Critical Reading Analysis : Thirteen Reasons Why

Milan Castro                                                                                                                        Dec.15th,2013

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Critical Reading Analysis

                For my reading book “Thirteen Reasons Why” by Jay Asher, I picked the question who has the power in the story? And so far in the book, many people have the power; them being Hannah Baker, Clay Jensen, The person who has the extra tapes and the people who are on the tapes.

                Hannah obviously has the power because she is telling her part of each story from her point of view. Clay has the power as well because as far as he has heard, he knows all the dirt on the people on as many tapes as he has heard about.

                There is also that extra person who is secretly holding the tapes until someone tries to get rid of the tapes and doesn’t listen or pass them on to the next “victim”. Yet we don’t know if this person or tapes are real. As far as we know, they are threats.

                And finally there are on the tapes themselves. They somewhat have the power because they can expose each other to the public if they had to.

                Over all, many people in the book themselves have the power. But the person with the most power is Hannah Baker.