A tone in Thirteen Reasons Why is caution. This message leaks profoundly into the tone of the book. Some of the time it's truly immediate, similar to when Hannah tells individuals that on the off chance that they'd acted in an unexpected way, she wouldn’t have been directed to take her own life. Once in awhile, it's somewhat more inconspicuous: “I'm listening to someone gives up. Someone I knew. Someone I liked. I'm listening but I'm still too late”. (281-282). Through Clay’s words, the author reminds us that we can hardly wait until it's past the point of no return. Be delicate. Act now. Since we know from the earliest starting point that Hannah has taken her own life, the majority of the stories we hear are exceptionally unpropitious. We need to sit through these stories, realizing that each and every one of the tapes had an influence in why this Hannah committed suicide. This …show more content…
particular tone is very true for high school kids about what happens in their everyday life. At home and at school. If suicide happens at school, people walk around with such caution in their footsteps. Too afraid to confront people about stuff just in case they end up doing the same thing. Same thing goes for talking to people, talk to people with caution because you never know what you say might hurt them. A symbol in the story is the blue nail polish. When she started making the tapes, she would write the numbers on the tape with the blue nail polish and she was also wearing blue nail polish the last time she saw Clay, which was the day she took her life. When he looked back at that day, he remembered what happened. “We almost bumped into each other. But your eyes were down so you didn't know it was me. And together, we said it. "I'm sorry." [. . . ] And there in your eyes, what was it? Sadness? Pain? You moved around me and tried pushing your hair away from your face. Your fingernails were dark blue. I watched you walk down the long hallway, with people knocking into me. But I didn't care”. (14.60, 62). The blue nail polish might also be a symbol of the sweet, romantic girl Hannah is. She's someone who wants to paint her nails, dress up, and experience romance and love. This very typical teenaged girl quality sets up a contrast with what Hannah has become. By this point in the story Hannah's heart and her girlish desires have turned blue, the color of sadness and heartbreak. This symbol is true for girls that commit suicide. A girl I knew committed suicide and the nail polish she was wearing when it happened was black and that's what everybody remembers her wearing the day before it happened. So I believe that this is true for the girl that goes through problems in life. The title shows guilt and blame.
Blaming the people that are in the tapes for reasons of her death. Because Hannah's last words are flawlessly isolated among the thirteen parts doesn't mean there's anything perfect and clean about her clarification for slaughtering herself. She's recording on the most recent day of her life. She's edgy with her own particular blame-worthy emotions and with the outrage she feels toward the general population on the tapes. A large portion of all, she's greatly confounded. The thirteen reasons are a greater amount of an arranging rule she uses to attempt to bode well out of the disarray she feels her life has moved toward becoming. Everybody knows that when somebody commits suicide that they have reasons. Maybe one reason or maybe a whole bunch, but they always have a reason to do it. Some people leave notes behind or nothing, but in this case, Hannah left tapes that tell the people she blames for her death, why she blames them. This book shows how some peoples lives are hard to live through because of what people do to them and that's just how life
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After that hannah and others survive and go to a concentration camp where there are given food and some shelter. Hannah meets this girl who tells her to try not to get picked for the extermination they live their life being cushions and not getting caught or in other words taken.
The movie 13th mainly discusses the problem of racism and mass incarceration after the civil war. Specifically, it is covered in the documentary that many poor black people were put in jail due to minor misbehaviors and were forced to work for the country under convict leasing. Moreover, black people were treated unfairly and sometimes were tortured unlawfully in the society. The “War on drugs” declared by conservative Republicans were biased against black community and resulted in a significant increase in incarceration in the late 20th. In addition, a lot of companies such as Walmart cooperated with States in terms of private prison constructions and gained a huge amount of profits as a result.
At first, Hannah was a pesty, teenage girl who didn’t care about her family or religion. After undergoing a harsh journey, Hannah soon began to change her attitude. She now understands her family and her heritage better. As Hannah’s mind shifts, the theme is developed. Hannah understands how the events in a person’s life can impact the person they are today. In addition, she learned that it is important to remember our history. Those who do not remember the past are destined to repeat
In the first place, she was developed to be secretive because of her loneliness, but befriending Jacob, Norman, and Paul makes her more social, which showed that life is better with sociability. This portion of the novel helped state that, "She looked surprised as though she couldn't believe she had talked so much " ( from page 131). Hannah is generally secretive and lonely, for she lost her family and was made as an example for her lost ears, but when she found out that Jacob was caring and friendly, she decided to trust him and answer his questions. Afterward, she was surprised and stopped, as if waking up from a dream but did not regret it totally. What we should discern from that, Finding a caring friend could change the reality. Moreover, their friendship then developed, and they got to be a family. In the second place, Hannah was unpredictable but did not point to it directly, yet exposed it for her friends, she did all she could. That was stated indirectly in the section on page 161, " She looked at the faces around her – Jacob, Oteka, Paul – and it was as though she began to draw strength from their courage emanating from them and enveloping her. " What Hannah only needed to reveal her real personality and impulsiveness was some courage from her friends, that she loved and cared for, which she read in their eyes. So, McKay delivered " friendship is strong " by making Hannah impulsive. If she was designed to be calm or shy, Norman would not have made it, or even Jacob, sacrificing it to save his friend. Hannah was described in that figure to enhance the idea of friendship's power in
Most people in the world thinks that a degree is required almost everywhere. In today’s society it is often thought that if people do not go to college they will not succeed. In Owen and Sawhill’s article “Should Everyone Go To College?”the author respond to people who either go to college and actually earn a degree or people who do not go to college and are actually saving money. The major reason that college is not always the idea for students and their families is the cost. “The cost of college matters as well: the more someone has to pay to attend, the lower the net benefit of attending.” (Owen and Sawhill, 2013, p. 2 ). Although the authors mention the benefits of attending college, they argue that college is only beneficial under certain
Inside he discovers cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, who had committed suicide two weeks earlier. On the tape Hannah discusses the 13 reasons why she committed suicide him being one of them. Clay Jenson goes around town listening to Hannah and her thoughts about how she saw life. In the end he learns that a lot of people hide in their own skin and face challenges most people can’t see. In the end his view changed and it is showed by him going to a girl in the back of the bus who used to be popular but suddenly changed, showing he notices her change like
After a week, she committed suicide. I couldn’t help but feel that she did it out of guilt. The way she looked apologetically at the photo and the books, it made her appear demoralized. Seeing the picture of the young boy reminds me of you. Just like Hannah who felt that she never redeemed herself or could never be forgiven even by the one person who she loves; I feel hopeless
Hannah husband died and so she allows herself to be use as a sex object by other men. “Sula came home from school and found her mother in bed curled spoon in the arm of a man.” pg.44 Sula had no male figure in her life so she turned to Nel who gave her the closeness she been searching for. Sula shape her identity in that she was determine to prove her point when put in a situation that questioned her character. “She slashed off only the tip of her finger. The four boys stared open mouthed at the at the wounded and the scrap of flesh, like a button mushroom, curling in the cherry blood that ran into the corners of the slate." Pg. 54 Sula choose the path of exploration when she left the Bottom after Nel’s wedding, her experience was of trying to discover herself. Sula’s return to medallion brought about hatred towards her by the town people because Sula had changed. She would sleep with the men in the town and discard them. She also put Eva in a nursing home because she said Eva was mean to her and that she was scared of Eva burning her like she did Plum. The town people despised Sula for her action. They even when as for as accusing her of pushing Teapot down the steps when in truth he fell down the steps and Sula was only trying to help. She didn’t care what they say about her because she didn’t have conversations with the town people with the exception of Nel upon till their
Have you ever felt judged or marginalized only because of the situation you were born in?Having to walk on the street wondering if you’re safe. Have you ever been the one that gets made fun of? The laughing stock? The uncool one? The one with the bad luck? In S.E Hinton's The Outsiders, the Greasers are all of those things. It’s a dark world they live in but they have no choice. Although the narrator, Ponyboy, may not lead the best life, he still tries to make the most of it. Heroism, social class and survival are some of the most transcendent themes demonstrated in S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders.
... make it her own. Religion and its teaching are the one thing that is holding Hannah back, and she has to sacrifice her identity because of her religion. Similarly in Joffé's film The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne a woman that has sex with a reverend, is accused of adultery, even though her husband is dead. She is her husband's property, for seven years after his death, and she may not remarry until then. Hester wonders if it is a good thing to be a woman, even the most powerful of them all. Even after his death, Hester carries the identity of her dead husband, she has no identity of her own. In both examples, religion forces many restrictions onto females, which results in women having to sacrifice their rights, especially the right to an identity.
This is most obvious when she kills her own child. While the death of her son makes her appear like a careless mother to Hannah, Eva views it as an act of love. She notices the poor lifestyle that Plum is living and wanted to help him by ending it. She tells Hannah, “I had to keep him out so I just thought of a way he could die like a man not all scrunched up inside my womb, but like a man” (72). Eva wanted him to die with whatever dignity he had left. Hannah did not share the same view as her mother. She thought that her mother had no love in her. She once asks Eva if she ever loved her and Eva tells her, “What you talkin’ ‘bout did I love you girl I stayed alive for you can’t you get that through your thick head” (69). Hannah saw that Eva did not see an importance in motherhood and she took similar values. As a mother, Hannah is more focused on men than her daughter. She, “refused to live without the attentions of a man, and after Rekus’ death had a steady sequence of lovers, mostly the husbands of her friends and neighbors” (42). Hannah lacks the respect for other people including her own daughter because she only thinks about
Depression is an extremely delicate topic. In the novels “13 Reasons Why” by Jay Asher and “The Perks of Being A Wallflower” by Stephan Chbosky do an outstanding job hitting the topic depression. Both novels cover depression in its own style. In one, someone commits suicide while on the contrary, the other person surpasses depression. Support systems are vital during depression, lack of communication as well as self-expression all lead to an easy way out. Anyone who is suffering from depression should have at least one confident to be able to communicate to. Depression is a heavy weighed disease in which one needs all the support one can get. A voice is needed as well, in which many people are scared of having. In each of the novels each fictional
Ashley and Katie are both young women, being ages eighteen and twenty. They both experienced sexual abuse from their fathers during their childhood, which put a strain on their mental state. They both had relationship issues, something that teenagers typically experience quite often. The analyses of their personal writings offers and insight into the minds of teenagers that is very valuable. Their thoughts and feelings are like those of teenagers, making their mental state and viewpoints comparable. In the Discussion section of Twitter Postings in the 24 Hours Prior to Suicide Lester references consistencies in the language used by both Katie and Ashley, as well as their feelings. While not statistically significant, these similarities show that these two girls had similar feelings that could possibly be related to teenagers in general, making these two chapters combined a fair educational resource for those studying adolescent
Thematic analysis is espoused to be the foundational approach to qualitative analysis and methods (Saunders et al., 2016 as stated in Braun and Clarke, 2006: 78) and it is a useful method used to identify and analyse the order and patterns of qualitative data (Attride-Stirling, 2001). Qualitative research method depicts the correlation that exists between data and events, creating the pictorial representation of what one thinks a given data says (Saunders et al., 2016). They also opined that, qualitative data analysis is cogent, interactive and iterative. Also, Joana and Jill (2011) and Saunders et al (2016) postulate that, qualitative research brings meanings from words and images as opposed to numbers. However, despite its robustness and rigour of its application, it is skewed more to the interpretivist ideologies since researchers draw conclusion from participants and the hypothesis being forecasted (Joana and Jill, 2011; Saunders et al., 2016).
Suicide is a decision one makes to end his or her own life. People who make the decision to end their own life have often experienced depression, guilt, emptiness, or a combination of those, and many more negative things. Hannah Baker is a character in the book Thirteen Reasons Why By: Jay Asher who has lost hope in all aspects of her life. In this story, a boy who contributed to Hannah’s suicide receives tapes of her explaining the reasons why she did it. The tapes take him throughout the city they live in and help him understand further how and why she did this to herself. In this journal, I will be predicting that Clay will help Skye, questioning why both Justin and Hannah said nothing about what happened to Jessica, and connecting Hannah