makes decisions can be among the main factors that determine whether that person is protected from or vulnerable to suicide. The novel Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher is about reasons that led to Hannah Baker’s death and reveals that several small choices can affect a major decision. For instance‚ Hannah creates thirteen cassette tapes explaining why she is making the decision to take her life. Thirteen different ways people are hurting her. Each reason affects her differently‚ but all thirteen reasons
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Jay Asher’s book 13 Reasons Why is entertaining. His story of Hannah Baker and her feelings is disturbing. The main theme is: ’Think before you act; you could be hurting someone without knowing it’ makes me feel depressed. Asher’s use of imagery on page 160‚ "Hannah always looked depressed. The smile on her face never reappeared‚" supports that theme because it shows that the way people acted really did have a negative effect on Hannah. The tone throughout the book is dark‚ but sometimes shifts
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Devil’s Arithmetic‚ a young 12-year old girl named Hannah Stern dislikes her Jewish tradition Passover and is ignorant toward her family’s Holocaust experiences. But when she symbolically opens the door for Elijah‚ she is instantly transported back to 1942 Poland during WWII. As she learns the actuality that the people went through‚ Hannah starts to value the memories of her relatives and their background. At the beginning of the story when Hannah is in the car with her family‚ she keeps asking why
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of sadness and emotion‚ it represents the finality of her decision. At the beginning of Hannah Baker’s school year she was pretty typical compared to other high school teenager‚ she was intelligent‚ beautiful‚ and diligent. As time went on things became more complicated and her emotions and the people around her changed the way she thought about life. Throughout the story Hannah became a romantic. All Hannah wanted was to find someone she could talk to‚ and trust. Although from all her past experiences
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to talk about the book which was made first. In the book the story begins with Hannah and her mother arguing in front of Rosemary’s house‚ and Hannah wishes that her mom would not make her go to the seder at her grandmother’s house. In the book Hannah has a little brother and she tells him a couple of stories to make him less nervous about reading the four questions at the Seder. She is 13 years old and she wrote
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Runnin’: The Kite Runner Parody December 2001 I’m not who I am because of where I went to college‚ or what I’ve done… it’s what I saw at the age of twelve in the winter of 1975. This incident changed my life forever… the alley changed my life forever. Hannah was my best friend‚ a girl yes‚ but none-the-less‚ my best friend. Who am I? I am Amy. Yes‚ probably the most feminine name you could ever give a boy‚ but I’m not feminine at all. Or am I? Maybe sometimes. Papa told me that my mother really wanted
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should not have saved Hannah for three reasons: it hurts her reputation‚ it could lead to Kit’s death‚ and Hannah was very odd. The first reason that Kit should not have saved Hannah is that it hurts her reputation. If she helped Hannah escape‚ she would be put on trial for witchcraft. This could result in her being brutally banished from Wethersfield‚ Connecticut. This would make her reputation worse than it already was. The second reason that Kit should not have saved Hannah is that she could have
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The movie shapes Hannah to look like she was around 16 to 18 years old. Despite this‚ Hannah and her parents‚ do not have Aaron (a.k.a Ron Ron) with them in the movie. Without Ron Ron this throws off the whole plot. To elaborate further about the book‚ Aaron found the piece of cloth and hid it in the dirty laundry. To illustrate‚ Aaron had to read in front of the whole group. Now without him‚ they just have a normal Seder with three children and not four. When Aunt Eva chose Hannah to open the door
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on their special qualities ultimately changing their lives for the better. The minor character in Carter’s book is Hannah‚ who becomes not only a lover for major character Jane Learning‚ but also teaches
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individual’s suicide. Over the course of the novel‚ the reader follows the events in the life of the protagonist‚ Hannah Baker that have led to her tragic suicide. One can argue that secondary character‚ Alex Standall plays a significant role in the story‚ and in Hannah Baker’s suicide‚ as none of the events would have occurred had it not been for Alex’s list. To begin with‚ like Hannah Baker‚ Alex Standall is a new student at Crestmont high school. The two immediately become friends‚ alongside Jessica
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