13 reasons why

The novel that I am reading now is called thirteen reasons why. The book is about a high schoolgirl named Hannah Baker who kills herself over a number of things that other students had done to her kind of like bulling her but not in such a harmful way like most bullies do. The acts that were committed to her were silly acts, but harmful to her. For example the two people she made friends with first because all three were new to town were part of the thirteen reasons. The girl was very fake and had to have anyone like her no matter what and she used people to her advantage. This girl's name is Courtney Crimsen she used Hannah to get a ride to a party then told some guys an untrue story to get them to talk to Hannah. There is one story about a "pepping tom" his name is Tyler Down. Hannah caught him taking pictures of her while she was in her bedroom. She caught him by asking Courtney to come over and they talked and acted like the were playing around so they could here the snap of the camera. Alex Sandall is on her list as well, he is also the boy who became her friend at first. Alex, Hannah, and Courtney all were friends at first and Courtney and Alex had a thing or at least Courtney knew Alex liked her. Any way the point of Alex being on the list was because he named Hannah best ass for the high school year book and Courtney in the not section which caused a fight between Hannah and Courtney. Not a big fight but still the fact was that Alex did it just to make Courtney mad and jealous and it worked. The boy narrating the novel is on the list I haven"t made it to his section of the tapes yet but his name is Clay Jensen. He remembers how he liked Hannah and how they made out at a party once. The thing he remembers the most is how he liked her but never had the courage to ask her out. Basically so far the novel is about a teen who kills herself because of what some fellow students put her through and she made thirteen tapes giving the reasons why and who caused the pain. There is a real life situation that just happened. A girl hung herself back in January because of nine students that harassed her everyday for several months at school and on the Internet until finally she killed herself. They harassed her for everything right down to the upper class man she had dated. Bulling people may seem to be fun at the time but when it is so bad that it makes them kill them self then it is not so fun and you can get charged with serious felonies like those student who bullied that girl. They are being charged with things such as assault and some form of manslaughter. the worst part about that situation is that the school new all about it and did nothing to intervene. I know this blog was suppose to be all about the book but I heard on the news yesterday about that poor girl and thought it was odd because I was reading a book about a girl who killed herself because of others so I thought I would related the book to a real life situation.