'13 Reasons Why'

I just finished watching the Netflix special 13 Reasons Why series. In the series it talks about bulling, sexual assault and harassment. The series starts out with Hanna Baker committing suicide. Just before she died she had made a set of tapes of 13 reasons why she had ended her life. She had trusted in the one friend to make sure these tapes had gone out to whom needed to listen. After her death some chain reactions had started and people start to wonder how they could be a part of her suicide.

From once being best friends to being shut out to having the school's top football player thinking he is king shit and that he can get away with almost anything without consequences and sexually assaulting fellow school mates to black mailing and harassment.

Teenagers will do anything just to stay on top and staying ahead. But what happens when you go too far?

When Hanna Baker ended her life, a chain of events came into play and everyone who was in contact with Hanna Baker wonders how they played a small part in her ended her life. So, everyone listens to the tapes and panics over how this can make her not want to end her life.

As the investigation goes on, no one is really held responsible for Hanna’s suicide. The investigator plays it off as Hanna had a rough life in school between everything and she couldn’t handle it anymore. Which makes things worse because even though Hanna was suffering so much in her life, no one really noticed how sad and depressed she really was.

Everyone has a secret. But how much is one person willing to go to keep their secrets. Because at the end of the day, “Why would a dead girl lie?”

While watching the series, I saw how much one person can have an effect on other people’s lives. How you find out what the background life of a bully is and when they come to school and take it out on everyone else. Then the victims, how they are effected and what happens to them. Sometimes bullying unfortunately takes it too far and the bully takes it too far and people actually get hurt. Or in some cases, people can’t take it anymore and decide to end their lives.

Even when you are the most popular kid in school, they can find themselves causing trouble. But because they are popular and a star football player and come from money, people see no wrong in them, and that’s how some people slip through the cracks and are not stopped so they are able to keep going.

One person doesn’t really cause so much damage. It’s usually a lot of things built up and how their current living situation is. Also how they were raised and what was going in their personal lives is how they project on other people. To which is no excuse, but if that is the only way, they know they think it’s alright even though it isn’t.

But when someone’s life has been taken, that’s when something actually happens. But these kind of people still can never see what they have done and the pain they have caused. The bully always blames the victim on their actions.

Well, a suicide doesn’t cause chain reactions. This is because when a suicide happens the secrets behind said suicide finally come out for everyone to hear, so then it takes the right person to hear something to happen.

At the end of the day, someone has to take blame for the events leading up to the event. The thing is everyone is responsible for their own actions on how they were involved in the event. Everyone is responsible no matter how big or small their actions are. Even the smallest of actions can have the biggest impact.

Chain reactions only cause so manage to so much trouble because the main tie had broken unravelling a sting of reactions going off.

Eventually at the end of the series everyone gets what they deserved. Bullies get punished for their actions and the victims do get their justice. It doesn’t take away the scars and pains of the trauma, but at least the victims and families get the justice.

After watching 13 Reasons Why and seeing how everyone takes bullying differently, there’s never an excuse to bully someone else. Just because your life isn’t going well gives you no excuse to treat others like they are nothing.

It makes you think of how other peoples’ home life is. The show really makes you think of why someone is who they are. Everyone comes from different backgrounds and you shouldn't judge someone because you don’t know what kind of life they’ve had or are having.