Dead girls don't lie (novel)

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Dead Girls Don't Lie (English original title: Thirteen Reasons Why , literally: Thirteen Reasons Why ) is a children's novel by the US writer Jay Asher from 2007.

It was published in 2009 in a German translation by Knut Krüger in Munich by cbt and as an audio book in an abridged version, read by Shandra Schadt and Robert Stadlober . Further licensed editions in English followed in 2010, for example from Klett and Reclam .

Dead Girls Don't Lie is Asher's first novel, and it became a hit without advertising in the United States. The book was on the New York Times bestseller list for 57 weeks and received multiple awards, including from the International Reading Association . It also became a bestseller in Germany. The rights to the book were sold in 14 countries.

As of March 31, 2017, Netflix released a series based on the book , which was produced by singer and actress Selena Gomez , among others .

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The novel is about Hannah Baker, a schoolgirl who feels isolated, loses all confidence and decides to take an overdose of pills in order to die. Before that, she documents on seven audio cassettes with 13 pages (i.e. six cassettes recorded on both sides, the seventh only one-sided), which reasons and signals there were for her suicide . She names 13 reasons for her suicide, which was caused by thirteen people. After her death, the boy Clay Jensen finds the package with the cassettes. He is also one of the thirteen people who are said to have contributed to Hannah's suicide. The dead decreed that the tapes should be passed on as a chain letter to all twelve people addressed, eleven classmates and a teacher. Clay Jensen was in love with Hannah, but the relationship failed because she was no longer available to him due to the insults of her fellow men. At the end he sends the tapes on to the next person.

The 13 reasons

  1. Justin Foley: Hannah had her first kiss with him. He claimed more had happened in the process, and Hannah thought it had earned her a bad name.
  2. Alex Standall: He made a "hot-or-not" list and stated that Hannah had the hottest butt of the year. She associates this entry with various (sexual) harassment.
  3. Jessica Davis: At the beginning there was a friendship between Hannah, Jessica and Alex. However, because of Alex's list, Jessica became jealous. The girls' friendship broke because Jessica listened to the rumors rather than Hannah.
  4. Tyler Down: Tyler was watching Hannah through a window and taking pictures of her. This stalking made Hannah feel unsafe, threatened and worried even at home.
  5. Courtney Crimsen: Hannah and Courtney meet to find out who Hannah's stalker is. They are photographed by Tyler while Courtney, in Tyler's presence, claims that Hannah has sex toys in her drawer. This is initially a joke between Hannah and Courtney, but at a later party Courtney pretends to be true, which is still damaging to Hannah's reputation. She calls Courtney hypocritical and says she is only concerned about her own image.
  6. Marcus Cooley: He had a date with her on Valentine's Day and sexually harassed her.
  7. Zach Dempsey: Every student in Hannah's communication course has a paper bag in which other students can anonymously put notes with compliments and praise. Zach stole the notes from Hannah's bag after she rejected him. So she couldn't read the compliments she urgently needed back then.
  8. Ryan Shaver: Hannah confided some of her poems to him, but he published one of the poems anonymously in the school newspaper. As a result, other students made fun of her poem and associated it with her.
  9. Clay Jensen: He and Hannah had a very in-depth conversation at a party and kissed, but Hannah pushed him away and told him to leave. She later avoided contact with him. She wanted to use the tapes to apologize for her behavior and explain the reasons for her actions to him.
  10. Justin Foley 2: Bryce Walker raped Jessica at a party. Hannah was drunk and hid in the closet of the room, but did not intervene. She felt partly responsible for the rape. Justin could have prevented this too, but did not.
  11. Jenny Kurtz: She wanted to drive Hannah home from a party. On the way she drove over a stop sign, but did not report the damage. A student had a fatal accident a little later. Hannah felt complicit in the death of the victim.
  12. Bryce Walker: He raped her after a party, but she keeps reiterating that she didn't fight him either.
  13. Mr. Porter: Hannah told him about her suicide plans and her rape. He didn't really go into it, though, nor did he try to stop her.

Reviews

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Date / issue of the newspapers

The book has received several reviews in German-language newspapers. Sieglinde Geisel wrote in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung that the novel sometimes seems deliberately constructed, but she liked the way Asher approached the subject of suicide. Tobias Rüther drew a parallel in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung to the Winnenden rampage . Roswitha Budeus-Budde recommended it to both young people and adults in the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

Consequences for the author

In connection with allegations that especially in Thirteen Reasons Why are " intimidation and sexual violence central after observation of BuzzFeed ", Asher was "excluded from the society of children's book authors and illustrators after allegations of sexual harassment", as only became known in February 2018.

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literature

  • Margitta Eckhardt: Reading vocabulary on “Thirteen reasons why” . E. Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-12-578051-4 .
  • Dorothea Buschmann, Alexander Feyer: Jay Asher, Thirteen reasons why . Klett Sprachen Verlag, Stuttgart 2010.
  1. Main volume, ISBN 978-3-12-578044-6 .
  2. Teacher's guide. ISBN 978-3-12-578045-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bestseller books for young people November 2009
  2. ↑ derStandard.at "Netflix series" Dead Girls Don't Lie "from March 31" from February 2, 2017
  3. ^ Review in the NZZ, August 2, 2008
  4. ↑ FAZ from February 23, 2009 article in FAZ.net
  5. ↑ Jay Asher excluded from the US Writers' Association , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, February 12, 2018, accessed on February 13, 2018