5. Diary Entry

5. Diary Entry

Hey, today I´m going to discuss, which elements of the book I enjoyed and which parts are different from what I expected.

First of all, I'd like to talk about the perspective. It leads you through the story with a perfect balance between Clay's realtime experience and Hannah, who tells her story from the tapes. Secondly, there are the characters, almost all of them are evolving in their own way throughout Hannah's and even Clay's story. Everyone can tell his own story and has an actual background, that can explain their action in the book. Furthermore, I must confess, that this is really the only book without many action elements, that I really liked and enjoyed.

But there is also a thing, I'd consider improvable and that's the role of the school itself. Of course, we have Mr. Porter, who represents the school's actions against bullying, but I think it would be nice to have a closer look at how the school handled bullying before, or even look at other cases, to better understand why the system failed at helping Hannah. Just a few pages telling us about the school's mistakes and not just about the students beside Mr. Porter's final interview with Hannah.

I know there is very little to argue about and maybe you didn't understand what I meant and that's because I think this book is just perfect in almost every way. It teaches you a lot and will have a great impact on its readers.

I hope you liked this post as well.

Tim