" Hello, boys and girls. Hannah Baker here. Live and in stereo...No return engagements,no encore. And this time absolutely no requests... I hope you're reasy,because i'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. "
Thirteen reasons why-spelled as Th1rteen r3asons why-is a best selling fiction novel by Jay Asher. The story's protagonist Clay Jensen,receives a box of seven audiotapes made by Hannah-a girl who killed herself a few days back,a girl he harboured a crush on. Thirteen sides of the tapes are recorded, thirteen reasons why she killed herself, thirteen people responsible and Clay is one of them.
It is a touching narrative which focuses on Hannah's death and how Clay tries to understand what happened. As clay goes on this painful journey, we go with him-feel his helplessness,anger and sadness. Every side,every reason focuses on thirteen rude or hurtful incidents which could've been prevented. A little bit of gossip,a snide remark which blend into this 'snowball effect' and push her over the edge. As the story goes on we notice her slow but sure downfall and are privy to secrets which show she made some bad judgements which effected others's lives too. Kept quite when she could've prevented some things from happening.
Hannah is a girl you realize halfway-who has already given up. She reaches a point in her life where she just doesn't care, does self-destructive things, makes an insinceare effort to reach for help and is waiting for her world to collapse around her.
" No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same. "
The story makes us think twice before saying or doing anything that could harm or hurt anybody. It deals well with the issue of how vulnerable a teen or young adult's mind if. There have been some controversies surrounding the book-as to how it's depressing with no hope or faith involved. But i think it's a brutally honest story which doesn't sugarcoat the issues young adults face today.
Stars: *****/5
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