Hannah Baker's Suicide In Thirteen Reasons Why

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Thirteen Reasons Why (1-288)
Focus Statement: In Thirteen Reasons Why, author Jay Asher uses the aftermath of Hannah Baker’s suicide to describe the signs of a suicidal individual and to show what effect your actions can truly have in the world. In this novel, protagonist Clay Jensen is discovering the world as Hannah Baker knew it, guided by a set of audio tapes she left behind. The audio tapes describe the events in Hannah's life that brought her to the decision to commit suicide. Throughout his viewing of the tapes, he [Clay] starts to notice all the signs that Hannah