THIRTEEN REASONS WHY

I read Thirteen Reasons Why in high school so I was excited about seeing how a different medium would approach the story. The book was about a teenage girl who killed herself and leaves thirteen tapes with thirteen reasons why she killed herself behind to give to people who were involved in those reasons. Netflix put out a mini series, were each hour long episode was one of the tapes. Hannah Baker (the girl who killed herself) narrating the story through the tape and looked back at the reasons why. Then the story looked at the present and a boy named Clay who has the tapes, people that have already listened to the tapes, and Hannah’s parents. I found it very hard to stop watching the series, I started it Friday night and couldn’t stop watching till I forced myself to go to sleep and two thirty. I then finished the rest of the series in the labs Saturday. Even though I remembered what happened because I read the book I still couldn’t stop watching it. Netflix beefed up some of the events to make them more dramatic. The story had a thrilling effect that made me want to watch one after the other. I wanted to know what happened and why even though I knew how it ended. I became invested in the story and characters, I experienced angry and hate for both of them. Because the story deals with real issues that can break a person’s spirit. I think a lot of girls and women can relate to the modern day misogyny females experience in high school and beyond. After finishing the mini series I had this feeling, of now what? I’ve had the same feel after finishing shows, movie series, and books. You invest a lot of time into watching and getting attached to characters and storyline then it’s over. The show consumes your thought and you need to know how it ends. When watching Thirteen Reasons Why, it brought me back to how high school sometimes is and how end of the world everything feels. I hope that teenagers watch that learn that what they do affects the people around them.