Rumors everywhere
There many things in life that gives Hannah a very rough time at this new town. "Now the truth is the one you won’t forget" (29). The previous quote shows how Hannah is trying to explain that everything you say in this world has a consequence. In the book Hannah and her 13 reasons revolve around this quote when everything but the truth gets out and no one wants to be seen around her. Lies after lies happen. The truth was always avoided in the book rumors and rumors began hunting Hannah not finding a way to escape. In reality if people never had started one single rumor Hannah would have had a wonderful life. Not only in the book does this happen but also around us everyone tries and avoids the truth to a point where you can't take anything back. Some of us may do this to protect out love ones not realizing what kind of damage may happen. This lesson is illustrated in the book as it would happen in the outside world.
No looking back
Many famous quotes come out of this book but there is one that caught my attention that gives the book a giant concept of the teen life. "You can't stop the future, you can rewind the past" (back of book). This quote was used in the book to basically explain how Clay wanted to avoid the fact about being blamed for Hanna's death he didn't want to look into the past and all the memories he once had with Hannah. This book explains how mostly teens feel. We just want to get out of the world and be you but we know it can’t happen and once it’s done it can’t be taken back. The world always wants to be good at stuff but in reality you could only get there by not screwing up otherwise it wouldn't work out. Many of us have embarrassing moments that we would kill to get back but we can't so this book is trying to tell us that there is no looking back once you do stuff so you have to think about it really good.
karma
Everyone knows not play karma because it will bite you right back. In this book it didn't happen often but at some point it did. "But eventually as they always do the rumors reached and everyone knows you can’t disapprove a rumor"(30). Hannah tried to run away from all these rumors but she never could it always came back to her no matter what. People just loved to judge her even if she tried ignoring it. Rumors reach everyone in the book and in the real world even teachers could hear about them in a couple of hours and not speak up. If rumors were reached to and fixed then it would help our world become a better place. But not only do rumors harm, the people who create them also do. If everyone in the book worked against these rumors it could have helped Hannah survive. Karma certainly got everyone on Hannah’s reasons good or bad.