Book 1 Project- Th1rteen R3asons Why

              I’m offering you an opportunity to do your own tapes. When you have a party you could have a scavenger hunt but instead of it ending in one or two hours, make it last at least a week or two. By getting your friends together make your voice guide them to look for the lost thing you were looking for. Or with your own tape recorder you could just allow your friends to find you.  It will be fun. And with tapes you know it could be pretty darn amazing thing to do.  The tape recorder is just a more fun way to communicate with people. But please with these fun video recording tapes and all we are also going to send an informational packet about suicide. Please if you ever see someone who needs a friend be there for them because you don’t know the journey they have had to go through. They them self’s or you even don’t know what to do any more and think that death is the only way out to not be terribly miserable. But you, I, everyone could prevent this from happening.

                This idea was taken throughout the whole book. When Hannah had sent tapes instead of anything modern. All though not in the physical story in the Ask the Author in the back of the book it tells us why. Although he said he used it because “when something is out-of-date but the characters acknowledge it, the book is suddenly up-to-date” he used it for getting his book recognized, but I believe that there’s other significance to it. I believe that Jay Asher had used Tapes instead of anything modern because then it would take the mystery away from the book, of whom had the second set of tapes. Without the tapes Clay would never have stolen the Walkman, and we would have never known it.

                The idea of an informational packet about suicide also came from the book. In one of the tapes Hannah had made she had mentioned that she “Wrote a note to Mrs. Bradley that read: “suicide. It’s something I’ve been thinking about. Not too seriously, but I have been thinking about it.” And that she “wanted someone to figure out who wrote the note and secretly come to my rescue”   so with this it’s better for people to be better informed in this Very serious topic. When they think someone may be going toward the wrong path and thinking about suicide, it’s better to go make them feel that you truly care about them.

                I think people will like this because who doesn’t want to make an awesome game like, a scavenger hunt, last more than just a couple hours. It also gives the person who had read thirteen reasons why to experience the frustration and sadness that Clay had experienced while listening to the tapes. The informational package not many will want but I think many people will truly appreciate that suicide is not just a light topic that is not taken seriously. And with his informational packet many will try the best to “save” the one they are worried about. And it will be there guide to try to help a loved friend or stranger. Another reason that I think people will like the making their own tapes is because it’s always fun to make a secret audio journal or facts about  them self’s, that they can pass around to people without them knowing how had passed the tapes out. Some people like a great mystery. It is also a good way to reveal thing about yourself without anyone knowing so.