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Eng100 4/9/2017 This blog is about why I think everybody should read the book Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. Thirteen Reasons Why follows the story of Clay Jensen,as he returns home from school to find a mysterious package on his bed. When he opens it , he finds seven cassette tapes. Upon inserting them into his family’s cassette player, he discovers were recorded by Hannah Baker, a girl that he went to school with who recently committed suicide. Her instructions are clear: each person who receives a package is one of the reasons why she killed herself, and after each person has completed listening to the tapes, hey must pass the package on to the next person, if anyone decides to break the chain, a separate set of tapes be released to the public. According to the American Psychological Association, teen suicide is a growing health concern. Data provided by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that it is third leading cause of death for the fifteen- to twenty-four-years-old age cohort. About 60 percent of teen suicides are committed with a gun, followed by intentional drug overdose. Suicide rates also differ between young women and young men. Though girls consider and attempt to commit suicide twice as often as boys, boys die by suicide four times as often as girls. This is in part because boys tend to use more lethal methods (firearms, hanging, jumping from heights) than girls (drug overdose and cutting) ("About Teen Suicide," Kid's Health).
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