Tim reads 13RW

2. Themes Hey, today we're going to discuss a major theme in 13 Reasons Why . A theme is an idea in a fictional literary work, for example, "the contrast between love and hate " in Romeo and Juliet. It's important, that topics are something entirely different from themes, topics describe a general subject, that is treated by a book or a text. The theme we're going to discuss is death.  This theme is very relevant in the book because it's Hannah's death that changes the lives of so many characters in the book, in fact, it's the theme that makes 13 Reasons Why so emotional and sad. Of course, there are other very important themes in the book, like friendship or identity, but none of them is as frightening and terrible as the death of a young girl who was full of excitement about her life. Everything in the book, that's told by Hannah leads to her death or suicide and it's Clay, who wants to find out why. In addition to this, death always c...

1. Perspective Hey guys and welcome to my first post about how "13 Reasons Why" is narrated and which perspectives are used to tell the story. Which perspective is used? If you read 13 reasons Why you quickly recognize, that Clay narrates the story from his perspective. You can see this, because words like "I"  or "we" are used outside of "quotation marks". But there is a second narrator, Hannah Baker, who talks in first-perspective too. She is the voice recorded on the tapes and tells a part of the story. So Clay doesn't describe what he hears, Hannah speaks for herself without question marks and it feels like we're sitting right next to Clay hearing the recording and telling us what he experiences, whereas Hannah tells her Story. Why did the author use this method? A huge part of the story are Hannah's feelings and her suffering, this can only be expressed powerful, if Hannah tells the story herself, without distracti...

Welcome to my new blog Hello and welcome to my new blog. Here, I'm going to share my thoughts about 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher, it's a book that's different from everything that I've ever read before. A book that talks about everything: friendship, identity, death, suicide and a book that tries to explain what it means to be abused and bullied. It going to be tough but I hope you can learn something. I'm going to upload texts about different topics and themes in the book. Enjoy homeschooling and stay healthy Tim