Thursday, September 11, 2014

THIRTEEN REASONS WHY 

When I first started reading this book I thought the point of view and the characters would be totally different, but I've only read less than half of the book I'm glad its not what I expected. The main character Clay Jensen is very popular in his school, but he now has to keep half of his life a secret. 

Hannah Baker, a girl Clay barely knew, commits suicide, but before she does she leaves everyone she thinks lead her to killing herself some tapes. These tapes are what exactly what the person did to her and why it made her feel horrible, but Clay has no idea what he did wrong. He is so obsessed with making people like him,and makes sure he pleases people."And what about me? What did I do? How will Hannah say that I scarred her? Because I have no idea. And after people hear about it, what are they going to think when they see me? Some of them, a least two of them, already know why I'm on here. Do they see me differently now?"(page 41) This is when you know Clay does care what EVERYONE  thinks of him. I don't really know if that's a good or bad quality to have, being nice to people is a good thing, but the way Clay looks at it is kind of too much.

Hes being very secretive, but I can understand why. There is this one scene where he goes over a friends for a little I guess just to see each other and the only thing he could think about is what he just listen to, Hannah's tape, but he could not say a thing to his friend, there could be a lot of bad things that  could come out if he decides to tell him or just any person in  general. There was also another scene where he is listening to the tape so quietly with some headphones and when his mom comes in Clay gets so scared, he doesn't even tell his mom what it is and tries to get her out of the room.
He convinces his mom its just a school project. I can get why Clay makes the decisions, its just because he is very scarred of what will happen. He kind of reminds me of Harriet The spy because he is very secretive and goes around places just like Harriet. Over all Clay is okay for being the main character. 
       
        

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