Thirteen Reasons Why
Jay Asher
Razorbill
2007
Ms. Hen watched the Netflix show, as everyone else
did this year. She was moved, yes, and saddened yes, and when
she
saw this book at the Little Free Library near where she
lives, she grabbed
it and made it hers. She took a while to read it, but wow,
when she did…
The book is different from the show; there is not much
outside Clay listening
to the tapes and reminiscing. Two narratives drive the story
concurrently, his and Hannah’s. Even though
Ms. Hen knew what would
happen in the end, she still adored this book,
its intensity, its rawness,
it made her glad she is not a young hen
anymore and does not live in that fishbowl called high
school.
Ms. Hen came to the conclusion after reading this novel
that she is glad she does not care what other people think
of her as much as before, because if she did, she would have
ended up like Hannah
many times over. Ms. Hen thinks that youth is a time when we
think
the whole world is watching and judging us, but when time
passes
we should grow up and realize that all the horrors that happen to us
and in the world
are small
and insignificant
and sometimes things don't make any sense,
but there’s nothing we can do
except wake up tomorrow
to face the next day
even if it sucks
and continues to suck
and never seems to get better
we just have to live
and deal with the shit
and hope that something better than shit
will come our way
someday.
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