Hanna Baker's Thirteen Reasons Why

“ Hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why.”(Asher 7) Hanna Baker a girl who commit suicide nearly two weeks ago. Clay Jensen who had a crush in Hanna received the tapes but has no clue why he is on these tapes. In this journal I will be evaluating, visualizing, and predicting. While reading Thirteen Reasons Why I found myself evaluating Hanna Baker when she was talking on the cassette tapes about suicide and the map at the beginning of the book showing the locations of the thirteen encounters. Thirteen people who made her life so horrible that she commit suicide. The person that was most obvious to me was Mr. Porter. Mr. Porter was Hanna’s
Cassette three Hanna is in her room and hears a camera clicks outside of her window. Never seeing anyone she believes it is Tyler Down because he owns camera equipment. Tyler could never be proven as the peeping tom. When I would read this I would see Hanna on her bed and the Peeping Tom outside her window on their tip toes reaching up her window to see in. I also visualized Clay siting at the diner. Clay orders the chocolate shake that Hanna recommends. While Clay was at the diner Hanna talked about Zach Dempsey. Zach took all of the anonymous notes out of Hanna’s bag. This harassment sent Hanna over the edge thinking she is worthless. “I sat. And I thought. And the more that I thought, connecting the events in my life, the more my heart collapsed.” (Asher 160) I see Clay sitting on a bar stool at the counter slowly drinking his chocolate shake listening to the cassette tapes looking lost and sad. Visualizing this book made me look at this book in a different way through the characters