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.
As each day passes in the camp, Hannah realizes more and more how important remembering is because she knows her knowledge about the Nazis may be the only thing between her and death. She clutches at the brief flashbacks she has but ends up sometimes starting to say something that was from her home, New Rochelle, but then suddenly feel like an outcast because she feels crazy talking about things that she doesn’t know
What I thought it suggested was that he was doing something to help this girl that he didn 't do for Hannah. The author is trying to hint that he can help people and to not let his reputation or rumors get in the way. For me it is because it is a new beginning and i think that it was satisfying because Hannah 's death helped clay prevent another potential suicide. 3)
Originally published in 1956, Body Ritual of the Nacirema is an article written by world renowned anthropologist Horace Miner. In this article, Miner tells of his encounters with a Native American Tribe located between Canada and Mexico. This tribe is a culture obsessed with rituals that rely heavily on the image of their body and how it is judged by other individuals. The Nacirema believe that the body is ugly, and only through daily rituals can one find happiness and prosperity. In the article, Miner describes the “rituals” that all of the members must attend in order to be accepted by society and the different superstitious habits that the members take part in.
Hannah has chosen to isolate herself from society and neglect her surroundings. This ignorance allows her to separate herself from the normalities someone of her age would live with, leaving a life revolving solely around piano. She disregards her friends and family, which portrays her level of ignorance. Furthermore, as Hannah progresses through her youth, she begins to realize all the things she misses due to the way she lives. As she becomes more aware of this, an urge builds up inside of her to “break [her] promise to Tante Rose” (4).
Web. 08 May 2017. The story begins a few weeks after a young girl named Hannah Baker commits suicide. Clay, a socially awkward classmate, who had a crush on Hannah, received a shoebox full of vintage cassette tapes.
She tries to navigate through her first year of high school, and it seems like the entire student body despises her; she feels more alone than ever. I will be analyzing and making connections to three specific elements in this novel: the search for one’s identity, Melinda’s inner conflict,
Thirteen Reasons Why is a book written by Jay Asher in 2007. The audience that they want to read the book is teenagers. This story is of a young high school student as she descends into despair brought on by betrayal and bullying from people she thought here her friends, culminating with her suicide. She details the thirteen reasons why in audio diary’s which was mailed to a friend two weeks after her death. At first her friend Clay Jenson doesn’t want anything to do with the tapes Hanna Baker had made.
Dovi Sherman Period 2 Jay Asher’s Thirteen Reasons Why takes place in Crestmont. In this present day novel, Crestmont is described as a small town, made up of just one high school, one hospital, and one park, and everyone seems to know each other for one reason or another. Throughout the story, Hannah Baker, the voice of the mysterious tapes, takes the main character, Clay Jensen, on a journey through her final footsteps. Each destination is described through Hannah’s point of view, in a dark, gloomy fashion, with the intent to show Clay why she killed herself. Moreover, Asher’s vague description of each scene allows the reader’s imagination to wander, and to create its own details.
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher is a book about a high school student, Hannah Baker, who is telling her story about her own death. Before she commits suicide, she creates thirteen tapes telling her story about her life leading up to her death. Each tape she creates is about a single person who has somewhat contributed to her emotional deterioration and eventually her decision of taking her own life. This book is narrated by Clay Jensen, a distant friend of Hannah’s. This book is Clay’s journey where he is getting to know Hannah on a deeper emotional level by listening to her tapes and literally standing in her shoes.
Just as Asher states on page 7, “No, I can’t believe it. Hannah Baker killed herself. I hope your ready, because i'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended.” Hannah recently commited suicide but Clay hears her voice on the tapes.
Imagine having to listen to tapes of a girl who commited suicide just recently. Hearing her voice, not only brings confusion, but triggers memories. In the novel, Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher, a girl, Hannah Baker, purposefully overdoses on pills and creates seven double-sided cassette tapes with thirteen reasons behind her suicide. A fellow-student, Clay, receives the tapes tenth. With no recollection of why he should be on them, he continues.
From my point of view, this story is a good instance because it can reflect the negative effects of action. Nowadays, I often see news about suicide in teenagers. I have a question why they choose to commit suicide. When I read “13 reasons why”, I understand in those people immediately. In this story, Hannah Baker is a normal person.
And that… that is what I needed to find out. And I did find out” (Asher 279-280). Mr. Porter was Hannah’s last hope in giving up on her suicide plan. While Mr. Porter did attempt to enlighten her on how to cope with her current situation, he wasn’t persistent enough to solve her problem, ultimately disappointing her. He wasn’t aware of the severity of the situation nor was he aware of the fact that he would be the last person to talk to Hannah.
Asher structures the story to switch between Hannah and Clay in the events of the story, in order to show how this affected them based
