Suicide has become a very touchy topic among the hoi polloi for various reasons. Most people have at least known someone who had thoughts about taking their life, attempted to take their life, or even succeeded in taking their life. When these things happen, and in today’s world it happens a lot, the outside person witnessing another's suicidal tendencies, wonders why. They seem to never get a solid answer; however, the book written by Jay Asher, 13 Reasons Why sheds some insight on how a suicidal person may feel or why they would commit suicide. Throughout this book, a young girl named Hannah takes the reader through multiple locations, each one with a different story and reason why for her death. After reading, it becomes clear to see that the main theme of the book is: how one person treats another, with both words and actions, really can affect them mentally. …show more content…
Surely, having gone through it, many will find that it’s not too pleasing having people know and believe the lies that are being spread around. In the beginning of the book, Hannah talks about how rumors appeared about her and her friend’s boyfriend, which clearly were not true. This girl was one of Hannah’s only friends because hannah had just moved into that town, and because of those lies that got passed around, Hannah lost her only friend. At the end of the chapter, Hannah responds with this, “It’s a punch in the stomach and a slap in the face. It’s a knife in my back because you would rather believe some made-up rumor than what you knew to be true” (Asher 68). Clearly this left Hannah devastated, However it was only the beginning of her reasons