Quotes From Thirteen Reasons Why

Hannah’s’ Help

This is a paper that goes through a set of tapes that is trying to help teenagers not want to commit suicide. ENJOY MRS. REED

We are going to start with what this book “Thirteen Reasons Why” is about. A girl named Hannah Baker committed suicide. She felt it would be a good idea to make a set of tapes and send them to the people that compelled her to kill herself. She never really “let anybody in” and when someone like Clay Jensen, the other main character in the book, also the narrator, tried to help she would shut down. At one point in the story, Hannah and Clay were at a party and Clay was trying to be there for Hannah and she screamed at him to leave her alone. This book without a doubt could possibly save teen lives.
Hannah starts this tape with talking about “everyone’s favorite class”. This class is Peer Communication. But things of course started getting worse for her so this class became as she calls it “safe haven”. Mrs. Bradley the teacher for the Peer Communication’s class was not like other teachers, she did not allow anyone to harass anyone else. In this class the kids talked about anything and everything, even touchy subjects. And to help the students even more Mrs. Bradley created a system to help the kids give each other compliments or notes of encouragement anonymously. A wire rack, kind of like the ones you would see at book stores or drug stores holding magazines or sunglasses or even books. But she put one of those in the classroom and there were paper bags in the slots. The kids designed the bags, they put stickers and their names and all kinds of other things. And the bags stayed open all day for other students to place notes in other kids bags. And as far as Hannah knows no one aver left mean notes, these bags were for nice notes only, and plus Mrs. Bradley would not appreciate it if the kids did that. This teacher and the students had a special relationship. So now we get to the person this tape is really about Zach Dempsey. Hannah is curious why if the bags were for good things why he was stealing her notes out of her bag. But to understand why he on the tapes Hannah has to go back to the night she was at Rosie’s with
Hannah starts the tape talking about poetry. She says how much she loves poetry and how she loves to read and tries to decode it. Hannah says that for a while she tried writing poetry for therapy, she says she kept all her poetry in a spiral notebook. She would go to Monet’s almost every day and write a few poems, it gave her something to look forward to; she could take whatever emotions she was feeling that day and out them in a poem. Hannah begins to talk about her increasing desperation, she feels trapped inside herself with no escape. She says “If you hear a song that makes you cry and you do not want to cry anymore, you do not listen to that song anymore…..” “But you cannot get away from yourself. You cannot decide not to see yourself anymore. You cannot decide to turn off the noise in your head.” So basically what Hannah is saying is that she had to stop writing poetry for a while. She needed to not think so much about her feelings and emotions. She began to miss writing after a few weeks. So Hannah decides to sign up for a free poetry class at the library. The class is called “Poetry: To Love Life.” Hannah says the class does not really meet the standards of the name of the class. Most of the people in the class were unhappy women, writing unhappy, angry poems. The women wanted Hannah to show her “deepest and her darkest.” All Hannah wanted to do was get to the happy party of the class. Hannah also says she wasn’t the only