Sarah Baker January 28‚ 2012 Mr. smith Book Critique: Thirteen Reasons Why Genre: Fictional mystery‚ suspense & drama Thirteen Reasons Why is a heartrending‚ fictional story written by Jay Asher‚ his first published book. It is filled with mystery‚ drama and suspense. Hannah Baker commited suicide. Clay Jensen‚ a classmate of Hannah’s is still trying to digest the sudden and heartbreaking news. When Clay returns home from
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with bleak light and bare limbs: he is‚ we may say‚ a certain kind of language‚ opposed to euphony‚ to those "noble accents and lucid inescapable rhythms" which Stevens used so memorably elsewhere in Harmonium. … There are thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird because thirteen is the eccentric number; Stevens is almost medieval in his relish for external form. This poetry will be one of inflection and innuendo; the inflections are the heard melodies (the whistling of the blackbird) and the innuendoes
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English 12 Thirteen Reasons Why By Jay Asher Jay Asher grew up in California‚ and has always had a thing for books. Growing up‚ he worked in several different book stores and libraries. He attended Cuesta college right after he graduated high school‚ majoring in elementary education. He then transferred to California Polytechnic State University where he left in his senior year. He decided he wanted to pursue a career as a serious writer. Thirteen Reasons Why is Jay’s first
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“You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life‚ you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately‚ you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life‚ you’re messing with their entire life.” (Asher 108). After reading this passage immediately I interpreted this as the message or lesson of the novel. This is true because Hannah experienced this first hand. Everyone in this book had no idea that
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There are thirteen barrier islands in the United States called Cumberland Island‚ Golden Isles of Georgia‚ Jekyll Island‚ Little St. Simons Georgia‚ Little Tybee Island‚ Ossabaw Island‚ Sapelo Island‚ Sea Island Georgia‚ Skidaway Island Georgia‚ St. Catherines Island‚ St. Simons Georgia‚ Tybee Island Georgia and Wassaw Island. All of these islands have many different types of histories. Cumberland Island has three major ecosystem regions along the western edge of the island there
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It has recently announced that a new movie theater may be built in your neighborhood. Do you support or oppose this plan? Why? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.Words: 334‚ TIME: 30 My neighborhood is a nice quiet area near the center of the city. Building a movie theatre in the neighborhood will not be so good for the people living here because can bring a lot of traffic‚ people will get annoyed by the noise of lots of people coming every day at the theatre and a I believe
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There are four paintings that I want to show and analysis. Tow of them from ancient China‚ and the other two paintings from the Western imperial portraiture. Firstly‚ look at this painting. This painting is part of The Thirteen Emperors‚ which is collected in Museum of Fine Art Boston. This painting was created by the painter - Yan Liben around AD. 581 - 604. More specifically‚ the material of this painting is Classical Chinese Painting On Silk‚ from this short sentence‚ we can know this emperor
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Colton Landaiche Ms. Dehorn Period 3‚ English October 20‚ 2015 Thirteen Reasons Why A: Thirteen Reasons Why‚ an adult novel by Jay Asher‚ is written from the point of view of a Junior in High School‚ Clay Jensen. To some extent‚ however‚ the story focuses primarily on Junior Hannah Baker‚ Clay’s crush. One day‚ when Clay returns home from school‚ he finds a strange package on his doorstep -- addressed to him. Inside‚ he discovers thirteen tapes‚ all recorded by Hannah Baker. One thing is very confusing
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school student who committed suicide. No one saw it coming‚ no one expected it‚ no one noticed or determined the signs of thoughts of suicide that Hannah portrayed. Before she committed this tragic event‚ Hannah left behind thirteen recorded messages that explained the thirteen reasons to why she killed herself; the reasons to why she was driven over the edge. Each of these messages were copied to tapes‚ each side of the tape was directed towards one specific person in which caused one of the reasons
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Suicide is a very touchy topic in young adult literature; people often debate that the book is inappropriate for the targeted audience. The book Thirteen Reasons Why‚ By: Jay Asher‚ is about a young man‚ Clay Jensen‚ who returns home from school one day to find mysterious box with his name on it sitting on his porch. Inside he discovers cassette tapes with thirteen reasons why his school crush‚ Hannah Baker‚ committed suicide and he’s one of them. Parents‚ and teachers complain that a book containing sexually
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