Clay Jensen, a typical high schooler. Avoids being at home and spending ‘’bonding time’’ with his mother and keeps his talk about his romantic relations to a minimum. His heart is shattered when his crush Hannah Baker, whom he’d gone to school with but merely knows by a distance commits suicide. With this news clay also receives a package in the mail with thirteen taped recorded messages inside, plus a map with a number of places circled. There is also no return address. Clay plays the tapes immediately and is shocked to find out that they are from Hannah, giving thirteen reasons why she ended her life. Hannah speaks on thirteen different people and the role they played in her life.
Clay follows each and every one of Hannah’s stories closely, he even travels with the map of each thought out location, he desperately wants to obey her last requests and to hear her story because he is dying to understand, but as he continues to travel he in turn thinks about his own actions and how they affected Hannah as well. He regrets many things but also reflects on many mistakes as well. The overall message of Jay Asher’s, ‘’Thirteen reasons why’’ is as we go on in life we need to understand and become more aware of how we affect peoples lives each and every day.. This book incorporated serious problems that many people deal with in todays society. Rape, sexual abuse, stalking and peer pressure all play serious roles through out the book and what really makes the book hit home is that the characters are teens just like me.
-Ninjanells
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