Mistakes In Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why

A high school girl, new to the town and new to the school, commits suicide because of the things others have done to her. She made tapes with the people who lead her to end her life. Hannah was a freshman at a new school and a new town, she wanted to use that to her advantage but then rumors started. She recorded seven cassette tapes with thirteen people on them, they were the people who lead to her suicide. The rumors tie in to a theme of the novel, rumors are almost impossible to disprove. Hannah uses the tapes to justify committing suicide and the people on the tapes did unreasonable things that lead to her actions. In the novel Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, the setting and point of view affect the themes.
One theme is that rumors are
Hannah new to the town in the setting and no one knows her. At the beginning of the novel Hannah explains her new home, “ I was just cautious. New town. New school. And this time, I was going to be in control of how people saw me”, (Asher 11). To explain Hannah was new to a small town and she does not know anyone. She wants to use this setting to her advantage and have people see her in a certain way. She is cautious about her actions in the beginning. Furthermore, Hannah sees this new town as a fresh start. She wants to take control of her reputation. Hannah has her first kiss and the boy starts rumors about her being easy and slutty. Hannah tries to stop the rumors and save her reputation. It is hard to disprove the rumors without some friends to count on to back her up. After the rumors start, Hannah talks about a list going around her new school and she was voted on the hot side with the best ass in freshman class, “ i tilted my head so I could read the upside down title of the paper: FRESHMAN CLASS- WHO’S HOT/ WHO’S NOT”,(Asher 39).
She uses that to justify her suicide. Hannah explains “I hope you’re ready, because i’m about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically why I ended it. And if you’re listening to these tapes, you’re one of the reasons why”, (Asher 7). In like manner, Hannah is telling anyone listening to the tapes that they are one of the reasons she ended her life. That is Hannah’s way of justifies her suicide. Significantly, if Hannah had not sent out the tapes then the reader cannot see how it could be justifiable, although there would be no novel without her sending out the tapes. She uses the tapes to explain and justify why she ended her life. As can be seen, Hannah ended her life because from her point of view the people on the tapes had done her wrong and she thinks there is no other way to get out of the life she is living. She makes the tapes and sends them to the people on it them to show them what they did to her to make her end her