36 Facts About Hannah Baker

Hannah Baker is a fictional character created by American author Jay Asher.

Hannah Baker is the subject of his 2007 young adult fiction mystery novel Thirteen Reasons Why, which was adapted by the media company Netflix as 13 Reasons Why.

At the beginning of the series, 17-year-old schoolgirl Hannah Baker took her own life by cutting her wrists.

Hannah Baker warns listeners to follow certain rules: everyone mentioned on the tapes must listen to the complete set then pass it along to the next person addressed.

Hannah Baker finds listening to Hannah's story difficult, but his friend Tony finds him and reveals he plays a part in enforcing Hannah's will by making sure the tapes are heard; he knows Clay is mentioned on them.

Hannah Baker warns Clay things will go wrong if he does not obey the tapes.

Hannah Baker had just moved to town and became friends with her neighbor Kat, who is moving away to college and introduced her to her ex-boyfriend Justin Foley, along with his friend Zach Dempsey.

Hannah Baker made a few meet-cutes with Justin before deciding to hang out with him later in the evening at the park.

Justin, managing to take a revealing photo of Hannah Baker and having kissed her, showed the photo to his friends that Bryce Walker spread through the school, which embarrassed Hannah Baker.

Hannah Baker tried to gather herself by confiding in Clay, but he made a hurtful comment and Hannah Baker felt isolated.

When Hannah Baker found out, Alex broke up with Jessica and wrote a "Hot or Not" list with the two friends opposite each other.

Hannah Baker seeks the school principal's help but because she and her husband have sued the school, they cannot help her more than what the school intends to help with.

Hannah Baker discovers that Hannah felt that everyone on the tapes either took advantage of her or abandoned her.

Hannah Baker did not know it was him and shared her fear of her stalker to Courtney Crimsen; Courtney volunteered to sleep over and the two play Truth or Dare, stripping their clothes and eventually kissing.

Hannah Baker then calls Tony to pick him up while his mother is informed that he left school and never came back.

Hannah Baker anonymously wrote a note for him and publicly confronted for targeting her, but revealed that he threw the note away.

Zach and his mother later accuses Clay of keying the car and Zach secretly admits to Clay that he kept the letter Hannah Baker wrote to him.

Hannah Baker joined a poetry club and met classmate Ryan Shaver.

Hannah Baker was further humiliated when her class decided to discuss about the poem, not knowing who the author was.

Hannah Baker was afraid to tell anyone and left with classmate Sheri Holland.

Hannah Baker made her way to a nearby gas station and called the police about the sign, but they tell her someone had already called "it" in.

The school was under the impression that Jeff drove drunk while Hannah Baker tried to admit her guilt in indirectly killing Jeff but Clay dismisses her.

Hannah Baker reveals that this was "the most difficult day" of her life.

Hannah Baker saw that her parents are financially struggling and offered to help, but they refused to take money from her.

Mr Porter cannot make her disclose the identity of her rapist and Hannah Baker refuses to get her parents or police involved so he gives her the only option of moving on.

Hannah Baker's parents were revealed to have discovered her and called the police but were too late to save her.

At the beginning of the series, Hannah Baker is a 16-year-old high school junior, "from a white picket fence town with an almost perfect family".

Varietys Maureen Ryan offered a similar observation on the realistic portrayal of teenagers, writing that the "darkness" in Hannah Baker's life is "constantly interwoven with the natural resilience and questioning optimism of adolescence".

For most of the story, Hannah Baker is characterized by her struggle adjusting to an unsympathetic school environment and her "desire to fit in" which "trumps everything".

Towards the end of the narrative, Hannah Baker's meeting with Mr Porter marks her complete descent into depression.

Hannah Baker said it was a failure of "telling a story" and a missed opportunity to "undo stigma around mental illness".

Grady acknowledged the connection between Clay and Hannah Baker and wrote that the series heavily depended upon "a secret connection" between the two.

Hannah Baker said Langford's performance preserves the character's "wide-eyed vulnerability".

Hannah Baker was played by Katherine Langford on the television series; her first major acting credit.

The character of Hannah Baker received polarized responses from television critics and mental health analysts, but was more well received by the readers and audiences.

Mental health experts are educating the general public on what to do in the situations Hannah Baker goes through and disseminating accurate information surrounding teen suicide, depression, and youth that experience traumatic events.