A Poem on Thirteen Reasons Why

When I went to school
I saw that you weren't cruel
To those who are to you.
Instead you let them say
Whatever they wanted.
Little did I know you
Just let it fester and boil inside.
You said everything would be ok,
But I should've known that was a
Cover up.  Then when I got home
Your parents called and told me
About the dirty deed you did.
I should've done something,
I knew something was wrong,
Yet I did nothing!
Now you're gone, forever.
Never to be seen in this world again.
You've gone into the dark abyss.
Good bye my dear friend.
I will miss you forever.

Thirteen Reasons Why: What Would You Do?



Brendan



While reading to page 148 I was thinking about how this book, in reality, could actually happen.  What would people think if they were in this situation?  Would they just stop sending the tapes and forget all about them?  Or would they follow the person’s wishes and go through with listening to the tapes, then sending them to the next person?  Would they just throw the tapes away and forget all about that person, and never think of them again?  I do not know what I would do if I had to listen to tapes of a friend or even somebody from school that I just happened to know.  If I ever got put in that situation would I follow through with the person’s wishes or not?  These are the questions that haunt me right now; all because of the two friends that I have already lost.  What would I have done if they left tapes for me to listen to?  The truth…….I truly do not know!
Although I have been through couple of situations where I have lost friends to themselves, I have no doubt that if they did have something for me to do after the deed was done, it really depends on what, I would have done it.
This book really makes me think about my friends, I know I already talked about them, but I was really close to them.  I cannot stress how hard it is for me to read this book.  There are no words to describe the feeling.

I dedicate this blog post to Brendan and Trevor-Unfortunately I don't have a picture of Trevor

The Beginning

Well…I just started reading the book called Thirteen Reasons Why and I am really getting into it.  Every time I start reading I absolutely do not want to put it down.  Thirteen Reasons Why is about a girl who committed suicide.  The girl’s name is Hannah and she decided to make like a note, but with 13 cassette tapes, to be exact.  On those 13 cassette tapes were the reason why she committed suicide and it involved the people at school.  Hannah encased instructions for after listening to all the tapes, so when one person is done they would send those same tapes to the next person on the list.  A guy named Clay Jensen receives the cassette tapes next, but has no idea why.  He is the one who never worked up the nerve to ask Hannah out, yet he genuinely liked her.
As I got further into Thirteen Reason Why I go really emotional, even though this is a book; I have lost a two friends because they committed suicide, so it was just a bit hard to continue on at the same rate.  So I took some time off from reading, but eventually I started reading again.  Now as I read this book I think of them, but not the bad memories, the good. 
When I began this book I really did not believe that I would like it that much, or even at all, but as I got further into the book I really got into it.  I then realized it was just like all the other books I read.

Boot Camp

I just finished Boot Camp, by Todd Strasser and I have got to say that he is an amazing writer. It is very unusual for me to read a book by an author I have never heard of, but I am so glad that I did!
Boot Camp is about a teenager, around fifteen, getting kidnapped by a man and a woman, and taken for a long drive. When they finally stop he ends up at a school for troubled teens, Lake Harmony. His parents sent him there because he was seeing his high school math teacher, who happened to be eight years older than him. Garrett’s parents told him to stop seeing her and start going to school on a regular basis, like every other student. Yet Garrett does not stop seeing her and does not go to school every day.
When I started to read this I never wanted to put it down because I wanted to know what was going to happen next. Boot Camp got me thinking about this situation, in reality. This could possibly happen and nobody would know about it because they would stay out of the media. This book would definitely be for the modern audience. I felt horrible when Garrett got beat up all the time and then got put in isolation. How long would I last in that kind of situation? Would I try to protect myself no matter what they did to me? Those are the questions that I do not want to be answered.