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What are two themes in the novel 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher?

I have to write a book report on this novel and give two themes. I know that suicide is obviously one of the themes but I have to put it in to a sentence somehow.

Hi, Katie.
I’m only about halfway through the book now (Marcus), but it seems to me like one of the themes should be empathy. Like, be kind to other people, because you never know what kind of personal hell they’re going through.
– Lily

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The Uninvited [VHS] $14.98 One of the spookiest ghost stories ever put to film, The Uninvited is also one of the few classic haunted-house movies to treat the subject with respect and seriousness. Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey play a brother and sister who leave the city to live in a beautiful old house dramatically perched on a cliff overlooking the Cornish coast. As they discover some of the house’s peculiarities–the unexp…

El Dorado [VHS] $0.24 El Dorado doesn’t quite have the scope or ambition of Howard Hawks’s greatest Westerns, Red River and Rio Bravo. But this relaxed picture, made near the end of Hawks’s marvelous career, still shows the steady, sure hand of a master. Hawks reunites with John Wayne, playing a hired gun mixed up in a range war; Robert Mitchum is Wayne’s old pal, now a sheriff in the midst of a hopeless drunken bender…

The Devil’s Arithmetic $8.98 A gripping and intense filming of Jane Yolen’s novel, this family drama stars Kirsten Dunst as a rebellious Jewish teen who learns a powerful lesson about her family’s faith and the Holocaust when she’s miraculously sent back in time to a Polish concentration camp in 1941. Paul Freeman, Brittany Murphy and Mimi Rogers also star; introduced by co-producer Dustin Hoffman. 97 min. Standard; Soundtrac…

Les Miserables $6.98 Lavish, superbly acted adaptation of Victor Hugo’s classic stars Liam Neeson as Jean Valjean, the fugitive who has become a mayor in France during the 1820s. Tragically, Valjean’s past haunts him in the form of tenacious Inspector Javert (Geoffrey Rush), a former guard at the prison from which Valjean escaped. Uma Thurman and Claire Danes also star; Bille August directs. 134 min. Widescreen; Sound…

Treasure Planet $7.99 From the directors of Disney’s ALADDIN and THE LITTLE MERMAID comes a spectacular new motion picture for the entire family. Buckle up for thrills and excitement as a classic story of friendship, courage, and self-discovery gets an incredible futuristic twist for an all-new generation. It’s “another jewel in the crown of Disney animated classics” (Clay Smith, Access Hollywood). A secret map inspire…

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New-Carson-Dellosa publishing 144196 – Owls Bulletin essentials – CDP144196 $26.55 For mystical magic or fall fun, owls liven up any classroom. Includes bulletin board set, autumn leaves pop-its border, owls and moons cut-out buddies, owl novel note and owl nameplates. Theme: Owls; Color(s): N/A; Width: N/A; Height: N/A. Carson Dellosa Publishing; Owl Bulletin Board; Set; Classroom Decorations; Classrooms; Decorative; Teachers; Education; Schools…

The Alchemist $6.30 Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazili…

Novels of the Contemporary Extreme $130 Investigates a new form of fiction in contemporary literature across the globe. This collection of essays identifies and describes this international phenomenon, investigating the appeal of these novels' styles and themes, the reasons behind their success, and the fierce debates they provoked.

More Novels and Plays $42 Another information-packed, time-saving tool for teachers from the authors of Novels and Plays, this book contains 30 teaching guides for some of the best literature commonly taught in grades 6-12. With initiating activities, chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, writing assignments, and interdisciplinary extensions, these are complete lesson plans. For each book there is also a brief plot summary, a critique, lists of themes and literary concepts for teaching, suggestions for outside reading and vocabulary study, and lists of available print and electronic media resources.

Charles Johnson’s Novels $17.55 “This is truly a major contribution to African American literary criticism, and it promises to elevate Johnson to the place in the literary firmament he so richly deserves.” — Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University Charles Johnson came of age during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. His fiction bears the imprint of his formal training as a philosopher and his work as a journalist and cartoonist with a well-honed interest in political satire. Mentored by the American writer John Gardner, Johnson is preoccupied with questions of morality, which are informed by his knowledge of Continental and Asian philosophical traditions. In this book, Rudolph Byrd examines Johnson’s four novels — Faith and the Good Thing, Oxherding Tale, Middle Passage (National Book Award Winner), and Dreamer — under the rubric of philosophical black fiction, as art that interrogates experience. Byrd contends that Johnson suspends, shelves, and brackets all presuppositions regarding African American life. This bracketing accomplished, the African American experience becomes a pure field of appearances within two poles: consciousness and the people or phenomena to which it is related. Johnson’s principal themes are identity and liberation. Intent upon the liberation of perception, for the reader and the writer, Johnson’s fiction aims at “whole sight,” encompassing a plurality of meanings across a symbolic geography of forms, texts, and traditions from within the matrix of African American life and culture. And like a palimpsest, Johnson’s texts contain multiple layers of meaning of disparate origins imprinted over time with varying degrees of visibility and significance. Charles Johnson’s Novels will appeal to fans of the writer’s work, but it also will serve as a helpful guide for readers newly introduced to this brilliant contemporary American writer.

Encyclopedia of Comic books and Graphic Novels $180 At a time when graphic novels have expanded beyond their fan cults to become mainstream bestsellers and sources for Hollywood entertainment, Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels serves as an exhaustive exploration of the genre’s history, its landmark creators and creations, and its profound influence on American life and culture. Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels focuses on English-language comics–plus a small selection of influential Japanese and European works available in English–with special emphasis on the new graphic novel format that emerged in the 1970s. Entries cover influential comic artists and writers such as Will Eisner, Alan Moore, and Grant Morrison, major genres and themes, and specific characters, comic book imprints, and landmark titles, including the pulp noir 100 Bullets, the post-apocalyptic Y: The Last Man, the revisionist superhero drama, Identity Crisis, and more. Key franchises such as Superman and Batman are the center of a constellation of related entries that include graphic novels and other imprints featuring the same characters or material.

Collected Novels and Plays $19.99 Following the widely celebrated Collected Poems , this second volume in the series of James Merrill’s works brings us Merrill as novelist and playwright. Just as in his poems we come upon prose pieces, dramatic dialogue, and even a short play in verse, in his novels and plays we find the rhythms of his poetry reflected and given new form. Merrill’s first novel, The Seraglio , is a daring roman à clef derived in large part from his early life as the cosmopolitan son of Charles Merrill, one of America’s most famous twentieth-century financiers. written in a highly refined prose that owes something to Henry James, the book is a compelling portrait of the luxury and treachery swirling around the Southampton beach house of an irrepressible family patriarch, with his many mistresses and ex-mistresses in attendance, told from the point of view of his lively but troubled son. At the other end of the narrative spectrum we find The (Diblos) Notebook , an experimental novel in which a young American’s adventures on a Greek island are deconstructed and assembled into a tentative fiction before our eyes. Merrill’s plays, including the one-act comedy of manners The Bait and the Chekhovian The Immortal Husband —a reinvention of the myth of Tithonus, who was granted eternal life but not eternal youth—are also fresh turns on his characteristic themes: home and travel, reality and artifice, simplicity and complication. And, for the first time in print, here is Merrill’s short play The Birthday , a fledgling effort written in 1947 and a fascinating window onto the concern with spiritual communication and the otherwordly that would later blossom into his great epic, The Changing Light at Sandover . From the hardcover edition.