13 Reasons Why: Raising Awareness of the Issue of Teen Suicide

You can't stop the future. You can't rewind the past. The only way to live is to press play. 13 Reasons Why the bestseller book is written in 2007 by Jay Asher. It's a General Fiction. It's about a girl named 'Hannah Baker' who has committed suicide a few weeks back before her death she recorded 13 cassette tapes where she was explaining why she chooses the path she did with that tape Hannah also gives instructions first to listen and second to pass on. She also said that don't break the rules if you do these tapes will be released publically. Then one by one she tells all the hidden truth she faced all the pain through which she suffered. The most interesting thing about this novel is that this is worth read for all genders and all age groups. This is a lesson to all of them for students, for teachers, for parents, for friends, for loved ones. 

The author had covered all aspect of this novel. It's the most realistic novel I have ever read on suicide because in many cases when someone commits suicide their closed ones tries to predict what or why was the reason behind it. Unlike most suicide victims, Hannah narrates her own story by sharing her deepest and darkest secrets in explaining why her life is not worth living. This novel also helps the readers to realize how much impact they do to others lives. Like some of the people in Hannah's tapes could not even realize how their seemingly small action had such a powerful impact on Hannah's life and without her tapes, they never would have known. 

This novel also tackling the tough issues of teen suicide addresses rape, bullying, gossip, peer pressure, underage drinking, and survivor's guilt. Jay Asher really did a great job. I felt I was reading about real people instead of characters in a book. I liked the message which he conveys from this most realistic novel that people should be more considerate of others because you never know what someone is going through and how you could affect them. 

Also raising awareness of mental health issues is something I applaud because they are not issues most people even acknowledge until they are forced to. Other than that I liked that hopeful ending of the book as well. This book gives a deep impact on my life too, I mean after reading this novel I am more concern about people around me and tries to motivate them to listen to them because I realized one thing from this novel that people are finding just one reason to live while there are hundreds to kill their self's.