Hannah Bailey is a senior attending Warsaw Community High School in Warsaw, Indiana. While in school she lives with her grandparents while her dad works off shore. Hannah has lived in Warsaw, Indiana since birth and she firmly beliefs that the town is conservative. Music, art, and writing is her passion. She highly believes in liberal art, and hope to become a filmmaker. She is a hard worker in which she dedicates her time preparing for college and her future; However, in between school and her personal life she finds time to take upon a relationship with her boyfriend, Joel, of two years. Hannah’s boyfriend is her world; she expresses that without him life is useless. With all her dependence on him in school, engaging with her peers is un-compliable. Instead of hanging out with the other teens in her school she prefers to hang with her friends in the liberal department. Many of the students express that Hannah does not suite their expectations as a friend. For example: During the film the school hosted prom the senior prom, while at the prom Hannah stayed distant from the other students.
In The Devil’s Arithmetic, Hannah is a 13 year old girl living in New Rochelle. Hannah’s character changes through the story. At the beginning Hannah was a stubborn, careless, and spoiled girl. Through the end of the story Hannah changes to a new person, due to the events she experiences and lives through.
As people age, they may change due to situations that have an influence on their lives. Through life’s journey, people often face many important decisions in their search for their true identities. During this process, the decisions people are required to make help to define one’s personality and overall character. As people searches for a sense of contentment, other people as well as one’s own internal feelings may alter the path that one takes, unexpectedly leading them to their true identities. In The Bicycle and The Metaphor, by Jillian Horton and Budge Wilson, respectively, both authors use characters who show how internal and external influences such as peer pressure, authority from parental figures, and guilt have the potential to alter
1) According to webmd the rates for girls ages 10-14 has more than doubled to 68 out of 1,000. Common reasons for depression is sometimes when some of the chemicals stop working your brain, and when you are under mental and physical trauma or abuse. Some solutions are antidepressants, talking to someone about problems, and sometimes exercise and activities will help.
The second tape is addressed to Alex Standall, who during their freshmen year, made a list saying that Hannah had the “best ass” in her freshman class. By being labeled with the “best ass” it leads to Hannah being assaulted numerous times.
Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader and Marc Forster’s The Kite Runner explore many aspects of the nature of guilt. Both text’s revolve around the guilt of love. The two texts contrast a sexual love and the love of a friend.
“And Hannah, with warmth, ‘Thank you.’” This was spoken by Hannah Baker as the final words on her final tape. Thirteen Reasons Why is a book about a high schooler named Clay who received a mysterious package one day. He soon finds out that it contains tapes of Hannah Baker,
Hannah Baker was a freshman in highschool when she took her own life. It came as a shock and no one expected it, yet no one noticed the many signs she was leaving that all pointed to suicide. When she left tapes with a list of names explaining that they
In today’s world, the main element contributing to someone’s behavioural growth is external factors: being exposed to different situations, environments and people enables individuals to acquire an understanding of how to live in a society. Adolescence, the transitional phase from a child to an adult, is marked as the main time period where individuals decide the path of their life. Teenagers go through, and are expected to cope with hormonal changes, puberty, social and parental forces, work and school pressures, as well as many conditions and problems. In Budge Wilson’s short story The Metaphor, and Jillian Horton’s short story The Bicycle, the main characters, Hannah and Charlotte, are experiencing the effects of adolescence first hand.
13 Reasons why was published as a book in 2007, 10 years ago. 10 years later, it was produced as a tv show. Both have a lot in common since they are based on the same plot. They are both about a girl that committed suicide and left 13 tapes
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher is a book about a high school student, Hannah Baker, who is telling her story about her own death. Before she commits suicide, she creates thirteen tapes telling her story about her life leading up to her death. Each tape she creates is about
In Jay Asher’s Thirteen Reasons Why, Hannah slowly passes through the three stages of suicide: thinking about ending her life, deciding to commit suicide and then committing it. In the beginning, Hannah was being bullied and becomes depressed; however she still does not think of suicide as an option.
"Two steps behind her, I say her name." "Skye." The novel, Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher ends with one word; Skye. Skye was not only the girl on the bus Clay encountered the night he was listening to the tapes, but was also his middle school crush. He
Banning Fictional Books for Good 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." Fiction has a huge impact on the subject matter of everyday lives. It provokes our subconscious
In our school systems as well as in society in general, it is often questioned whether certain topics should be exposed to people. Children in school are, many times, not allowed to read certain books that are banned due to their content. Sometimes, it is necessary for these essentially taboo