“When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.” Jay Asher expresses this very evidently all throughout his novel, 13 Reasons Why. In the story of a girl named Hannah who had committed suicide and creepily shipped cassette tapes to the 13 people who had caused her to kill herself. I’d recommend this book to anyone because of it’s expression of the things that we all think, because it tells a great story, and finally because it teaches many lessons.
First and foremost, I feel as if anyone can relate to the stories in the cassette tapes. The stories range from stalkers to teachers on her list of people that caused her to end her life. Although it’s in a cruel way to portray it Jay Asher really showed us how to be aware of how things add up. That’s something that all of us could learn and should be in tune with.
Secondly, the story itself is amazing to imagine about. Just think of what you would do if a package was sent to you from someone who had killed themselves. The though personally gives me chills.
Justin Barron
ReplyDeleteThe strongest part of Winston’s argument is when he talks about how real it actually is. He mentions that the book if very realistic in the fact that it is a girl who committed suicide because of thirteen people. I think that this is the strongest part of Winnie’s argument because he really understands how real the situation is. He knows that this situation could happen anywhere and anytime.
The weakest part of his argument is that he does not describe the book enough. Winston does not go into enough depth while explaining the book and trying to convince me to read it. He kind of just summarizes the overall picture of the book being that it is about a girl who commits suicide and sends out cassette tapes to the people who made her want to kill herself. If he could expand more on each reasoning of why it was a great story then that would have been helpful.
Personally I don't think I would read a book like this because I am not very interested in reading about a girl who commits suicide, but if I was interested in books like this one then yes I would read it based Winston’s description. Although Winston’s explanation is short and tells you what you need to know about the book and it could convince someone who is interested in these types of books to read it. Winston’s arguments would make it much easier for a reader to decide to pick up this book and get hooked to it.