-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.
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