The most recent Netflix high school mystery TV Show has brought up enormous critical reviews on the past few months, having the most shocking scenes throughout the series that would apparently be disturbed to watch. It definitely was the first series that has the depiction of the struggled US high school teenagers, and how they are facing for the issues that probably bring the crucial effects on their entire lives. The series depicts on thirteen reasons why Hannah, the narrator of the series, killed herself after being bullied excessively on several times by her collage students.
In the series, we see that Hannah is being disintegrated by which a particular events happen in a series, severely effect on her life to take her own life at the end, as she narrates down her story. When we recall that horrific events has happened to Hannah as follows: The incident of leaking her picture of her appearing in an underwear by her first high school romance Justin, on their first date. Her best friend who ever had in her school, accusing of cheating her with her boyfriend, Alex. She is stalked by her collage friend, Tyler and blackmails her with a photograph taken of her and one of her female friend making out on her bed, and later that female friend spreads rumors about her just to avoid expose of her own deep secretes. The most recent one is that she is brutally raped by her collage classmate, Bryce, few days before she makes her own decision to kill herself.
The character, Hannah, explains much enough why we need to draw an attention on who desperate for others’ help; that makes us rethink about how we could have changed someone’s life when they were severely needed helping in a past time. When a person who has been experiencing on chronic psychological traumas for a long time of their lives, it’s highly unlikely to be expected that they will act as a normal person do, when they encountered a sudden shocking incident, disintegrating the web of trauma they have been already experiencing.
As people are passing their stages of lives, Hannah was at her extreme vulnerable stage of her life when she finally meets her life predator, Bryce. Having being brutally raped by Bryce, it triggers her to make her own decision to kill herself resulting the extreme effect of her past web of trauma.
When Hannah attempts to seek a guidance from her college counsellor, it’s clearly notable that the counsellor tries to invalidate her incident of rape by saying her to move on, and convinces her to ignore whatever happened with Bryce at that night. And, also, he fails to understand and unables to do anything when she convinces him that she could literally do anything to take her own life, by saying that she needs everything to stop. Hannah was lacking of having confident relationships with anyone at her college, and always annoyed by high school bullies. She was emotionally unstable; this is why she tells the counsellor that she feels a deep emptiness about everything when she is asked how does she feel at the moment.
Her life could have saved from taking her own life if anyone there would have been able to confront of her gradual erosion of her self-esteem. So the final conclusion that we can take away from this is that understanding about not every person living around us can undergo the traumas that trouble them. It’s our right to help them coping with the right guidance, making sure there won’t be another Hannah to end up the life by suiciding, as it’s not a solution.
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