2. Theme

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 changes the atmosphere of the story, it makes it "darker" or more serious and dramatic when someone's life ends. As we saw in the book "The Dead Poets Society", Neils

death changed everything and the story suddenly became much more serious. And it's the same with 13 Reasons Why.

To put it in a nutshell, the theme "death" is very important for the story, because it has a very intense impact on the characters, which leads to their partly disturbing behavior. The book just wouldn't work if there was no such theme, that is so dramatic and shocking.

See you!!

Tim