Post 3: Book 1 Project

Thirteen Reasons Why is a book full of mystery, fear and eagerness of what is to come next; but once it is all said and done did you want a little more? To know just a few more details or live within the book and Hannah's life for just a little longer? I did too, and I have the perfect solution for you! The Thirteen Reasons Why board game, it is fun and exciting and lets you live within the book as many times as you want without having to read it all over again. How it works is you can have up to 13 players in the game but no less then 2 players, you begin with 13 cards with an emoji on it a person (3 happy face emoji cards, 3 mad face emoji card, 3 neutral face emoji cards, and a free card) next you roll the dice but you don't move yet on the board, you first have to draw a card and read a quote from one of Hannah's tapes and determine if she would have a smiley, mad, or neutral face emoji while saying this; if you think she would have a smiley face you move forward how ever many spaces you rolled with the die, if you think she would have a mad face emoji you move back that many spaces, and if you think it is neutral you stay where you are. For example: you draw a card and it reads, "I admit, during class discussions I didn't open up much. But when I did, did anyone thank me by dropping a note in my bag?  That would have been nice to know. In fact, it might have encouraged me to open up even more." (166) This would be considered a mad face in my opinion because this boy Zach kept taking all her notes of encouragement that could've really boosted her self-esteem and maybe would have held her back from taking her own life because of all the pain that built up inside her, it truly is the little things that have such a large impact on us. So in this case I would have to move backwards. If I drew another card and it read, "Hanging over the front of the counter, a wire rack holds all the best candies. Well, they're my favorite anyway. And the moment I open the door, the man at the register rings me up cha-ching- even before I pick up a candy bar, because he knows I never leave without one." (45) This would definitely be a smiley face emoji because this was a positive memory that she had throughout her life and it was someone who knew her well enough that she would not leave the store without buying  candy bar first, sometimes it is good just to know somebody does pay attention to you. Now, I would move forward. Finally, if my third card said, "If you could hear other people's thoughts, you'd overhear things that are true as well as things that are completely random. And you wouldn't know one from the other. It'd drive you insane. What's true? What's not? A million ideas, but what do they mean?" (175) Although you could maybe argue that this could be a smiley or mad face emoji I would say that it is mostly a neutral face because it really isn't expressing a negative or positive view for sure. This would mean I would stay put on the space I am at. At the end of the board game there is a giant smiley face and whoever lands on the smiley face first is the winner of the Thirteen Reasons Why board game!