Dear Hannah

Dear Hannah Baker,


     I am so sorry things had to turn out this way. You thought that no one cared about you, that no one would care if you were gone, but they did. Everyone was upset when you left, Especially Clay. What did Clay have to do with your suicide? It’s driving me nuts! Where is he on the list and why? I understand why you would be upset about all these incidents but none of them were good reasons to take your life. You left behind your family who loves you, and you left behind friends that loved you, they all cared about you weather you thought so or not.

            Hannah everyone loved your hair cut, they all thought you were beautiful. I can only imagine what it felt like when you found out about the peeping tom. That must have made you feel insecure and unsafe in your own home. Why would someone do such a thing? I wish I knew you Hannah, I feel like you would have made a great friend.

Sincerely,

Emilly

Thirteen reasons why

         The next novel I am about to start reading is Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. This novel is about a girl, Hannah Baker, who commits suicide and makes thirteen tapes to explain to people why she committed suicide. Each person who receives a tape must listen to them and pass them on. When playing the tapes, you hear Hannah’s voice, and her reasoning for what she did and how these people had something to do with her death. Just by reading the back of the novel, I can conclude that the story is going to be riveting, and that it will express a lot of feelings on Hannah’s behalf and most likely on the others who will be receiving the tapes. I am extremely looking forward to reading this novel and I hope it takes me on a journey through Hannah’s’ life. The main reason I want to read on in the book is to see what reasons she gives these people and if I believe them to be good reasons. I want to know why this girl killed herself and what terrible things people had to have done to make this happen, to let something like this happen. If this were a true story I guarantee it would be really hard and depressing for the ones who receive the tapes due to the fact that they are the ones being blamed by the girl who killed herself. Like i say about most books... this better be good.

Feelings

We are coming to the end of reading the novel Hate List by Jennifer Brown and I am very excited to find out how the author choices to conclude the story. Many emotions were stirred up inside me when reading some sections of this story. Every time I read one of the news reports I would picture the scenario and think about how that stupid felt of how it affected the family. Whenever Valerie expressed her feelings about her mother I thought about my mother and how they were related or if they were related. Other times, if Valerie was feeling sad, I would feel sad. If something good happened in the story, it would make me happy. When Valerie found out that her father was having an affair with his secretary, I put myself in her shoes. How did that make her feel? How would I feel if I got news like that?  I felt like every feeling each character was expressing or feeling at the time, is the same way I felt while reading. I was in shock and disbelief when I found out that Val’s father was having an affair. Part of me wonders if her mom knows, or if Val is going to tell her. It is expressed in the book that Valerie has a creative side, so when she found Mrs. Beas place I thought of it as a good opportunity to express that creative side and also get away from her house and school.