In the book Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher, the event that occurs is that one of the most well known people in the city commits suicide. She leaves 13 tapes, double-sided, and each side has a person that it is about and it is blaming that person for some reason why she killed herself. The cause was that she ended her life because she wasn't happy anymore. People treated her very terribly. Once the first person is done with the tapes, they set it on the doorstep of the next person listed in the tapes.
The climax is right in the beginning; Hannah Baker killed herself. Because climaxes are the turning point, peak, or change in a story, that is the climax. When she made the decision to end her life, she made many people have mixed emotions. She ended her life for a reason that could have been fixed. The effect on this is that all the people have to live with the guilt for the rest of their lives, being a small portion of why the girl killed herself.
If this event were to change, the story would not be a story unless this was the smallest problem. Also, the author would've had a different plot in mind obviously, because this is the basis of the story. The author would definitely have some problems in life if they could come up with something worse than suicide by a teenage girl.
Andrea it was a really good piece but in the Author's Note and the first paragraph you have to underline the title I know it's dumb but your going to get yelled at. :)
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