the end

i just finished thirteen reasons why. it is now one of my favorite books of all time. it is really easy to read and its powerful. it makes you wonder things about your own life and how you are an impact on other peoples lives. this book makes me take other people into consideration more. you'll never know people might take something you've said wrong way and hurt them selves or even kill themselves. its simple people, be nice! treat people how you would want to be treated. take others feelings into consideration... YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

problems i wouldnt want myself in

in thirteen reasons why, a guy named Clay Jensen receives a set of suicide tapes. he starts listening to them and cant believe what he is hearing. its the voice of a girl named Hannah baker. she had recently taken her own life and she has thirteen reasons for doing so. Clay Jensen has those tapes for a reason. he is on there because Hannah wanted him to hear why she did what she did. if i were clay Jensen i would be going crazy, wondering why i had to be apart of something so tragic. why me? what did i do? if it were me in the situation i would of listened to the tapes as Hannah asked. but it would of forever changed my life. can you imagine listening to a close friend of yours tell why they did what they did? i would feel like i could of helped her. i could of noticed the signs and could of saved her life. but in the book clay just listens and that's all he can do for now.. because she is already gone. it's too late.

what are my feelings about thirteen reasons why?

while reading thirteen reasons why, i start to think what if i were on the list? what if i could of stopped the suicide, what if i saw the signs? when i think about those questions i literally get the chills. could you imagine going to school sitting in class and staring at an empty desk knowing what they did to themselves and that they weren't coming back? its sick. i can't imagine being in that situation. Especially if i got the tapes. Sitting there listening to someone telling me why they killed them selves, and why i was apart of it. After reading the part when Hannah told the listener about the "warning signs" of suicide, i seriously walk around campus observing a few people i see everyday, looking at their appearances and  their attitudes and see if they fall under the warning signs. its like i come paranoid and feel like I'm apart of the book. to be honest, i kind of like it and i definitely enjoy the book a lot.

thirteen reasons why poem

okay guys i do NOT write poems what so ever, so bare with me... i don't know how you set them up correctly but i tried for my guided response

i'm sick of this pain
when will it end
it's in the wrong hands now
i'm stronger than me
too bad you can't save me
too bad you weren't there
i'm sorry you had to hear it like this
but goodbye is here.

my next book

I'm really excited to read my next book. i chose thirteen reasons why. i heard it is really good. its about a teenage girl named Hannah Baker. she commits suicide, but before she kills herself she makes six tapes with two sides and the seventh tape only has one side making it the total number of sides, thirteen. Hints the title thirteen reasons why. she sends the tapes around in a box to the first person on the list. they then have to listen to the tapes and find out why they are part of what she did and why. it sounds amazing and i am anxious to read it. however,i am worried about is how its written. Will it confuse me going back and forth between what the listeners are thinking and saying and what Hannah is talking about on the tapes? So far it hasn't been too bad, but i catch my self here and there having to go back and re-read something that I've already read. i haven't gotten too far in the book yet but i am pumped to keep reading and find out who is on the tapes and why. :)

my point of view.

In my opinion, the strongest part of the text is the shooting, and weather or not Valerie should be allowed back to school or not. i believe Valerie should be allowed to attend Garvin High again. Even though Val did make the hate list, and she was nicks girlfriend, it does not make he guilty for what nick did. No one knew what was going on in nicks head that day he shot up the school. How was val supposed to know he really wanted to pick off the people one by one from the "hate list"? It is a hard subject for val to talk about. It takes a whole lot of courage to go back to school, Especially when she knows people may never forgive her for creating this horrible list. Valerie's mother is very cautious when it comes to Valerie. she is always asking questions and making sure she isn't going to harm herself or anyone else.

• What would you do if you were Val's mother?
• Would you be crazy and uptight about where Val went and who she talked to, and hung out with?
• What about her dad's "affair"?

 i know if i were Valerie i would be so upset after seeing what she saw that day she went into her dads office. if it happened to me in my life, i would never forgive my dad for what he did. but on the other hand i wouldn't want him to waste his time with a family he doesn't want to be around. it would be tough and i can't imagine how some people get through problems like that. but now a days its more common wouldn't you think?

What i do when i read

What i do to read successfully...
the first thing i do when i read is find a comfortable place, not too comfortable because no matter how interesting the book is i will fall asleep. the second thing i do is make sure where i am reading is completely quiet, or has little to few distractions. it makes it easier to read and understand what i read. the third thing i do is take notes, not long boring notes just little things to remember, like who characters are, what they look like etc. this makes it easier for my brain to understand and remember someone for a test. the fourth thing i do is i try to end on a spot where i can easily pick it up and start reading again, like the end of a chapter. if you stop in the middle of a chapter, in my opinion, i feel like you would get lost and have to reread some of the page to remember whats going on. another thing you could do when you read is mark in your book(only if you own it of course). if you do not own it then use sticky notes or tabs. personally i used to hate reading. i dreaded reading books for class because usually they were not interesting to me at all. but i soon found my solution to help me read. since then it makes me understand and enjoy what i read. now i can sit back relax and actually get some reading done.

Letter to Val

Dear Val,
I can not imagine how you are feeling about the "incident". It must be really hard to think about your boyfriend Nick becoming a monster like that. You loved him and he loved you. You loved the way you guys connected and understood each other, or so you thought. I also can't imagine what was going through your mind when he shot the first victim. It was shocking and really scary. If I went to Garvin high i would not have been mad at you, I would of been angry with nick. it would of been a little nerve racking to see you return to school but i wouldn't treat you they way some of the students did when you first got to school. You are already scarred for life because of what happened, you don't need all the bull crap on top of it. what happened isn't your fault. It was just a stupid high school thing that went way, way too far. a lot of people do have that "one person" like you said. i even have a couple but i would never want anything like that to happen to them ever. All I am saying is that you shouldn't blame yourself. You stopped it. You saved lives of who knows how many he was capable of shooting? The whole situation makes me sick to my stomach. Its like a huge dream that you never wake up from, like how you cant even grasp the fact that someone close to you has died. Its so unfair. Its so unreal.
                                                                 
                                                                                                                 Sincerely, Presley

a story that must be told

I currently did a book chat and i talked about the book a child called it. This book is no doubt a must read! It's a TRUE story about a boy named David who gets abused by his alcoholic mother. David is just a regular human being just like me and you, but his mother didn't see him as part of their family. he was called "the boy". David had three other brothers who did not get abused. talk about unfair and humiliating. His mother was an alcoholic and would always take out her anger of poor little David. some of the most intense parts of this novel was when David's mother made him drink a spoon full of ammonia, which could kill you. She also burnt him purposely on the stove and made him eat his little brother's dirty diaper. talk about ridiculous. i think its even insane she came up with some of these nasty "punishments". This story is just incredible,sickening,sad,breathtaking,and intense all in one. i love this book because it is a true story and it happened to the author, David Pelzer It took him a whole lot of courage to write such a heart warming book about his terrible childhood. I believe that he wanted people to know about his childhood and how horrible child abuse is. All forms of abuse should be STOPPED! In my opinion people who abuse children or even animals for that matter deserve to get a taste of their own medicine! What do you think?


p.s. David Pelzer has two books that follow a Child Called it, called The lost boy, and A Man Named Dave