My idea is
an interactive box which the audience can take out the objects while reading to
become more attached to the novel. There are very important objects in the box.
As you read Thirteen Reasons Why, Clay who is the main character receives a box
of tapes from his friend Hannah who committed suicide. Hannah is the narrator
throughout the novel. You go through the book and go through each tape
wondering why Clay has gotten the tapes and why he is one of the reasons Hannah
killed herself. Overall the book is very suspenseful. It hard dealing with a
narrator who is dead but I love how the attitudes of each character really
shines in this book. I think Thirteen Reason Why is a must read and I think to
prove that the objects in my box will make the book actually come to life.
1. I put a camera in the box because in
tape 2 side B you meet Tyler. Hannah realizes that she has a “Peeping Tom”. On
every tape is a person and there story for what they did to Hannah for her to
kill herself. She realizes that Tyler has been peeking in her bedroom window
and taking pictures of her. “So tell me, Tyler, those nights you stood outside
my window, was I spontaneous enough for you? Did you catch me in all my
natural, unposed…” I think this is the part of the book where you see that
Hannah has no boundaries.
2. I put a simple brown paper bag in the
box because in Hannah’s class they have bags at the back of the class that are
meant for students to put compliments in. The idea is that if you don’t have
enough guts to tell the person face to face you can drop it off in there bag on
the way out of class. In the story you find out that Hannah’s compliments have
been stolen from Zach Dempsey. The whole meaning of the paper bag was for the
audience to pick it up and realize that it is empty and that no one has
anything nice to say about them. I think that even though it seems like a
little joke that Zach pulled that if you were the one with the empty bag you
would be upset.
3. The hot or not list was made by Alex,
he made the list depending on the freshman and senior class. He put Hannah’s
name in the hot column and Jessica’s name in the not column. It doesn’t seem
like a bad thing but Alex put them against each other so they would get in a
fight and not be friends.
4. This is the Walkman that Clay uses to
listen to Hannah’s tapes. The Walkman that Clay uses is his friend’s Tony’s.
5. The popcorn represents how Clay and
Hannah knew each other. They both worked at the movie theater together. Hannah
would always work the concessions stands when Clay wasn’t working and he would
stop by and check to see what she was doing. Hannah and Clay always had a thing
for each other they were both just too shy to admit it.
6. The seven tapes represent the tapes
that Hannah made and that she mailed out to the thirteen people. I think it
would be interesting for the audience to hold the tapes and to think about how
it feels to know all of the people that made Hannah kill herself. It would make
the audience feel like Clay.
