Thirteen Reasons Why

Content Warning: The following summaries and analyses contain discussions of suicide, self-harm, rape, sexual assault, and drunk driving.

Tony believes they all partially contributed to Hannah’s suicide. Tony was casual friends with Hannah at school. She came to his house one day and gave him her blue bicycle, saying that she no longer needed it and thought he could use it since his car often broke down. Hannah started crying. Tony wanted to give her something in return and she asked for a handheld voice recorder. Tony realizes now that giving away one’s belongings is a warning sign of suicide. He thinks he missed his chance to help Hannah. Clay believes that Hannah had already decided on suicide. Clay asserts that Hannah knew he would have helped her.

Tony receives the tapes in the mail. Listening to them, Tony is confused because Hannah was in class that day. Tony keeps listening, searching to see if he is on the tapes, then realizes he has the second set. Tony immediately calls Hannah’s house, gets no answer, then calls her parents’ business and tells them they need to locate her. Hannah is not in school the next day.