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John Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why

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“…I’m about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended,” (Asher 7). How would you react if a box of tapes showed up on your steps from the girl that just ended her life? In Thirteen Reasons Why it captures the realities of an every day teenage girls life. When a girl commits suicide a boy named Clay receives 13 tapes that she recorded. The book captures the emotions of what the suicidal girl went through everyday as well as the boy that was listening to the tapes emotions. The title, Thirteen Reasons Why, fits the book like a puzzle piece for three reasons. First the title tells you there are 13 people that pushed her to kill herself, tells you that the thirteen reasons is why she killed herself, and it tells you
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