Blog of 11/10/14

Thirteen Reasons Why By Jay Asher

Prompt: 
1) Analyze how dialogue or specific incidents reveal information about characters. Make sure to include textual evidence.
2) Analyze the impact word choice has on the meaning or tone of a text.

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  In the book "Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher" it both shows and doesn't show specific information about the characters in the book. It is a mix of bothAn example of how "Thirteen Reasons why" tells you the information right in the book is on page 17. It is where Clay (main character) is describing how Hannah (other main character) looked like (in his point of view). In the book it says, "The party where I first saw Hannah Baker. God. I thought she was so pretty." Here it shows how Clay thought of Hannah. He thought she was really pretty.


Here is an example of how "Thirteen Reasons why" tells you the information not clearly stating it. When Clay got the tapes from Hannah saying those thirteen tapes were the thirteen reasons why she committed suicide, and that whoever got those tapes were one of the reasons why. In each tape she mentions the place where that happened, Clay feels the need to go there. This shows how Clay actually liked her and needs to visits the places in why she committed suicide.

In "Thirteen Reasons Why", Jay Asher doesn't use much big words in this book. His writing is not too easy and not too hard to read. His word choice helps change the mood of the story. His word choice helps see how Clay feels in the story about Hannah committing suicide. In the book it says, "I was too shy. I was too afraid. Watching Justin and his friends that day, I got the sense that there was more to her than I knew." Here at the beginning of the sentence his word choice shows how Clay feels about talking to Hannah.

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