INTRODUCTION:-
“You can’t st■p the future.
You can’t rew▌►►nd the past. The only way to learn the secret……..is to press pl►y.”(Asher, Cover Page)
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“Thirteen reasons
why” is a young adult novel written in 2007 by Jay Asher. It is the story
of young high school student as she descends into despair brought on by
betrayal and bullying, culminating with her suicide. She details the thirteen
reason why in an audio diary which was mailed to a friend 2 week after her
death. “The rules are pretty simple. There are only two. Rule number one:
you listen. Number two: you pass it on”. (Asher, 2016:8)
“Thirteen reasons why” has received
recognition and awards from several young adult literary associations and the
paperback edition reached ♯ 1 on the New York Times best seller list in July
2011. A screen play was written, based on the original release of the book,
that become the basis of the dramatic television series thirteen reason why
released through Netflix on March 31, 2017. The screenplay
contains several deviations from the name changes, plot element and character
personalities and there involves so many controversy about the suicide issues
on teenager.
Who
is Teenager:-
“Teenagers mean
a person aged between 13 and 19 years”. (Oxford Mini Dictionary: 157) puberty
and adolescence is the name for this transition period from childhood to
adulthood. In the United States, kids and teens from the ages from the ages of
14-18 typically go to high school. In the United Kingdom (u k) teenagers and
non-teens are mixed in secondary school. Teenagers attending secondary school
(high school in the us) generally graduate at the age of 16 or19 sexual
attraction to teenagers is called ephebophillia.
“This story,
though, was different from any I’d worked on before. For one, it wasn’t a
comedy. Two, it was from a teen perspective. Three, it was from male and female
teen perspectives.” (Asher: Thirteen
Reason Why) In this jay Asher highlight the point about teenager problem in high
school and with their parents. It stated by Katherine Langford and Dylan Minnettes
talk show debut that,” I play the character Hannah braker who’s 17 years old
and she committed suicide and leave tapes why she should be done this and clay
who listen tapes and decided why she is done this.” (The Ellen Show)
Analysis
of Categorization in Novel:-
“This book
is so emotional: you can feel Hannah’s anger, frustration, and sadness as you
listen to the tapes. I couldn’t put it down.”(Madison:
Asher) clay Jansen is breezing through high school relatively drama-free, may
be because his nose is usually buried in his schoolbooks. He upset by the
recent death of Hannah baker but for the most part except for Hannah’s empty
desk, his life is business as usual. Until, that is he finds Hannah’s package
on his porch. so here in this novel we categorization in three which as
follows:
a)
Psychological
Thriller Novel:-
In this novel, we can recognize Hannah’s dark
world as she sees it on the night before her death, when she records the tapes.
She takes you on psychological thrill ride that ends with her giving in to her
despair. Her story is so compelling so full of bitter twists, that most readers
report devouring this book at breakneck speed. We are also driven forward by a
need to see if Hannah is justified in blaming these people for her tragic
decision. Clay is experiencing this same thing but with a lot more at stake. He
needs to find out why he’s on Hannah’s tapes. “It examines the small
aggressions we commit that cause unthinkable pain, and the larger ones that
become even more painful when we are told we must move on from them”. (Reilly
Kaitlin)
b)
Coming Of Age:-
All this can
be seen as a coming of age for clay. He has to move out of his comfort zone and
grow as a person if he’s going to survive these tapes make him feel like he need to do the right
thing in the world from now on. This means not listening to rumors or caring
what others think about who he chooses to hang out with a date .But it also means
confronting the not so pretty reality of his teenager world. No pressure,
right? Hence the pounding headache he sport throughout his grim listening
adventure.
Hannah reveals a
dark and threatening world that was right there alongside clay’s peaceful happy
one. By the end of these tapes, the two worlds are shows to one, and clay will
never be the same . “Wonderfully realistic in his writing, Asher offers
teens and parents alike a great story on an important topic.”(Asher: Green
Bay Press-Gazette) Basically, it’s learned by this novel that, Even if we don’t
have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go
from there.
c)
Tragedy:-
“A spectacular first novel. Jay Asher tells
his story with such honesty and simplicity that the tragedy feels shatteringly
real.” (Dordon Korman, Auther of Son of
the Mob and Jake, Reinvented; Thirteen Reasons Why) We know from the very
beginning that this story is a tragedy. Hence, it ends with the death of our
protagonist. But we should remember that Hannah’s tragic death isn’t in vain:
in the end, it helps clay and another character who is defines in novel become
a more sensitive, caring individual. This tragic ending leads to a happy new
beginning. One important change in novel after its 10th Anniversary
that is, Jay Asher gives a chance to Hannah baker and clay relationship to
Hannah’s alive. “When her parents came home, she was unconscious. From the
pills. But they took her to a hospital and pumped her stomach and they saved
her.” (Asher)
Teenager
Problem:-
The
life goes through much kind of circumstances, the age decided how we take these
in our life there are three main age’s childhood, adolescence and old.
Childhood and old has one similarity is that both needs care and wants attention
of loved ones but dissimilarity is that old has got its experienced
certification but childhood is beginning of this course. All these ages have
their importance in life among all there is one age which comes between of
childhood and adolescence i.e. teenager.
Actually a person in this age can hardly
decide whether he is still a child or he is mature, that is why he thoughts his
decisions are right and what he does is right, so, teenager problem’s as follows:-
a)
Suicide:-
Today
in the world most of teenager suicide because of depression and end of life
hope thirteen reasons why also highlight these kind of situations and problems.
There is some centimes for which we can
recognized that one person having intention of suicide roe instance person talk
about burden, pain and having no reasons to live, behavior, mood, health
factor, environment factors and historical factor etc.
Suicide creeps into every line of 13 reasons
why, which center on the audio- tapes suicide note of teenager Hannah baker. We
listen along with clay Jansen Hannah traces her high school days, from first
kiss to last words. What starts as occasional thoughts of suicide turn to solid
plans and as we know from the beginning a fatal overdose of pills. We
don’t see clay long enough after he
listens to the tapes to know exactly how they change him but the ending gives
us something to go on, he reaches out to skeye miller, a girl portrayed as a
possible suicide risk.
b)
Guilt and Blame
of Mind:-
Hannah baker isn’t
kidding around where this point is concerned. No double about it, the tapes in
13 reasons why are a huge guilt trip- she admits this freely she wants her
listeners to feel bad about the way they treats her and to treat people better
in the future. But as much as she makes other people feel guilty, she feels
responsible for Jessica’s rape, and for the boy who’s killed after jenny runs
down a stop sign she doesn’t trust herself to do the right thing anymore than
she trusts the people and the tapes. Her guilt over her role in these crimes
seems to drive Hannah over the edge.
c)
Rumor:-
Rumor mongering is part
of every high school experience. Hannah doesn’t delve into her pre-high school
past but she does hint that she had a problem with her reputation in middle
school. She considers her new high school in a new town a fresh start.
Unfortunately, she becomes a target for rumors almost instantly at her new
school and once the rumors start, they just keep growing. This point to a
controversial issue in the novel Hannah, a clear victim of rumors, leaves
behind even more rumors in her tapes. This is a real problem when we think
about characters being accused of serious illegal activity, particularly Bruce,
Tyler, Justin and Jenny.
d)
Lack of loyalty
with Others:-
“Loyalty” is
noticeably absent from this story characters at least as they’re depicted by
clay and Hannah rarely get past each other’s reputations and surface
attributes. Tony and clay do develop a sense of loyalty to Hannah after
listening to the tapes, but it’s clear that Hannah feels betrayed by everyone
around her peers, parents and teachers. But it’s important to remember that
Hannah has betrayed herself too. She sex with Bryce, the guy who allegedly
raped Jessica and chronically abuses his peers. Today’s teenager think that,
betrayal is one kind of wisdom game or fashion but they are not understand what
means of that and who its affect another life which does not notice people’s
emotions and thought so, this issue raise in this novel.
e)
Lake of Attentions
Of Parents:-
Parents one of the most important part of
teenager and that’s why must given attention to their children so, one of the
most tragic elements of Hannah’s story is how oblivious her parents were to her
situation preoccupied with running their store, Hannah’s parent had no idea she
was bullied by her peers, spread about their daughter. They also unaware that
Hannah had suicide ideation and depression. Their cluelessness persisted until
the very end of Hannah’s life.
Hannah’s parent was not only ones oblivious
to the lives of their children. Most the parents in the story were either
willfully uninvolved in their children’s lives or tried to by their children
lives or tried to by their children. In that novel if any parent asked about
their activities than, they said that “school project” (Asher: 16)
f)
Abuse female body:-
In this novel, boys attempt to control and
abuse the bodies of Hanna and the other girls. Hannah first mentions this
treatment during the incident with Bryce at blue spot liquor when he smacked
her butt. Because Alex named her “best ass in the freshman class” Asher: 48) Bryce
felt entitled to touch and control Hannah’s body when Hannah rejected him,
Bryce forcibly, “I’m only playing, Hannah” (Asher: 80) To Hannah, this
demonstrated that Bryce saw her as his play toy an object for his amusement.
Other incidences are Jessica rape and Hannah encounter in hot tub. Bryce, Zach,
Alex, Tyler and Marcus all tried to subjugate control and manipulate Hannah and
her body in various ways thought the novel. So, today teenagers especially boys
should know about to respect woman.
g)
Frustration And
Inhumanity of teenagers:-
Everything in
this novel has inhumanity and painful edge to it, Hannah’s tone on the tapes
could even be described as violent- she is trying to inflict pain on her
listeners. Her tapes reveal that her world is a dangerous place. Many of the
critical events she describes focus on extreme incidents of violence, including
a possible rape and death of a high school boy. But thirteen reasons why
addresses another kind of violence often forgotten in young adult literature:
violence against oneself. Hannah’s inability to deal with the cruel world
around her leads to the ultimate act of violence when she taken her own life.
h)
Choices and
Decisions:-
Choices and
decisions is one of the importance problems in teenager life. The choices that
the people on Hannah’s choices are pretty impotent, too. Even when they’re good
choices like singing up for a poetry class, they always seem to turn out badly.
But as her state of mind deteriorates toward the end of the novel, Hannah
starts making choices that she knows aren’t good for her. Part of the reasons
she kills herself might even be that she’s unable to live with some of choices
she makes in the final weeks of her life. Brian yorkey, creator, executive
producer said that, “People done certain think which affected their life” (Jessica
Shaw: Netflix)
g) Friendship and Bad Company:-
Friendship is more importance in teenager life.
It’s give encouragement, enjoyment and try new things so friendship important, it’s
true. But whom as we get example of Hannah life that we realized that, she
always try somebody but she always try to be friend, someone and trust somebody
but she could not get it. Like Jessica Davis, Counrtney Crismen and Jenny Kurtz
one by one proof that they are not trustworthy and that’s why she fill
loneliness or alone in the school or world so she is depressed and no hope for life.
So choices of friends and who to be friend both is impotents point in life.
it’s one of the important word of teenager.
i)
Education
system and Responsibilities:-
Education
is the basic need of the children. Education helps to meaning and understands
about life. In thirteen reasons why, the thirteenth to receive the tapes was
Mr. Porter, the temporary school counselor. Hannah secretly recorded a
conversation they had, in which she expressed a desired to end her life
overwhelmed that if she was unwilling to press charges against the boy she
should just try to move on so, this novel learned to reader that, education
system is part of our life. Teachers must understand and solve problems of the
students. Teachers must give right advice or suggestion to the student which
helps to build their life. They should discussion with students about their
work and problem and try to solve it.
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