Thirteen Reasons Why: Personal Response
13 Reasons Why is a novel by Jay Asher, that will stay with me because it has genuinely changed my outlook on life. I was fascinated by the character Hannah Baker and her poetic way of describing the terrible events that changed her life.
Hannah sends 13 cassette tapes to people she blames for her suicide, before killing herself by taking a handful of pills. The book is set around Clay Jensen, the ninth person to receive the tapes out of twelve. I was fascinated at how all of these people in her life had somehow contributed to her death, without knowing; how one little thing had set off a ‘snowball effect’ and ended in the tragic death of a 17 year old girl. Reading this book was a moving and very emotional experience for me, being able to connect and heavily relate to the feelings and emotions of the two main characters helped me to understand every word I was reading.
First of all, I really liked the idea of book: a girl explaining why she committed suicide to the people responsible for it. I think the chain of tapes, forcingly being sent from one person on the list to the next was a concept I found intriguing and allowed me to stay involved and crave more with each chapter.Just like Clay, i find myself wanting to know who was on the next tape and why.I loved Clay as a character and i really enjoyed the way he was written into the story. I felt like i was in his shoes a lot of the time, hearing the tapes through his ears and experiencing this journey alongside him. The suspense of each following tape was entertaining, i wanted to know which tape Clay would be featured and when his story was coming up, this gave me a sense of impatience. Each time a new character was introduced was a sigh of relief as it wasn’t Clay’s turn to be humiliated, i found myself wanting what was best for him but i also wanted to know how and why he was involved in the death of Hannah Baker.There’s something addictive about this book, I couldn’t stop reading it because I
Hannah sends 13 cassette tapes to people she blames for her suicide, before killing herself by taking a handful of pills. The book is set around Clay Jensen, the ninth person to receive the tapes out of twelve. I was fascinated at how all of these people in her life had somehow contributed to her death, without knowing; how one little thing had set off a ‘snowball effect’ and ended in the tragic death of a 17 year old girl. Reading this book was a moving and very emotional experience for me, being able to connect and heavily relate to the feelings and emotions of the two main characters helped me to understand every word I was reading.
First of all, I really liked the idea of book: a girl explaining why she committed suicide to the people responsible for it. I think the chain of tapes, forcingly being sent from one person on the list to the next was a concept I found intriguing and allowed me to stay involved and crave more with each chapter.Just like Clay, i find myself wanting to know who was on the next tape and why.I loved Clay as a character and i really enjoyed the way he was written into the story. I felt like i was in his shoes a lot of the time, hearing the tapes through his ears and experiencing this journey alongside him. The suspense of each following tape was entertaining, i wanted to know which tape Clay would be featured and when his story was coming up, this gave me a sense of impatience. Each time a new character was introduced was a sigh of relief as it wasn’t Clay’s turn to be humiliated, i found myself wanting what was best for him but i also wanted to know how and why he was involved in the death of Hannah Baker.There’s something addictive about this book, I couldn’t stop reading it because I