13 Reasons Why

SPOILER ALERT ! IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THIS BOOK AND ARE GOING TO THEN DO NOT READ !

Alright for this blog i decided to list the 13 reasons or people and how they were took part in Hannah Barkers suicide.

1. Justin Foley - Hannah's first kiss came from this boy and his exaggeration of this kiss made her reputation fall.
2. Alex Standall - This kid has a "who's hot and who's not" list and under Hannah's name is listed"Hottest Ass in the Freshman Class"
3. Jessica Davis - Because of Alex's list, this girl was jealous that Hannah was put on the list and she was not. Jessica stopped being friends with Hannah because she had a crush on alex.
4. Tyler Down - Basically a creep, this kid tries taking pictures of her through Hannah's window. Makes her feel insecure. 
5. Courtney Crimsen - this was the girl who tries to catch tyler in the act of the pictures. Hannah finds out that Courtney follows along with all the false rumors.
6. Marcus Cooley - Hannah's Valentines Day date. he went on the date as a joke and it hurt Hannah because she thought it was serious
7. Zach Dempsey - Im not sure why actually. haha
8. Ryan Shaver - school newspaper publisher, he published one of Hannah's personal poems to the paper.
9. Clay Jensen -Hannah's love, he felt like it was his fault not understanding Hannah correctly
10. Justin Foley - Justin was involved in letting Brice rape Jessica while Hannah hid in fear.
11. Jenny Kurts - a girl who got in an accident and took out a stop sign. several people got hurt and even killed because jenny didn't report the accident.
12. Bryce Walker - Hannah had sex with him after a party but felt like he used her
13. Mr. Porter - Hannah's counselor who gave bad advice and let her leave his office at her suicidal state

Those are the 13 reasons that lead up to Hannah Barkers suicide. This book was great !

Free Response

After reading the next hundred or so pages in this book i came to realize how easy my life is compared to others life back in the older times. And how much small every day things can affect your life. In the book, nick probably was doing things to influence his actions at school. Such as playing first person shooters in video games or watching violent television shows. All of these things are proven to affect around 75% of the school shootings that happen in America.  But it makes me thankful the precautions we take to make sure nothing like this happens again. Schools are hiring security officers left and right to help protect the students from incidents like this from happening.

HATE LIST

The main character, Valerie, in the book called Hate List is faced with a very difficult situation in the book. Valerie has to make the decision if she should go back to school and face her fears and classmates head on or if she should transfer to another school and start life a new. The school board was trying to make the decision if she should even be let back into the school. I think that she should be aloud back into Garmin High School because she only shot someone because she was trying to save further harm from happening. Her boyfriend Nick was the one who decided to take the list a little too seriously and tried shooting everyone on the list. After he accidentally shot Valerie he took the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Technically she was only involved in making the list. She was not really involved into the shooting so to speak. I think she should go back to the school and face her fears head on also. Word of the shooting would spread to different schools and if she transferred to another school it would be twice as hard making new friends than keeping the friends she still has at Garmin.

Vocab Booklets

So last friday we were given a gift in class. That gift was a vocabulary booklet. The booklet is used to be on you at all times so when you hear or come across a cool new word you can write the new word down in your booklet along with the definition and a picture of what the word means. In my eyes the best part of the booklet is getting to draw the picture of the cool new word. I love art and i am not a big fan of reading so getting to look and draw the picture of what the word looks like or means helps me learn/understand it a lot easier. End of blog