Guided - Conversal issue - 13 Reasons Why

-Choose a controversial issue from the text, and take a stand on ONE SIDE of the issue. Discuss your reasons disagreeing or agreeing with a decision a character made in the novel regarding the issue.
I believe the biggest issue in the book is Hannah committing suicide because she felt all alone inside. I believe she should have tried harder to get help. She was making signs, such as the hair cut. But that isn’t good enough. I mean I’m sure you really don’t know if you’re going to do it until you do. She made the tapes and maybe she should have just told her parents what was going on even though it may have been the toughest thing in the world to do. I really don’t feel all that bad for her honestly. She took the easy way out. She is a quitter. She may not be a catholic but in my religion, suicide is a moral sin. It’s the same as taking a life and it’s against the law. Maybe she should have looked at her faith and remembered what she does have instead of what she doesn’t have. Friends come and go and she needed to realize that. Being cool and popular isn’t everything, I mean it’s great but it shouldn’t affect your life. I don’t really believe that it is totally her classmates fault and the teachers and her environment. It was really just her mental attitude towards it all. She let it get to her so much, it killed her. I do the same thing all the time, letting things get to me. But I remember what I have, a lot. I mean I do feel bad for her getting teased and not having friends, but that doesn’t mean to just kill yourself. This is probably a bad way to look at the situation, but has anyone thought about how bad those kids feel who made a few mean jokes to her? I mean the book shows them in her perspective so I portrays them as ***holes but I hope that the end is a twist that it explains how I’m seeing it this way.

Essay article – “what steroids did to me” = my opinion on it

It briefly explains he’s friends and there side effects of the drug. One of his closest friends did the “juice” for over a year. Before he was a nice, fun, loving kid to be around; but after he was angry and would resort to violence. He beat his girlfriend, got into random dumb fights with everyone, and started committing crimes for no reason. Another incident is a kid committing suicide after beating his girlfriend. The man whose article this is about took them for many years. He’s role models took them, so why not him. Well, inside the arena he sees the positives, jacked, lean, huge muscles that increase in size in a week. But outside the arena he doesn’t see what they go through. Well, I currently know a lot of people who use steroids. They can be used an oral pill and not injected so I’m sure most of my classmates have met someone who has taken them or is on them. I have a few stories; a great close friend of mine was self conscious, so he started taking prohormone cycles after another. He would just freak on everyone all the time!! Like I swear I had to throw that kid off atleast 5 kids because they would mumble something about him at a party and he’d freak out. In my opinion this is a very scary subject. Steroids are scary and the side effects are dreadful. I read in a sports illrusted that they are the most addicting drug because the results you get are so great you will never want to stop. The will power over the results is not great enough. That’s very interesting and I hope none of you fellow bloggers ever get urself into the world of steroids.

Week 4 - Thirteen Reasons Why

For the book Thirteen Reasons Why, I believe it is set up perfectly and it is all thought out. The main character “Hannah,” should be admired. She set it all up perfectly picking people. There was something that stuck out to me that I felt necessary to write about thought. She was being called “Best ass,” it may be a compliment but it is not an appropriate one if that. This happened to me back in high school but it was a little different and people still say the same dumb crap when they see me or think it. I used to be a small little one hundred thirty-five weak kid. With long curly red hair and never worked out. Well, I got really into fitness and lifting and got really a lot stronger and muscular. I got into all the popular supplements, like protein, creatine, etc. But I never took steroids. I really didn’t get a nickname towards it, but everyone would always let me know they thought I wasn’t natural and that they said I was on the juice. It could be a compliment but it really isn’t when people think your private area is small or deformed from things you have never taken. Hannah didn’t want that title “best ass,” and I don’t want the title kid who took steroids and got big. People can be cruel and you just have to be above it.

My Favorite Spot to READDD!!!!!

As far as my favorite spot or spots to read, it would have to be outdoors. My house is kind of in the woods so as far as reading it’s really soothing to hear the nature. Some people think the crickets, frogs, wind, etc is all annoying but I like it a lot. As far as where in nature I like to read, I would have to go with by my pool or sitting on patio furniture laying back to a nice day with the sun. I would have to say that I read my best with seventy five degrees at least and a really hot sun so I can get a tan. Usually in the fall and winter months, I use to be an avid bow hunter. I would use my climber and climb up the tree about twenty feet or so. Than get everything situated and usually I would bring a very small book that I could read while waiting for deer to run around. Reading is so quiet and peaceful, it’s about the only thing you can do while sitting in your tree stand waiting for deer to come. This last summer I was a lifeguard at arrowhead pool. On most days the pool would be empty and we would have nothing to do except wait for people to come, so I would read magazines. I would have to say, I am more into car magazines than I am into books. It’s because I love pictures and I love cars. In conclusion, I am not a huge indoor reader and I don’t want to feel cooped in my house all bored.