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Sarah L Clark
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I'll admit it, it seemed odd to walk around in the middle of the night, only to go hang out with someone you witnessed rape someone, along with a bunch of kids who apparently "bully" you. (they actually seem to like her in the end. It's clear that Jessica is kind of letting her know that they are still friends.) But,

What about her parents, Clay, Tony, her friend from the poetry club, a number of other students in the school who would have been friends with her…

Yeah, I don't think anyone that watches it would cut their wrists. So someone might then think, "well, maybe shooting myself in the head would work." It still sends a message that suicide is a way to get revenge on people that wronged you.

Not really. In the final episodes she's well-liked, people walk up to her, say nice things to her. The only awful thing someone did to her, was the rape. Everything else either happened to someone else, or wasn't that serious. So many aspects of the show made no sense.

Yes, we should be empathetic. However, some of the actions committed by characters where incredibly minor. So the point is kind of lost.

That's the thing. Not that many terrible things happen. There was certainly at least one terrible thing that happened to her, everything either happened to someone else, or wasn't that big of a deal. Yet the author wants the reader to blame these kids for "killing" her instead of highlighting the fact that she's

The show was awesome, but it didn't teach any lessons or make any good points. The girl was mentally ill, yet the concept of mental illness is completely ignored. It makes suicide appear as a way to leave the earth with vengeance as a martyr. No. When you kill yourself, you are gone forever. Most people will forget