Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Thirteen Reasons Why: Free Choice

Reading Thirteen Reasons Why, has made me think about things i normally don't. Bullying,high school, clicks, good girl, or the school slut i figured after graduating i was out of all of that, that was a part of life you went through and to pray you come out ok. Do we think about the people we can affect with our words or actions?  Some people have said that Hannah just sounds like a drama queen and so far what we have read aren't big enough issues for you to kill yourself over, and maybe they aren't but to Hannah they were, every situation depends on the person not if there reasoning for what they did was good enough by our standards. Kids can be horrible but because they are young they don't understand the affects they may have on someone. Like the article we read Monday in class she was only 13, they were only in middle school but to her those were the people that decided what other people thought of her. I was watching a lifetime movie the other day, it was based on true events of a case where there was three best friends and two of them killed there third best friend because of a rumor that got started by someone saying this girl had slept with there boyfriends. Yes a RUMOR and they killed one of there best friends over it because of jealousy. Even if Thirteen Reasons Why isn't your kind of book, it is definitely a book people should read it tells a story of millions of kids who are going through the same thing.

1 comment:

  1. Very astute blog, Austyn. I agree that this is a story that needs to be told. Whether or not we think Hannah had cause for such a drastic action, I think we can agree that she did have real reasons to feel bad about herself.

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