13 People Who Made The WRONG Decision

Cassette 5: Side A. Clay decided to leave Rosie's diner. As he left, Tony told him to get inside his car and when he did Tony said he had the second set of tapes. Clay began listening. 

THIS TAPE WAS ABOUT HIM!

 But, as a surprise, Hannah explained that he was so nice to her. At the party, they started kissing but then stopped because Hannah began to cry. She had gone to the party to meet Clay Jensen because she had never heard ANYTHING bad about him. Hannah explained that the reason that she cried was because she remembered all the people who had changed her reputation and they haunted her life. Using a voice with so much kindness--something he had never heard before-- Hannah said that she had put him on the tapes to explain herself and that without him in the story, she couldn't continue to the next part.

On the next tape, Cassette 5: Side B, Hannah went home and wrote a list of all the people who hurt her and crossed some people out until she was left with 13 people. 13 REASONS WHY she had a different life. And, on the tapes, she told what had happened in the party after Clay left. Jessica Davis and Justin Fooley had too much to drink and they went to the room that Hannah was in. Justin saw that Jessica was too drunk and he tucked her in so she would rest and then left. Hannah stood up to leave and saw that Justin and someone else were talking outside of the room. That "someone else" entered and she got inside a closet. Sadly, the boy raped Jessica Davis. Hannah felt responsible for it.

As Tony and Clay drove around, Tony finally said why he had the tapes.

Hannah went to give him her bicycle as a gift and asked to borrow a voice recorder to put on tapes. Tony gave her these things and the next day he received the recorded tapes, the 2nd set. He called Hannah´s parents desperately and no one knew where she was.

Then, Tony and Clay played Cassette 6: Side A. This story begins when Jenny Kurltz, a cheerleader, gave Hannah a ride from the party. As they were driving through, Jenny hit a stop sign and it fell over. Hannah insisted that Jenny wouldn't drive and it pissed her off so she told Hannah to get out of the car. Hannah began walking through the rain. She reached a gas station and called the police to tell them about the stop sign but they said that it had already been reported. The next day she found out that it wasn't a knocked sign that they reported but an accident. After Hannah and Jenny had left, a delivery boy and an old man had a car crash because the stop sign wasn't visible. The boy, who also went to the same school as the others, died. The day of the funeral Hannah decided not to go and instead she had time to think about how her own funeral would be.

As Hannah began Clay's tape, she said something that I can connect to real life. How she wanted to know Clay just to meet him.

“And that’s why I wanted to know him better. Because everything I heard—and I mean everything!—was good. It was one of those things where, once I noticed it, I couldn’t stop noticing it." (Asher 105).

 I think that this example of how she noticed him is more of an excuse to why she wanted to meet Clay. As she said first, "Everything I heard—and I mean everything!—was good". Hannah had gone through so much pain and sadness that she just needed to see for herself how happy can a good person be. For example, I relate this to how people who don't have enough money to have a "comfortable" life sometimes think of how it would feel to be a "rich" person. Some even become so obsessed that waste their leftover money on casinos or have other gambling issues.

Hannah, at that point, already felt that she was helpless. Her life was just too messed up for anything to get better. If anything, things would stay the same instead of getting worse. But, of course, that didn't happen. When she was hiding in the closet Hannah thought,

“Like things had been out of control for so long that whatever I did hardly mattered anymore. And I couldn’t stand all the emotions anymore. I wanted the world to stop…to end".

Hannah's life was already considering suicide as the only exit to her awful life. Some people may argue that people who commit suicide are victims of their bullies. I think differently, these people are their own victims. If people are suicidal they must talk to someone or stay out of the scenarios where you know that you can get hurt. Hannah should change schools or talk to a counselor for her life to stop having these issues.

13 REASONS WHY has twists and turns on every chapter that has given me a new outlook on life. As I have said before on previous posts, even the smallest act of kindness or rudeness can change someone's life and it is up to us to determine which kind of act we want to live by. Overall I feel overwhelmed by this book since it has such strong messages and topics that are hard to reflect on. This new THEME about making the right decisions has made me realize how important it is to always think of others and reacting in the best way. I cannot wait to read what will happen next!

Always Help Others in any way you can!

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