Preview

Book Report for 13 Reasons Why Jay Asher

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
815 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Book Report for 13 Reasons Why Jay Asher
Chulani Sterling English Dr.Genn

Book Report
Title: Thirteen Reasons Why
Author: Jay Asher

This novel is about a girl named Hannah Baker who committed suicide & before she died she recorded 13 audiotapes filled with reasons why she killed herself and they all had to do with a specific person, and she sent all the 13 tapes to the 13 people so they could listen. Justin was the first person on the tape, the boy she first kissed, he exaggerated what they did when they kissed, making her seem “easy” to other boys. 2nd Alex, a boy who said she had the hottest behind in the freshman class on his “hot or not list” making her seem more vulnerable to other boys. 3rd Jessica, one of Hannah’s first friends, She’s mad that Hannah is on the hot list & she's on the "not" list. Jessica also believed the rumor that Justin started about Hannah during their first kiss even though Jessica knew Hannah didn’t do the things he said. 4th Tyler, a boy who stalked her, outside her own bedroom window. Taking pictures without her knowledge until she found out. 5th Courtney, a really nice girl, but she was only nice to Hannah to gain "tally’s" for being voted nicest for the senior yearbook & get a ride to a party. The 6th person was Marcus, a boy Hannah went on a date with and he came 30 mins late because he wasn’t going to come at all but he only came to try and have sex with her. 7th Zach Dempsey stole her compliments from her paper bag in peer communications class. 8th Ryan Shaver, He stole her poem and put it in the school newspaper and took credit for it. 9th Clay Jensen he didn’t have anything to do with her suicide she just wanted to tell him she wished she got to know him better. 10th Justin again because he let Bryce rape Jessica while she was drunk. 11th Jenny Kurtz a cheerleader who hit a stop sign while Hannah was in her car and drove off and that caused a car crash that killed someone. 12th Bryce Walker the boy who took

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    The book “The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer” by Michelle Hodkin is about a girl named Mara. Mara might look like your typical teenage girl that attends high school, but she is not anymore. Mara was involved in a horrible accident that left her as the only survivor while all of her friends died. Mara and her family relocate to Miami, FL. She has to begin school in the middle of the term while dealing with her post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Then, she meets Noah, and falls in love…

    • 454 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Janna And Sione: Summary

    • 852 Words
    • 4 Pages

    A book starting with a story, a story about a seven-year-old girl named Keri playing with her best friend Janna on a zip line in her backyard when she prepared herself to break her arm. Fast-forward eight years to events that Keri in no way could have prepared herself for, her older brother's unexpected suicide. After losing contact with Janna for many years, Janna makes a sudden reappearance with an idea, what if Keri’s brother was murdered? For this paper I will be predicting, evaluating and questioning.…

    • 852 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The novel that I am reading is “I’m Not Her” by Janet Gurtler. It is about the struggles a young girl, named Tess, goes through when she finds out that her sister, Kristina, was diagnosed with cancer. Tess has always been looking up to her older sister, because her sister was always the center of the crowd, sporty, beautiful one and Tess was always the smart, un-popular one. It was always hard on Tess, so when her sister was diagnosed with cancer, she felt as if she could finally be known. All of Kristina’s friends started befriending Tess, now that her sister wasn’t at school. Although Tess loved the popularity, she did have a lot of trouble too. Not a lot of people were asking how Tess was doing about the whole cancer situation but there was one person who was always there for her. His name was Clark. After talking days upon days with him, Tess began to want to be more then friends with him. But Tess also knew that she had to be there for her sister and didn’t have time to have a serious love life at that point in time. Then Tess met a boy from school named Jeremy. Jeremy has a little crush on Kristina, but is also now good friends with Tess. Tess was wondering why he would always talk about Kristina, and then he finally informed her that he always hangs out with her at the hospital when he is visiting his mother, who also has cancer.…

    • 696 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Book Report

    • 630 Words
    • 3 Pages

    |Title of the Book: The AMAZING DAYS of ABBY HAYES#1---every Cloud has a Silver Lining |…

    • 630 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    In this novel it talks about how one of the characters named Colin had dated nineteen girls named Katherine and that they all broke up with him. After the nineteenth one broke his heart he locked himself away in his room and didn’t want to come out. His parents came in to talk to him but he didn’t really feel like talking and then later his best friend came in and tried to cheer him up and get his out of the house.…

    • 282 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The Outsiders Book Report

    • 440 Words
    • 2 Pages

    I chose the quote,"You cannot open a book without learning something" by the Irish proverb because I can relate it to my favorite book,"The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton which taught me lots of stuff that I did not know about. The book is about a 14 year old named Ponyboy and his two brothers Darry who is 16 and Sodapop who is 20 years old. Darry is in charge of them due to both of his parents dying in a car accident. They are all greasers in a gang and often watch over Johnny ,who is another greaser, because his alcoholic parents abuse him. They also have a gang rivalry with the Socs who are rich and pick on the poor.…

    • 440 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Subjection to detrimental experiences and the revelation of a secret or distressing point of time often concludes in the movement towards a different perspective on life. If exposed to a daunting incident, youths may be forced to make choices beyond their years, a state of mind in which Silvey demonstrates through the characterisation of Eliza. Jasper Jones depicts a story that emphasises Eliza’s loss of innocence as a result of exposure to her sister’s suicidal death that was ultimately caused by an abusive relationship with her father. As a result of reading the novel, teens will acquire…

    • 668 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Outsiders Book Report

    • 1321 Words
    • 6 Pages

    The title of this book relates to the story, because in the book, Ponyboy and Johnny are "outsiders." They can be thought of as Outsiders because they are labeled Greasers although they do not act like hoodlums, like the rest of the Greasers. They are thought of as Greasers just because they live on the East Side of town, and because they slick back their hair. But Ponyboy and Johnny are different then all of the other Greasers because they show their emotions, and are sensitive.…

    • 1321 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Outsiders was a great book that includes suspense and fights. This book is in the point of view of Ponyboy Curtis. He talks about how it was living back in 1967. Him and his friends are in a “gang” called the greasers. This “gang” is really a group of good friends that always have eachothers back.…

    • 291 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    I'm here to inform you of this wonderful and horrible relationship between a clueless girl and a dangerous boy in the novel Jake Riley; Irreparably damaged by Rebecca Davis and why you should check it out sometime. Set sometime in the 1990s or current time, it's about a girl named Lainey. Even though Lainey is fast and smart, she just can't seem to get away from one particular friend. Although there are many instances of this ‘friendship’ being crooked, she just can't seem to stay away, and this confusing yet somehow touching truth is shown in the novel when Lainey is thinking to herself, “I hate Jake’s guts, but somehow the fact that everybody gangs up on him and thinks that he’ll get help in the place that damaged him makes me want to beat…

    • 270 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    who risks their life to save other people. Johnny was a hero. He put the kids in the burning church before himself and jumped into that church to save their lives, only to find that he would lose his own. “Johnny shoved me toward the window. ‘Get out!’ I leaped out the window and heard timber crashing down and flames roaring right behind me….Then I heard johnny scream…” (93). In this novel johnny was really a true hero for he had saved many kids…

    • 1349 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Suicide is a very touchy topic in young adult literature; people often debate that the book is inappropriate for the targeted audience. The book Thirteen Reasons Why, By: Jay Asher, is about a young man, Clay Jensen, who returns home from school one day to find mysterious box with his name on it sitting on his porch. Inside he discovers cassette tapes with thirteen reasons why his school crush, Hannah Baker, committed suicide and he’s one of them. Parents, and teachers complain that a book containing sexually explicit content, inappropriate language, suicide, drugs, alcohol, and smoking is not appropriate for young adults to be reading. This book has been challenged multiple times since its release in 2007.…

    • 1358 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Burn Journals

    • 893 Words
    • 4 Pages

    When I first started this book I had an idea that it was going to be really emotional and the boy was depressed for reasons because of home life, or just a sickness he couldn’t understand. But when it started out as such raw thoughts of a male teenage boy, I was completely caught off guard by how honest it was. It started out with his thoughts about the bathroom doors and the fact that he likes that he could lock himself in there if he wants to be alone. That alone speaks volumes about his personality. And then when his mother was talking to him and you could tell that they do not have a close relationship. She seems absent minded about his behavior. And the fact that he is putting his hands up girl’s shirt on the bus also says he has no filter as to right and wrong and thinks that that is okay to do. So overall the first pages of the book took me very much by surprise. It’s scary when he starts to discuss all the ways he has tried to kill himself and why they haven’t worked. My group and I decided that these suicide thoughts have been going on for quite some time If he is still considering killing himself after so many failed attempts.…

    • 893 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Perfect By Ellen Hopkins The book Perfect is an extremely accurate and realistic interpretation of the struggles many young people face during their unpleasant years as teenagers. Centered around the lives of four very different high school seniors; they all have one thing in common: hardships. Some more severe than others, but all in all, they are hardships. Cara Sykes is dealing with not only her parents awful idea of what is right and what is wrong, but also the fact that her brother Conner attempted suicide.…

    • 577 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Melinda is a freshman in high school, with no friends. The past summer, she called the cops on a party. At least that's what everyone heard. The book is called Speak. She goes through a lot inside the book.…

    • 721 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Better Essays