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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Just awful. I think I'm too old to appreciate the things that were supposed to have pushed the main character to suicide. She just seems like a childish brat to me. ( ) I've been stewing on this one for about a week. There were a few things about it that I loved, and a few things that really bothered me. Let's start with what I loved: 1. I feel like this book really drives home the idea that all actions big or small will impact lives and might escalate in ways that we don't always realize. 2. It also drives home the fact that sexism, objectification, abuse, and expectations of women are dangerous. 3. Almost every character has to deal with the fact that they could have (and in some cases should have) handled things differently, but made the very human, imperfect choice not to. 4. The fact that one of those imperfect characters is an adult illustrates to teen readers that learning life lessons doesn't stop after high school. 5. Clay walks away from the tapes with the understanding that he is not responsible for Hannah's choice and that he can not change the past, but that he can use what he has learned from it to help others in the future. Things I hated: 1. I find the concept of the tapes incredibly presumptuous. People commit suicide because they don't believe they have a reason to live, not to teach a lesson. 2. Hannah's Depression is described as a series of reactions. Depression is a mental illness, not a reaction. Overall I think this book is worth reading and it has a lot to offer. It's thought provoking and it will get teens thinking and hopefully talking about a lot of important things, but it misses the mark on some of the more important issues.
Clay Jensen receives a package of tapes in the mail with no return address from one of his classmates Hannah baker who had killed herself two weeks before as he struggles to hear the tapes of Hannah he also follows this map that Hannah had put in his locker a week before she committed Suicide as clay travels star to star he hears the stories of people who have hurt Hannah. And drove her to kill herself you only hear the tapes if you had something to do with it so if you don't pass the tapes on they will be release to everyone clay listens to the tapes and he fails to see who he can trust person by person clay has some type of incounterment with everyone else on the tapes and trays to help Hannah out with the last tape she couldn't get around to AwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death. No library descriptions found.
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