Authors purpose
in the book Thirteen reasons why it tells the story of Hannah Baker who had just killed herself. The story is told through the two characters who's names are Clay Jensen who is the main character. You have the girl who killed herself but wouldn't go into the darkness quietly Hannah Baker. This story takes place in a very small town all within a couple blocks of each other. Jay Asher, the author of this book and a couple other well known ones, the town he grow up in was very similar to this one. The town was very small, everyone knew who the other person was, everybody knew what was going to happen before it was going to happen (Litlovers.com). All of these events were based off of real events that happened in Jay Asher's high school even though they may not happened to the same person (Litlovers.com).