Barbie Doll And Thirteen Reasons Why Analysis

In a society that we live in today, you have to dress a certain way or look a certain way to be considered attractive. In a world so diverse, we have come to the point of wanting to be alike in so many ways. By changing the way we look, from facial features, to hair, to even the way our bodies are shaped. We let other people opinions overcome our own perceptions of ourselves, which causes us to want to harm ourselves. The poem “Barbie Doll” and drama television series Thirteen Reasons Why show similarities in this concept of a topic. Both are based upon a young woman who sees less of herself and chooses to take her own life due to the cruelness in the world. In the poem “Barbie Doll,” a young girl around the age of puberty is criticized by

Hannah was just like any other young teen but could not take honest criticism. She felt like the world was against her. Both shared similarities because they both were bullied because of their appearance. Unlike most people, opinions mattered to them and it affected them both tremendously. It affected the young girl so badly that she began to overwork herself by exercising. Only to try to please everyone else, she began to realize it wasn’t worth it and neither was she. Like the young girl, Hannah began to change the things about herself also. She cut her hair off and made other bad decisions. Hannah was a outgoing teenager so she liked going to parties and trying to fit in; only to make things worse on what people thought of her. People labeled Hannah as slut because of the things she did, or the things she supposedly did. Hannah was a new student at school and for her to be called names like this was very hurtful. Hannah says on Cassette 5: Side A “You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life.”(Pg. 201) The things people said about her really affected her life and nobody, not even her friends knew the things she was going