Friday, 19 December 2014,09:08
First summary for novel.
So this one is an artwork from Jay Asher called Thirteen Reasons Why and is quite known.
Thirteen Reasons Why explains about a girl named Hannah Baker who committed suicide 2 weeks ago after Clay Jensen, the narrator, had a crush on her.
The novel begins as Clay Jensen mailed a package to Jenny. Soon we will find out that the package contains a total of seven cassette tapes regarding the reasons why she attempted suicide, also called as a suicide note.
One day after a tiring day at school, Clay comes home only to find a mysterious package on his bed which has his name written on it. On the first tape, Hannah tells that these tapes contain 13 reasons of why she attempted suicide and that each reason is somehow linked to one person. So basically there are 13 names on these tapes. She also tells to each of these listeners to mail the next person on her list and that if one of them ignore this command, a copy of the recordings will be published publicly. Beside the tapes, there is a map which the listener can physically visit the places as she tells her story.
Clay was confused as he didn't remember doing any perpetration to Hannah. As clay listens to the first tape, side A, reason 1, she tells about a guy named Justin Foley, her first kiss. Unfortunately, Justin made a big fuzz telling the whole school that they did more than just kissing therefore Hannah was called a whore and so on.
First tape, side B, reason 2, was about Alex Standall who spoiled
the friendship between Hannah and Jessica Davis by voting Hannah as "Best
Ass of the Freshman Class". Second tape, side A, reason 3, was about
Jessica Davis herself for she was upset by the case and end up hitting Hannah,
leaving a scar on her forehead.
Second tape, side B, reason 4, Hannah calls Tyler Down as a Peeping Tom as he allegedly took Hannah's pictured through her window.
Third tape, side A, reason 5, Hannah tells about Courtney Crimson who is a perfect popular girl at school was actually completely fake and started a rumour how Hannah had sex toys in her bedroom.
As Clay was listening to the recordings, he gets on the city bus and bumps into his middle school crush, Skye Miller. They exchanged a few words and Clay got off the bus. Outside Tyler Down's house, as how Hannah tells him to. He then runs into Marcus Cooley who once invited Clay to throw a rock at Tyler's window. He learns that Marcus is also on one of those tapes therefore he is guilty for something too.
Back
to the third tape, side B, reason 6. After being matched up with Hannah on a
Valentine's Day survey, Marcus tried to make a move on her in a booth at
Rosie's Diner. Hannah didn't favour it and she had to push him off onto the
floor to make him stop.
Fourth
tape, side A, reason 7. Hannah starts telling about how Zach Dempsey stole all
the encouragement notes left for Hannah by her classmates in Peer
Communications class for he was rejected trying to comfort Hannah after the
incident with Marcus.
Fourth tape, side B, reason 8, Hannah tells how she was disappointed of Ryan Shaver, the guy she met in poetry class whom she trusted in, cruelly published a personal poem of hers, leading to more ridicule for Hannah.
Clay leaves Rosie's and found Tony outside waiting in his car. Tony tells him that he is the one holding the second set of tapes, the ones that will be released to the public if Clay's tapes aren't passed on according to Hannah's wishes. Clay was full of questions but Tony refuses to answer them until Clay listens to the next tape.
As he wish, Clay listens to the fifth tape, side A, reason 9. The tape features him and she tells that Clay has nothing to do with her suicide and that Clay was actually really nice to her. Clay also confessed his feelings towards Hannah and they kissed. Clay felt helpless and guilty as he would've helped Hannah with her problems if she could have just told them.
Clay moves on to the fifth tape, side B, reason 10. Justin Foley is back on tape. Hannah tells that she knows Justin let Bryce Walker have sex to Jessica while she was unconscious.
Tony then told Clay that on the day of Hannah's death, he found the tapes waiting for him when he got home from school. As soon as he realized what Hannah was up to, he tried to call her parents but it was too late. Since then, he follows people the people on the list making sure all of them follow Hannah's instructions.
Clay then inserts the sixth tape, side A, for reason 11. Jenny Kurtz who offered Hannah a ride home hit a stop sign with her car and refuses to report the incident. Later on, there was a fatal accident at the exact same stop sign. Side B, reason 12, Bryce Walker started to touch Hannah sexually in a hot-tub, Hannah then lets Bryce whom she despised, have sex with her.
For the last one, the seventh tape, Mr Porter, her counselor, didn't take her seriously when she mentioned about suicidal, and let her move on leaving his office without giving any help.
The novel ends with Clay going to school calling Skye Miller, his crush whom he stumbled into on the bus, after mailing the package to Jenny.
Vocabulary obtained
- Serrated - having a notched edge or sawlike teeth
- Ridicule - speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing
- Anthology - a book or other collection of selected writings by various authors, usually in the same literary form, of the same period, or the same subject.
- Absurdity - the state or quality of being absurd (ridiculous)
- Commotion - a state of confused and noisy disturbance
- Staggered - to walk or move unsteadily, uneven.
- Grating - sounding harsh and unpleasant
- Orientation - the determination of the relative position of something or someone
- Decipher - finding out the meaning of something
- Contemplate - reflect deeply on a subject
- Diminish - decrease in size, extent on range
- Avert - to turn away or aside
- Indication - something that serves to indicate or suggest
- Petty - contemptibly narrow in outlook
- Bluff - pretend that your position is stronger than it really is
- Stifle - smother or suppress
- Curb - an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones
- Chauffeur - a man paid to drive a privately owned car
- Flinch - draw back, as with fear of pain
- Juvenile - of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people
- Subtlety - the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze
- Vouch - give personal assurance, guarantee
- Intriguing - capable of arousing interest or curiosity
- Keg - small cask or barrel
- Ornate - marked by complexity and richness of detail
- Meander - a bend or curve, as in a stream or river
- Melodramatic - having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama
- Spew - eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical
- Snicker - a disrespectful laugh
- Berserk - frenzied as if possessed by a demon, angry
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Friday, 19 December 2014,09:08
First summary for novel.
So this one is an artwork from Jay Asher called Thirteen Reasons Why and is quite known.
Thirteen Reasons Why explains about a girl named Hannah Baker who committed suicide 2 weeks ago after Clay Jensen, the narrator, had a crush on her.
The novel begins as Clay Jensen mailed a package to Jenny. Soon we will find out that the package contains a total of seven cassette tapes regarding the reasons why she attempted suicide, also called as a suicide note.
One day after a tiring day at school, Clay comes home only to find a mysterious package on his bed which has his name written on it. On the first tape, Hannah tells that these tapes contain 13 reasons of why she attempted suicide and that each reason is somehow linked to one person. So basically there are 13 names on these tapes. She also tells to each of these listeners to mail the next person on her list and that if one of them ignore this command, a copy of the recordings will be published publicly. Beside the tapes, there is a map which the listener can physically visit the places as she tells her story.
Clay was confused as he didn't remember doing any perpetration to Hannah. As clay listens to the first tape, side A, reason 1, she tells about a guy named Justin Foley, her first kiss. Unfortunately, Justin made a big fuzz telling the whole school that they did more than just kissing therefore Hannah was called a whore and so on.
First tape, side B, reason 2, was about Alex Standall who spoiled
the friendship between Hannah and Jessica Davis by voting Hannah as "Best
Ass of the Freshman Class". Second tape, side A, reason 3, was about
Jessica Davis herself for she was upset by the case and end up hitting Hannah,
leaving a scar on her forehead.
Second tape, side B, reason 4, Hannah calls Tyler Down as a Peeping Tom as he allegedly took Hannah's pictured through her window.
Third tape, side A, reason 5, Hannah tells about Courtney Crimson who is a perfect popular girl at school was actually completely fake and started a rumour how Hannah had sex toys in her bedroom.
As Clay was listening to the recordings, he gets on the city bus and bumps into his middle school crush, Skye Miller. They exchanged a few words and Clay got off the bus. Outside Tyler Down's house, as how Hannah tells him to. He then runs into Marcus Cooley who once invited Clay to throw a rock at Tyler's window. He learns that Marcus is also on one of those tapes therefore he is guilty for something too.
Back
to the third tape, side B, reason 6. After being matched up with Hannah on a
Valentine's Day survey, Marcus tried to make a move on her in a booth at
Rosie's Diner. Hannah didn't favour it and she had to push him off onto the
floor to make him stop.
Fourth
tape, side A, reason 7. Hannah starts telling about how Zach Dempsey stole all
the encouragement notes left for Hannah by her classmates in Peer
Communications class for he was rejected trying to comfort Hannah after the
incident with Marcus.
Fourth tape, side B, reason 8, Hannah tells how she was disappointed of Ryan Shaver, the guy she met in poetry class whom she trusted in, cruelly published a personal poem of hers, leading to more ridicule for Hannah.
Clay leaves Rosie's and found Tony outside waiting in his car. Tony tells him that he is the one holding the second set of tapes, the ones that will be released to the public if Clay's tapes aren't passed on according to Hannah's wishes. Clay was full of questions but Tony refuses to answer them until Clay listens to the next tape.
As he wish, Clay listens to the fifth tape, side A, reason 9. The tape features him and she tells that Clay has nothing to do with her suicide and that Clay was actually really nice to her. Clay also confessed his feelings towards Hannah and they kissed. Clay felt helpless and guilty as he would've helped Hannah with her problems if she could have just told them.
Clay moves on to the fifth tape, side B, reason 10. Justin Foley is back on tape. Hannah tells that she knows Justin let Bryce Walker have sex to Jessica while she was unconscious.
Tony then told Clay that on the day of Hannah's death, he found the tapes waiting for him when he got home from school. As soon as he realized what Hannah was up to, he tried to call her parents but it was too late. Since then, he follows people the people on the list making sure all of them follow Hannah's instructions.
Clay then inserts the sixth tape, side A, for reason 11. Jenny Kurtz who offered Hannah a ride home hit a stop sign with her car and refuses to report the incident. Later on, there was a fatal accident at the exact same stop sign. Side B, reason 12, Bryce Walker started to touch Hannah sexually in a hot-tub, Hannah then lets Bryce whom she despised, have sex with her.
For the last one, the seventh tape, Mr Porter, her counselor, didn't take her seriously when she mentioned about suicidal, and let her move on leaving his office without giving any help.
The novel ends with Clay going to school calling Skye Miller, his crush whom he stumbled into on the bus, after mailing the package to Jenny.
Vocabulary obtained
- Serrated - having a notched edge or sawlike teeth
- Ridicule - speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing
- Anthology - a book or other collection of selected writings by various authors, usually in the same literary form, of the same period, or the same subject.
- Absurdity - the state or quality of being absurd (ridiculous)
- Commotion - a state of confused and noisy disturbance
- Staggered - to walk or move unsteadily, uneven.
- Grating - sounding harsh and unpleasant
- Orientation - the determination of the relative position of something or someone
- Decipher - finding out the meaning of something
- Contemplate - reflect deeply on a subject
- Diminish - decrease in size, extent on range
- Avert - to turn away or aside
- Indication - something that serves to indicate or suggest
- Petty - contemptibly narrow in outlook
- Bluff - pretend that your position is stronger than it really is
- Stifle - smother or suppress
- Curb - an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones
- Chauffeur - a man paid to drive a privately owned car
- Flinch - draw back, as with fear of pain
- Juvenile - of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people
- Subtlety - the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze
- Vouch - give personal assurance, guarantee
- Intriguing - capable of arousing interest or curiosity
- Keg - small cask or barrel
- Ornate - marked by complexity and richness of detail
- Meander - a bend or curve, as in a stream or river
- Melodramatic - having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama
- Spew - eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical
- Snicker - a disrespectful laugh
- Berserk - frenzied as if possessed by a demon, angry
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