13 Reasons Why

As of 2017, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. Every year, almost 45,000 people commit suicide, and annually, suicide costs the US about $51 billion. But, aside from all the statistics, aside from the money aspect, those 45,000 victims, are people, with families, friends and lives, and that’s what people seem to forget. Attempting to understand how devastating a suicide can be, without actually experiencing one, can be hard, but, readers are in luck because, there is a new book and movie series (on Netflix) called Thirteen Reasons Why, a true story of Hannah Baker a young girl who killed herself in the early 90’s. Now… this may seem like just another documentary or sci-fi book about someone’s suicide story, but it goes far deeper than that. Within the true story of Hannah Baker, comes a mystery, and an ending of despair and jail time. The book is a cross between what life is like for friends and family of Hannah, after her death, and in a stranger series of events, somehow, Hannah left a collection of tapes filmed by herself, expressing why she killed herself and whose fault it is. But, the story gets even more twisted, within all the tapes Hannah created, are secrets, dark tragic secrets that happened to her a month before she killed herself. These secrets incriminate her own friends, family, and even, the love of her life, Clay Jensen. “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. Everything. . . affects everything.” ― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why (GoodReads) . My personal opinion on the book and movie Thirteen Reasons Why (because I’ve read & seen both) is that I think the main idea of the story is very powerful. Suicide is not something people can choose to ignore until someone close to them does it, suicide needs to be something everyone thinks about & is cautious about. Becoming a victim, or a grieving friend or family member can happen to anybody in such a short amount of time, and everybody needs to know it isn’t a joke! People really do kill themselves everyday, and people really do go to jail for intentionally or unintentionally causing someone to kill themselves. I believe my opinion of this book compared to other critics is very similar in the fact that almost everyone who has read this book, or heard Hannah Baker’s story, agrees that this needs to be published for everyone to see so that maybe the world can start to grasp the fact that suicide is not a joke. How many more victims does 2017, 18, or so on, need to take for the world to realize bullying, suicide, depression, etc is no joke! It deserves recognition, and suicide should be a real prosecutable crime. I know this to be true because, Common Sense Media says the same, “There are positive messages here about the importance of treating people with kindness -- and about the price of inaction -- that parents and teachers may want to help teen readers think and talk about” (CommonSenseMedia) . In addition, I feel the writer’s style in this book, is very metaphorical. I feel it has to be written this way because Hannah is already gone… so it can not be in present time or even a biography of her life. The author also incorporated the use of, foreshadowing, by including many recurring elements in Hannah’s story, illusions, imagery, and parallelism by showing the parallels Clay, Hannah’s boyfriend finds between him and Hannah. I would recommend this book to anyone in highschool, whether girl or boy, and I’d recommend this book to any parent who has a teenager that is struggling with depression, or not fitting in, or feeling like an outcast. This book contains a lot of good coping mechanisms, and teaches its readers how to look for the red warning signs of someone who is suicidal. Hopefully, with this book and the new series on Netflix becoming more and more popular, more people will realize that suicide is serious and it could just take five seconds out of your day, saying hi to someone, to save someone and make them smile & feel accepted. This book I feel, was intended to appeal to high schoolers, which I feel it achieved because even personally, right after the book & movie released, I saw it all over my Twitter timeline. Thirteen Reasons Why was all my highschool friends could talk about, so I decided to give it a try. This book appeals to high school students because it deals with Hannah Baker, a young American girl in highschool, dealing with drama, depression, bullying, and every other unfortunately, normal aspect of high school. This helps appeal to teenagers all over the US because it reminds them that they are not alone, although what happened to Hannah was very tragic, her story is incredibly inspiring because it gives hope to many other teens going through the same thing that they aren’t alone in this battle. Although Hannah lost to her depression, it is an important lesson to others that they too, don’t have to take their lives because of depression and bullying. The reasons for conflict to rise in this book is because, her family, friends & boyfriend are dealing with the pain of losing Hannah, when suddenly, these tapes, with Hannah Baker talking on them, start circulating around…but only to selective people who were one of the reasons Hannah killed herself. So, with that being said, whoever got the tapes, knew they were one of the causes to Hannah’s death. It caused anxiety, fear of going to jail, and sadness through the characters, book and projects those feelings to the reader as well. To me, one of the most important quotes in this book is, “I wrote a note to Mrs. Bradley that read: "Suicide. It's something I've been thinking about. Not too seriously, but I have been thinking about it" (9.201) . I feel this quote is very important because it shows that Hannah tried to reach out to her teacher by writing her a note, but her teacher unfortunately didn’t take the note seriously enough because a week later Hannah was gone. This is an important yet tragic lesson in this book that suicide is something you need to act fast on, if someone is giving a cry out for help, please don’t ignore that cry for help, help them, listen to them, hug them, maybe if her teacher had done that she wouldn’t be gone today. But, like many others, Hannah is now an important story in our history, of how hard it can be to be a teenager. I urge anyone and everyone to read this book and hear Hannah’s story because then maybe we can reduce those 45,000 victims that 2018 will claim, to zero.

Let me begin by stating that as far as I am concerned, THIS BOOK IS NOT ABOUT SUICIDE. I apologize for the caps: If Amazon allowed me to bold my words, I'd make them bold instead of "shouting" at you out here in cyber space. This point needed to be emphasized because the negative reviews reflect what is (in my mind at least) a poor understanding of the point of this novel. The book definitely deals in the subject of suicide, but suicide isn't the point of the book. In my opinion, the purpose of this book was to demonstrate the ripple effect. One moment in a person's life can cause a ripple effect. For Hannah Baker, it was her first kiss -- a wonderful experience for her, and one she might have carried as a positive experience for the rest of her life had it not been marred by nasty rumors that later floated around her school. In Hannah's story, one thing leads to another, eventually culminating in her suicide. Some reviewers have noted that this is not the way that suicide works. That her "reasons" for ending her life are an over-simplified version of what a suicidal person experiences. As someone who has been to that dark place (though fortunately never so far as to make a plan), I can vouch for what they're saying. Were this purely a book about suicide, I would have to agree that it missed its mark entirely. But because this book relates more specifically to the way that one event can cause a ripple effect in a person's life, I believe that it was quite effective in sending its message to the reader that we must be careful about the way that we treat one another, because we don't know how what we do today may affect them tomorrow. Mr. Asher might have done more to address the topic of suicide in this book. He might have gone further to address the fact that the feelings that drive a person to suicide are generally the desire to escape. Hannah did, I will be real with you, give the impression that she ended her life in order to punish her tormentors. After all, there is little other purpose in distributing the tapes that she did. The tapes are a punishment, a guarantee that the people on her list will think of her for the rest of their lives. This is, no question, an over-simplification of a difficult topic. I agree with the negative reviews about that. When I contemplated suicide at my most serious, I thought about it because I believed that I could no longer handle the strain and anxiety of post traumatic stress disorder. Most teenagers aren't driven to suicide because of a rumor in school. They are driven to suicide because they feel that they are, somehow, wrong. That they cannot cope with their lives any more. Without knowing more about Hannah's home life and her parents, the way that her parents might have handled her changes in personality and appearance, we cannot know how deep her reasons went. We DO know that there were more reasons -- more PEOPLE -- than just those thirteen on the tapes that she sent out. But we don't know what they are, or how her parents handled her downward spiral (though we DO know that they were busy fighting against the mall moving in that would take business away from their shoe store). I enjoyed this book, but I don't recommend it as a way to understand suicide more deeply: I recommend it as a good book for understanding the way that one's actions may snowball (Hannah's words) into something else, and for understanding the way that our decisions affect other people. I'd like to add that this book had a similar feel (to me) to reading Lauren Oliver's _Before I Fall_ without the repetition. I read _Thirteen Reasons Why_ in one day, while _Before I Fall_ took me nearly two weeks of slogging through the repetition. Another similar story is the movie _To Save a Life_.

Throw away comments can have a major impact on someone who's life isn't going the way they want it, if you don't know them well you would never know. But this book made me think about what I say to people, and to maybe challenge others who 're unkind. The book too me awhile to under why it was written like this and who was who. A good read for teenagers in the hope they will think twice. Also good read for parents to understand d what goes on with youngsters, and hopefully recognise signs when things aren't right

Cheguei ao livro depois da série e como a adaptação pra TV foi bem fiel, acho que a crítica é a mesma. A escrita é incrível, eu comecei nesta manhã e hoje à noite já terminei. O final aberto não me incomoda. No livro, até mais que na série, a trama tem um fim bem articulado, mesmo diante das possibilidades de repercussão sugeridas. E quanto às personagens, elas são bem introduzidas e desenvolvidas. Agora, entendo as críticas que detonam o teor de vingança (mesmo não sendo a intenção explicitada por Hannah, soa como tal). Nesse ponto até concordo porque esfregar na cara de alguém que ele é a razão do suicídio de uma pessoa é muito pesado, ainda mais se tratando de adolescentes - claro que alguns ali não merecem nenhum tipo de alívio, como é o caso de Bryce. Além disso, reconheço também as críticas que apontam os danos psicológicos que a trama pode causar ao leitor/telespectador. Mas no final, em mim predomina a opinião de que vale a pena ler e/ ou assistir 13 Reasons Why, principalmente pra entender o quanto se pode ser cruel com o outro e como amparar aqueles que estão próximos.

Prima di vedere la serie tv, ho pensato fosse meglio leggere il libro. In realtà pensavo fosse una mezza idiozia, invece mi sono dovuto ricredere. Dagli occhi di una ragazzina vittima di bullismo, fa riflettere sul senso della vita, sulla sua importanza e su come gesti che ai nostri occhi possono sembrare ingenui ed innocui, agli occhi di altri possano sembrare deleteri, imbarazzanti e irreparabili. Il libro in se è molto scorrevole, va benissimo anche per chi in inglese è alle prime armi. La storia è intrigata e accattivante. E' adatto a tutti. Sia per un adolescente in modo che possa capire cosa sia il bullismo e le sue conseguenze, sia per un genitore in modo che rifletta che proteggere i figli contro qualsiasi accusa non è sempre la via più giusta

Good to read after watching on Netflix

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