13 why reasons summary

She wakes up at during and asks what he is doing although she doesn't know who is having sex with her. She passes back out, Bryce finishes and leaves. Hannah had moved from hiding near Jessica's bed to hiding in her closet, unable to move her body to stop Jessica from being raped. When Bryce is gone, Hannah exits the closet and and throws up, she puts a blanket over Jess and says she is sorry for not being able to stop it.

She blames Justin and herself for not stopping Jessica from being raped. In the books Hannah says that she did not put Bryce as a reason because ".. And if I sent them to him, they would stop. Think about it. He raped a girl and would leave town in a second if he knew Hannah's tenth reason is Sheri Holland , a friend of Marcus and Hannah, Sheri offers to give Hannah a ride home, as Hannah is drunk and distraught after pushing Clay away and witnessing her friend get raped.

Hannah is reluctant to say yes so Sheri does a cartwheel to show that she is sober enough to drive her home. Hannah accepts her offer and gets into her car, they start to drive and Hannah asks for a charger because her phone just died. While Sheri helps her search she looks away from the road and looks back up to see that she is about to smash into a stop sign. They both get out and Sheri tells Hannah to get back in the car, Hannah wants to report it but Sheri doesn't want to get in trouble.

Hannah insists they report it and Sheri drives off because Hannah refuses to get back in. Hannah later finds a working phone to report it but the police say they already got the call, but not about the stop sign, there was an accident a few minutes later and Jeff Atkins , a school friend of Clay's died because he crashed into another car after one of them did not see the stop sign.

Hannah's eleventh reason is Clay Jensen. During her attendance at Jessica's party, she sees Clay and they start talking, they end up going upstairs and talking some more, a couple come out of Jessica's room and she suggests they go into the room. When they are int he room, Clay kisses Hannah, Hannah allows this and they start to make out on the bed Hannah and Clay are about to have sex when Hannah remembers every bad things that happened to her because of something sexual, Justin, Alex, Tyler, Marcus and Courtney.

She begins to have flashbacks and can't handle them. She becomes scared of being touched and asks Clay to leave. Clay obeys and Hannah reveals that this one is actually on her, and Clay doesn't belong on the list, but he needs to be there if she is going to tell her story. Hannah's twelfth reason is Bryce Walker. After sending the photo around school and assaulting Hannah in the corner shop, he gets into the hot tub while Hannah is in it, alone.

Hannah becomes scared of him, knowing that he raped her friend. She tells him that she needs to go home but Bryce refuses to let her get out of the hot tub. He grabs her hands and holds her down while he rapes her.

Hannah becomes lifeless, and looks like she is no longer inside of her body. She freezes and Bryce continues. Hannah walks home after Bryce is gone, when she gets home she writes down a names of people that have helped her get where she is, emotionally, mentally and physically.

She says over the tapes that Bryce had helped her live up to her reputation of being a slut. At this point she is completely drained and plans to kill herself so that no one can ever hurt her again.

However after finishing what she thought was her last tape, she felt something shift and decided to seek help. Hannah's thirteenth reason is Mr. Porter , the guidance counselor.

After Hannah decides to seek help, she visits the school counselor. She tells him that she wants everything to stop—life. He asks a series of questions and she answers them. She then talks about the list that went around, labelling her "Best Ass".

Porter says he hadn't heard of it. She tells him that people were reacting to it and he asks when the last time was, she tells him that it was at a party. Something happened but she doesn't really tell him what, he thinks she is implying that she had sex with someone that she didn't want to at first but maybe consented and changed her mind.

Hannah becomes upset that that is the first thing he assumes. Porter asks more questions and Hannah further implies that she was raped. Porter understands slightly her implications, he asks for a name of the person who raped her, Hannah refuses to give his name without security, she wants him to go to jail and asks that she never sees him in school again.

Unfortunately, Mr. Porter can't promise her this he tells her that if she can't give him a name or if she isn't sure that she can even press charges then the best option is to move on. Hannah becomes more upset and angry asking "Do nothing?! Porter tries to help her further but Hannah has all that she needs, she needs to "move on". Hannah Baker, a sophomore at Liberty High School, committed suicide two weeks ago. Before her death, she recorded two sets of cassette tapes detailing thirteen reasons why she decided to die.

The tapes come with a map around town that each listener is to physically follow while listening to the tapes. She says that he is a genuinely nice boy. She explains that they were at a party together, very close to the end of her life, when everything was spiraling out of control.

They had a very long conversation and learned a lot about each other, and Hannah explains that she wished she had gotten to know him earlier. They kissed, and she felt overwhelmed by remembering what had happened between her and Justin. The tenth tape is addressed to Justin again.

Hannah explains that on the night of the party, he allowed his friend to enter a room where a drunk, unconscious girl was laying and rape her. Hannah does not name the boy who committed the rape; she explains that if she named him, he would skip town and stop the chain of tapes. However, she blames Justin, to a certain extent, for allowing the boy into the room in the first place.

The eleventh tape is addressed to Jenny Kurtz , who gave Hannah a ride home the night of the party and hit a stop sign. The day of his funeral led Hannah to start thinking about her own funeral. The twelfth tape is addressed to Bryce Walker , who sexually assaulted Hannah in a hot tub at the party before she left. It is on this tape that Hannah begins discussing how she planned to kill herself. The thirteenth tape is addressed to Mr. She went to him with her feelings of depression and isolation, and he did nothing to help her.

As the tapes are played, Clay walks to each location that Hannah discusses, feeling more and more distressed as he does so. Basically, go read it: it's a really interesting, challenging, and pretty brilliant structure. The thirteen stories i. As he's listening to Courtney's tape, Clay gets on the city bus and runs into his middle school crush, Skye Miller.

He starts to wonder why Skye always isolates herself from everybody. They exchange a few words and then Clay gets off the bus, outside of Tyler Down's house. There, he runs into Marcus Cooley, who invites Clay to throw a rock at Tyler's window which is already broken. He learns that Marcus is also on the tapes, so he must be guilty of something, too. Back to the tapes: 6 After getting matched up with Hannah through a Valentine's Day survey, Marcus tried to make a move on her in a booth at Rosie's Diner.

She had to push him out of the booth and onto the floor to get him to stop. Still listening, Clay heads toward Rosie's next stop on the map ; on his way he sees the Crestmont Theater, where he and Hannah worked the previous summer.

He got the job to be close to her, but he always let the rumors about her stand in the way of telling her how he felt.