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Meeting Three: Themes/Images & Ending

Questions 1) Do you think Hannah is being dramatic? If so why? 2) What were the themes? 3) Do you agree with Hannah's decision to kill herself? 4) Do you think Hannah wanted help? 5) What would you do in Hannah's position?
 * A little bit, to an extent. She had some problems but she should not have gone to the extent she did. She blew her problems out of proportion and blamed other people for her depression. No one should have to go to that level, and kill themselves.
 * Anger
 * Regret
 * Guilting people
 * No, everyone has problems but she blew hers out of proportion. She should not have killed herself. Her problems were not severe enough to commit suicide.
 * Yes, she went to a guidance counselor for help. He tried to help her but then suddenly, she seemed to not want help from anyone anymore. She probably made up her mind while talking to the guidance counselor.
 * If we really had problems, we would try to get help. None of us would resort to committing suicide. The problems have to be really severe to even think about suicide.

Summary of Book The last section of this book is more tapes about different people that Hannah had problems with. It is basically the same situation as the other parts of the book. This section brought more explanations about why she killed herself. Hannah finishes stating her thirteen reasons and says good-bye forever. Clay has a lot more regret and anger towards the people who caused Hannah to kill herself.

Summary of Discussion

Overall we talked about the theme of suicide in the book. We discussed a lot about the fact how Hannah was a little too dramatic. We understood that she clearly was facing problems like bullying, but suicide was not the answer to her problems. We discussed that she should've gotten help instead of killing herself. We also think that she shouldn't have blamed her problems on other people. She should've tried to fix the problems with the characters that received the tapes instead of making tapes to just make them feel bad. If they would have known they were doing something wrong before she killed herself they could have changed their behavior to make Hannah feel better about herself. We all agree that she should've fixed her problems instead of killing herself.