have pity for all characters. Towards the end of the novel, the narrator has a conversation with Mrs. Hale about what he saw, which gives the readers yet another perspective of the story. “Mrs. Hale answered simply: ‘There was nowhere else for her to go;’ and my heart simply tightened at the thought of the hard compulsions of the poor” (pg. 179). This interaction between the narrator and Mrs. Hale further allows for irony to emerge as their descriptions of the emotions they felt towards the accident influence how the reader feels.
Furthermore, Hannah enjoys science with Mr. O’Dell, and E.L.A. with Mrs. Smith. Hannah has been in one karate tournament, the tournament was nerve wracking, though she won first place. Her goal is to be at the next belt (blue) by the end of sixth grade. Her other goals are to be a navy belt (the belt after blue) by the middle of seventh grade, and to be a black by age sixteen. Hannah is fond of going to school.
Her encounter with this boy dramatically changes the way she views herself as she loses confidence, pride, and self-esteem when she starts to change the way she dresses to impress others, making new friends who did not know her past, and lies about her life by fabricating her identity to cover up her true background. Heather’s new identity even changes her taste in guys making her go for guys from the suburbs with two-story houses so these guys were above her level meaning that if she dates these types of guys, she can possibly have class as well as them. Heather’s relationship with this suburban guy seems sturdy to her as they have lasted a few years and the thought of having kids in the far future caused her to ask her boyfriend as he responds that “he couldn’t see himself having a child with someone from a white trash background” (O’Neil 16). Heather is startled by her boyfriend's response because she thinks that she can escape her white trash background by changing her appearance and how she appears to people she meets but this causes her to realize
In the book “Thirteen Reasons Why” by Jay Asher, three elements that are relevant to the teen are how rumors and drama can change multiple things, relationships can often lead to broken trust and hurt feelings, and how these can pertain to suicidal thoughts, just as it did Hannah. Even though she had just
But in the film when Hannah wakes up in Rivka’s village, Rivka says, “I’m your cousin Rivka.” Hannah’s sacrifice in the movie had a family obligation attached to it, unlike the selfless one Yolen includes in her novel. Additionally, Rivka and Hannah’s relationship in the film considerably alters the course of their life in the camp. Because Rivka is her cousin, she was not there to give Hannah the rules to live by in the camp. In the novel when Hannah and Rivka meet, Rivka tells her to, “Never stand next to someone with a G in her number.
Thirteen Reasons Why has brought a controversial exposure to events leading to her suicide, her rape, and her ultimate suicide. Hannah didn't get a very welcoming start to her new town. From being overwhelmed by her abnormal principal, to being dragged into a friendship, this wasn't the best way for her to begin. Many of these events contributed to the long list of reasons for her ultimate suicide. Even the many classmates that wanted to befriend her didn't try in a very efficient way.
Hanna has what the narrator describes as the perfect life. Her parents are together, her house is friendly and her dad even visits their fifth-grade class. The two best friends were perfectly content with their life and no matter what they would not be separated nor turn against each other. “We were the girls with the wrong school supplies, and everything we did after that, even the things done just like everyone else, were the wrong things to do” (Horrock 473). Hanna and the narrator did not care whether they were doing the wrong thing socially, as long as they had each other.
“I wrote a note to Mrs. Bradley that read: ‘Suicide. It's something I've been thinking about. Not too seriously, but I have been thinking about it’” (170). After meeting with Mr. Porter, Hannah firmly decides that her life is not worth living.
Hannah was a very hard worker and by working night and day she became very good at playing the piano. Hannahs talent was shown in the story when it was said that “[she] was playing the music of Beethoven and Liszt with proficiency’’(1). Therefore all these statements show that Hannah was a very devoted ignorant and hard working girl at the start of the
By watching his mom stand up to people of a higher, privileged class, Jason is meant to be inspired to reject torment from the ‘elite’ of his own grade school microcosm(the bullies). Though rocky at the start of the novel, the relationship between Jason and his sister Julia develops with the plot and, upon conclusion, she also reveals herself as a role model and advocate of Jason’s “Inside-You”. In a way that echoes the actions of her mother, Julia too stands up to an arrogant authority. She tells Uncle Brian that “I intend to study law in Edinburg, and all the Brian Lambs of tomorrow will have to do their networking without me”(52). A beautiful exemplar for Jason, Julia refuses to let the popular beliefs of others
Movie Summary: In the movie Mean Girls, Cady Heron is experiencing her first year in school despite being 16 because her parents are research zoologists and homeschooled all her life since they were in Africa on an assignment. Consequently, she had very little contact with people her age let alone western culture and was not aware of the dealings of high school or adolescence in general. As can be expected it was hard for her to adjust to this new life where adults don’t trust her and she is restricted by unfamiliar rules. She feels lonely until she becomes friends with Janis and Damian, who guide her and teach her about all the cliques in the school.