Thirteen Reasons Why #2 - Jay Asher

From what I read after my first blog I have noticed that Hannah says the same thing over and over again and I think there is a reason for it too. In the book it states "some people may say she was over dramatic over the whole thing. It shouldn't be a reason to kill yourself." She explained it herself that she feels thats what people might think when they hear the reason why she did what she did. In almost every tape she explains that it wasn't just a small thing that got her all wound up and made her kill herself. She tires to explain that those events that happened all have a reason for why she did it. Hannah keeps saying that just because it may have seemed so small like a rumor about a kiss turning into something more was just a rumor. But like she said it wasn't. When the rumors kept going around people kept putting labels on Hannah. Thats what ruined her, she didn't want to be the "talk" of the school. She didn't want people to look at her like she was something else and that she did something stupid. Hannah knew what happened but everyone else believed something else. Thats why in her tapes she says don't think it was just a little thing that made her lose it, because it was something much bigger than what everyone thought. Since I kept reading her words over and over I do get the sense and feeling of why she did have a reasonable reason to do what she decided to do.

Later on in the book I infer that the word is probably going to get out. Theres just something about the different people that have received the tapes that makes it seem like one of them in the future that gets the tapes is not going to listen to them fully and is not going to pass the tapes along to the next person. In the book Thirteen Reasons Why it states "If you don't pass the tapes along be ready to receive payback because there were copies made." Hannah said that there was someone watching each and everyone of the people that have received the tapes and if they fail to send the tapes to the next person then the tapes were going to be put out to public for everyone to hear. I feel like the next person that is supposed to get the tapes will not pass the tapes along because they might just think its a joke. I feel like the tapes are going to be public sooner or later. I will finish the book to find out if the tapes end up getting out.

Thirteen Reasons Why by : Jay Asher

The book thirteen reasons Why is about a girl named Hannah Baker who committed suicide. The purpose of this book is to know why Hannah did what she did. Before she committed suicide she left behind 7 tapes and on both sides there were reasons why she did what she did. After she finished recording the tapes she sent it to the first person mentioned on them. The secret about the tapes is that on each set there is a person mentioned and Hannah tells her story about how that person effected her life and made her do what she did. In the beginning of the book it first starts off with a girl but it doesn't exactly explain who it is, the thing is she just starts off saying she's going to school, walks into her class and sees an empty desk. That empty desk used to be Hannah's and after that it goes into the person that got the tapes - Clay Jensen. The funny thing about him getting the tapes in the beginning of the story was that his name wasn't the first name on the first tape, or even the second. I find out it interesting how his name isn't in the first two tapes but he was like the first one to receive the tapes from the start of the story. In the book Thirteen Reasons Why it states "I shouldn't even be on this list, I didn't even do anything," that statement was said by Clay. When he first read the tapes he didn't understand why he even got them in the first place because he feels like he never really talked to Hannah the last time he remembers actually seeing and talking to her was a couple months ago at a party when they made out. I'm going to keep reading to find out exactly why Clay is really on those tapes.

From what I read so far I think that before Hannah left she did have many problems going on. However, I still don't understand how it got so bad that she had to kill herself. I read that this guy named Justin who was Hannah's first crush made up many lies about her. She was just the new girl in town so it was easy for people to make up lies about her and it let people believe them too. Justin was Hannah's first real kiss that happened in the park while they were alone. He was a sophomore and she was a freshmen so it was easier for him to lie about what happened that day. They went out for a month or so and the rummers were going around without Hannah knowing about it until the end. Justin ended up saying that more then a kiss happened that night and thats when things began to get ugly. At first only a few people knew about it but then those people told more people and it kept expanding until Hannah found it but it was too late to put an end to it. Then thats when people started talking more and more about her and I can understand why that would be one reason to committed suicide I guess you could say. But I really want to know the other reasons why she did it and thats why Im going to keep reading until I find out the truth.