Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers thirteen cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush who committed suicide two weeks earlier.On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.
Through Hannah and Clay's dual narratives, debut author Jay Asher weaves an intricate and heartrending story of confusion and desperation that will deeply affect teen readers.
I never thought that reading a book about suicide will actually make me get away from the thought. I believe that this book is phenomenal! The way darkness and hope in their symbolic meanings both appear clear in every page in this book.
It is as if Jay Asher is creating a thick layer of mist and suddenly, just when the end comes, he clears everything in a burst of light. It is so intense the feeling of reading such book; a book that makes you sad and happy and hopeful and full of awareness because you know that suicide is never the solution. It is due to Hannah Baker that the reader might see that facing life is much more important than giving up. It is true that she gave up but it is never inevitable to follow her lead. Her story was a lesson we are all required to comprehend and look into very well.
Clay was a great character too. He was faint at the beginning, but towards the end, he starts to compel the reader towards him. The characters are all full of flaws which makes the book even more credible. Though Hannah made it very clear that Clay was the perfect guy with a great reputation, the writer in Clay's body opposed that in a spontaneous way giving the reader an image; flawlessness is a portion of perfection and that is not what humans are made for. Humans are made for mistakes - we are made to make Hannah's mistake. The difference is, in her situation, no one helped her but in our, we have her story to make us see the light.
"It is a twist that talks directly to our souls with a lesson ... so we better hear you, Hannah!"
PS. You can hear the Hannah Baker tapes over YouTube - Go do that. they're great to hear!
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