Taylor Walker
Mrs. Arnold
English 10
25 February 2015
Thirteen Reasons Why
For my independent reading, I read the book Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. This is a young-adult fictional novel taken place in a small town, Crestmont talking about a young teenage girl, named Hannah Baker taking her own life. They’re many different themes in this book including guilt, blame, death, and betrayal from different people. When I was reading this book I thought to myself that I should be more careful when it comes to what I say and my actions to any person, because I may not know what they could be going through. I cannot imagine what Hannah Baker was going through and would not want to be in her situation. The book starts out by one of the main characters, Clay Jensen coming home from school and realizing he has a random package on his doorstep. He opens the package and sees that it is a shoe box containing seven different tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his high school crush who has just committed suicide. Among the tapes, Hannah also wrote a letter saying to pass the tapes on to each student to hear why she took her life. As the tapes get passed around to each student, Hannah tells each one of them by displaying thirteen reasons how they played a great role in her death. This book is very understandable, but at some parts the tone can be tricky to understand. I would most defiantly recommend this book to anyone around our age.
Taylor i like the links so that i can get a feel of the book. I like how you made the book interesting.
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