13 Reasons Why Analysis

Each day, approximately 105 Americans, 15-24 years old, die by suicide, with one death in the U.S. every 13 minutes. Suicide doesn’t discriminate, it could affect everyone. You may not even realize people are contemplating such a final act, but in reality, there’s so much more you don’t understand. In 13 Reasons Why, Jay Asher uses irony to explain that not all things appear as they seem.
All Hannah wanted in the story was for someone to care for her, little did she know, Clay did. It’s ironic because Hannah expresses interest for Clay in one tape and if he would’ve not been so shy towards her, maybe she wouldn’t of had to commit suicide. This is an example of appearance vs. reality because Clay appeared like he had no interest in Hannah, when in reality he actually did. The author states, “But I wasn’t alone. I knew that. For the first time in a long time, I was connecting--connected--with
This is an example of irony because Hannah wanted to tell someone about the stop sign to put it back up whereas Jenny didn’t want to because of the trouble she would get in. After leaving the stop sign on the ground, the opposite of what was expected happened. A boy from their school delivering pizza was hit by another car at that spot because there was no stop sign for the oncoming traffic. To support my claim, the author states, “‘Hannah, don’t worry,’ you said. Then you laughed. ‘Nobody obeys Stop signs anyway. They just roll on through. So now, because there isn’t one there, it’s legal. See? People will thank me’” (Asher244). To add onto my claim, Jenny makes it appear as if stop signs are useless, and no one listens them anyways. In reality though, they’re needed for many different things and it could’ve saved that boys life in the car