It’s a fact; after a while everything you bend will break. And if you haven’t noticed, people are the same way. The longer you bend, the quicker you break. Well, that’s what happens to Hannah Baker in Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher; unfortunately for Hannah, it’s too late. Hannah committed suicide two weeks ago and has left the thirteen reasons why on seven cassette tapes. These cassettes are passed to the thirteen people that represent the reasons. Clay Jensen doesn’t know why he’s one of the reasons, but if he listens, he’ll find out.
The first reason is Justin, her first real boyfriend and first kiss. After kissing her he started spreading malicious rumors about her. He eventually ruined her reputation, making it easier for reason number two, Alex, to put her on his hot/not list. Alex put her on the list for the hottest butt, and put her friend Jessica on the latter side of the list to get back at Jessica after she dumped him. Afterwards, being so mad, Jessica lashed out at her former friend and started Hannah’s sink into self-hatred.
The fourth person was Tyler, a student photographer by day, and a peeping-tom by night. She noticed his nocturnal visits and with number five, Courtney, they caught him. Afterwards, Courtney and Hannah were supposed to be friends, but when Courtney didn’t need Hannah anymore, she dumped her off. So much for friends, right? It seems to me like Hannah was having the worst high-school time I’ve ever heard of.
During a Valentine’s Day match-up contest, Hannah is persuaded to go out with Marcus, who is a known prankster and best friend of the dreadful Alex. Well, first off, Marcus is late. I’m talking probably thirty to sixty minutes late; then he tries to rape her in the backseat, and no one tries to help her. The only one that seems to help is Zach. She liked Zach; he seemed like a good guy until he started stealing the notes she was getting from one of their classes. This made Hannah feel alone and very hurt. Then Ryan, number eight, who was the school magazine editor, stole a piece of her poetry that was really good, published it and everyone laughed at it. So much for good old high school times, huh?
As everything adds up, Hannah gets worse and worse. So far I’m on page 194, only through reason number eight. I’m guessing clay is coming up soon, mainly because there are only five left, and he’s one of them. I hope he didn’t do anything wrong, because he’s obviously pained about the tapes, because he’s had a crush on Hannah for a long time. I can’t imagine him doing something bad to Hannah, so I hope he did something, maybe the only thing, good in her life. I want to find out how this book ends because it’s so sad and touching. I almost want to cry.
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