13+Reasons+Why

//Thirteen Reasons Why// by Jay Asher

Emily Friedman, Natalie Calianese, Kayla Masur, and Sydney Moitoza

Reading Schedule:

By November 21: page 69 By November 28: page 149 By December 5: page 232 By December 12: page 288

Our Expectations:

We think the book is going to be very suspenseful and meaningful. Also, it will end intensely. We are expecting more relations between each character and more clues to piece together the puzzle of Hannah Baker's life. The main character, Clay, will also discover more about Hannah while he discovers more about himself.

Page 1:

Clay finds a box and opens it. Inside there are 13 tapes, and he wants to listen to them out of curiosity. The reader also feels curious because they also want to know what the tapes are. The author makes the book mysterious by not telling the reader right away what the tapes were for. The beginning of the book definitely grabbed our attention because the author started out with the conflict quickly and made us ask ourselves many questions.

Questions:

How did no one hear Hannah as she recorded the tapes? What if they did? What would they have done?

Thoughts:

I feel as if the characters on the tapes will be impacted by the tapes in both a positive and negative way. The negative way is that they were a reason that caused Hannah to kill herself. That must make them feel terrible. Although, they will also be impacted positively because they will now learn that your actions can cause hurt someone. Whatever you do can effect someone's lives. In the future, these characters will remember this, and they will always think before they speak.

Our Favorite Quotes:

Emily- "Then, like now, I didn't know they were dying. Then, like now, there were a lot of people around. But what could they have done? Those people standing around the car, trying to calm the driver, waiting for an ambulance to arrive, could they have done anything at all? Or the people who passed Hannah in teh halls, or sat beside her in class, what could they have done? Maybe then, like now, it was already too late" (Asher 165).

Sydney Moitoza- "No, I didn't push her away. I didn't add to her pain or do anything to hurt her. Instead, I left her alone in that room. The only person who might've been able to reach out and save her from herself. To pull her back from wherever she was heading. (Asher 220)

Natalie- "But he didn't answer. He didn't need to. Because at that moment, I saw him...standing right outside the office window. Marcus Cooley"(Asher 131).

Kayla- "I was there for you, Hannah. You could have reached out but you didn't. You chose this. You had a choice and you pushed be away. I would have helped you. I wanted to help you" (Asher 217).

Movie Casting: Hannah Baker- Emily Osment Why: She played in the movie //Cyberbully//, and she was the victim. In this story we thought that Hannah Baker was also the victim because of her stories and experiences she had went through.

Justin: Zac Effron Why: He was always the popular guy in the movies and shows he starred in, and that is what Justin was in the book.

Jessica Davis (Justin's girlfriend): Vanessa Hudgens Why: