Thirteen Reasons Why discussion

I think lately it has become a larger issue. When I first read this book, I was in middle school and I myself had been bullied...a lot. I had some teachers I could turn too, but didn't feel like talking to them all the time. Knowing that other classmates were watching and knew what I was going through. My father got ill of cancer when I was in school too and it was just him and I. Personally, yes, I do believe this happens to teens all the time. Now, it can be more on social media than what maybe most parents would think of. Getting back to Hannah, I feel as if almost everyone had some part to play in her death. Maybe some of it was overreaction a little bit, but let me tell you. When you have SO much stress going on outside of school or work, and those people just continuously add to it, it can feel like the weight of the world is crashing down on you. I wish Clay would have at least tried to make a better effort to talk to Hannah. I think Hannah's parents backed off a little too much as well. I'm not a parent but when I was in my teenage years, my mom never let me go anywhere without an explanation. I feel as if maybe more people were kind to Hannah and tried to make an effort, maybe someone or something would have helped her. Hannah was depressed and getting bullied didn't help. The most drastic change was her cutting her hair. BIG sign, in my opinion. Someone should have stepped in at that moment. Depression is a difficult thing to go through and like Hannah, I was alone going through mine. Sometimes we all just need a friend. Someone to talk too and get advice from. Someone to tell us that it will be okay. I think in Hannah's case, the classmates especially, were too selfish and didn't see that someone needed help.

Everyone

Everyone played a part, but Bryce played the biggest part of all.
I disagree, Omid. I do not think it is normal to get betrayed by your classmates or regular friends. I'm not saying it doesn't happen - just that it's not a regular thing. It's much more common to see friends drift apart then to see them stab each other in the back.

As Crazy as this must sound everyone and no one is to blame.
Everything that happened in the book happens to most people during school life (accept maybe the rape and the stop sign) and without wanting to do a huge long list of the indivdual cases everyone takes things diffrently. Hannah never seems to really speak out and tell people how much things anoy her (until its to late) and how does she expect them to know hows she felling?


But ultimately i feel she because herself for not stoping things (like the rape and the stop sign) and therfore she expected everyone to have the same moral compass and could not understand why they did not.

Furthemore she expected people to help but pushed them away as soon as they tried and I feel the more they tried the more she would of run.

so everyone had the chance to help her or applogize for there actions , but no one really knew how much she needed there help or if she would of even accepted there apology.

You can never understand what goes on inside another person's mind. I don't believe the characters in the book are responsible for Hannah's suicide. Aside from the rapist, the only people responsible for Hannah's suicide are Hannah herself and her parents who should have been there and had a strong enough relationship with their daughter to recognize she needed help. Her parents should have had a strong enough relationship with their daughter to recognize she was not alright and be brave enough to take action. The fact that Hannah's parents tried to sue the high school I think is just a way to deflect responsibility. It's actually been over a year since I read this book so feel free to argue with me I may have missed remembering something.