“’Sir?’ she repeats. ‘How soon do you want it to get there?’ I rub two fingers, hard, over my left eyebrow. The throbbing has become intense. ‘It doesn’t matter,’ I say” (Asher 1). This conversation between an anonymous character that we learn to be named Clay Jensen and a store clerk introduces the mysterious plot of this shocking yet amazing novel. Clay Jensen, a high school student, finds a set of tapes in his mailbox with the name Jenny on it. Soon after that we come to learn that the package of tapes are the audio suicide notes of Hannah Baker. In the tapes, Hannah expresses the 13 reasons why she committed suicide, hence the title of the novel Thirteen Reasons Why. In this novel I can visualize the severe and utter pain that Hannah Baker felt before her suicide; I can connect to the stress and anxiety Clay Jensen is feeling; and I am questioning what Clay Jensen will do after he listens to the horrific and physically …show more content…
I can especially feel the emotional distraught she was going through. I can visualize Hannah Baker, lying in her bed crying for hours and hours on end. She felt like her life was absolutely hopeless and she had no purpose in life whatsoever. The antipathy that Hannah had towards others especially didn’t help with how she was feeling and eventually lead her to so much distraught that she took her own life. I can also visualize Hannah seeking for help from others, and never getting the assistance that she needed. Although the novel doesn’t mention it, I believe Hannah left people signs regarding how she was feeling, but the world seemed to only beset her: “And if you’re listening to these tapes, you’re one of the reasons why” (Asher 7). She would leave settle hints in each of her tape stories, but nobody seemed to have stopped her from committing suicide and leaving the ones she loved for