| | It's a novel by Jay Archer. I picked it up one day because I thought it was interesting, it sounded good to me and I had the money so why not? Little did I know that I was going to get involved in the thirteen reasons a girl chose to take her own life. Hannah Baker is a sophmore in high school and has discovered that there were connections between some of the students she had to endure. She recorded the reasons, naming the people that contributed to her decision to die.
We pick up the story when Clay Jenson collects the family mail one afternoon. He wanders the city over the course of the evening, following Hannah's directions, listening to her words as she truthfully tells her story. Clay doesn't want to listen, to think of what could have been, but he does. Because once you open a box of tapes, once you listen to the first one, you have to hear them all. You have know how the story ends.
Once I got to the tape with Clay on it, it was all downhill. I cried through to the end of the book. I cried for a life lost, for hopes killed, for dreams that never had a chance. I cried because she couldn't see past her pain. Everyone should read this novel, for the simple reason that Hannah teaches something. She teaches us that every action has repricusions. Every word spoken carries impact. We need to remember her lessons, even if she is a fictional character from a novel, perhaps especially so.
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