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Courtney to show up. As soon as they arrived the party place, Courtney left Hannah
behind and went to a group of guys, after telling Hannah not to leave party without
her, “You are my ride, remember?”. In the party, Hannah was alone with no one else
to talk to and deeply thought that she was used by Courtney. So in a revenge for
using her as a tool, Hannah left Courtney in the party after saying the quote above.
Thus the quote portrays the theme of revenge. After being an outcast and bullied for
several times, Hannah realized that she can no longer behave in the way that she
used to do so far. So she started to act strongly in order to change people’s
perspective toward her. Unlike before, she actually stepped out and argued.
However, this turned out to be a failure, as no one trusted her, which lead Hannah to
slowly come up with the idea of committing suicide.
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“You didn’t rape her. And I didn’t rape her. He did. But you... and I... we let it happen.
It’s our fault.”
In Hannah’s second party, she observed a terrible scene, where her friend, Jessica,
was raped by Bryce Walker, another high schooler who was known as a Casanova.
When the incident was going on, Hannah hid inside the closet in the room and didn’t
even make a sound. Also another witness, Justin, connived Bryce, by not stopping
him from entering the room. Long after the incident, through the tape, Hannah told
the above quote to Justin, which was what she had wanted to tell him when he was in
the depths of despair under extreme shame. This reflects the theme of regretting the