This essay revolves around Jay Asher’s novel Thirteen Reasons Why (2007) or in this case theSwedish translation Tretton skäl varför (2010). When it was published Asher’s novel was aninstant hit among its primary YA audience, but the novel caused a lot of debate and concernamong parents and adults. The purpose of this essay is to examine the possibilities of usingthe novel in Swedish classrooms, both as a work of literature popular among young adults andas a way of opening up discussions about its heavy themes, such as suicide and bullying. Inthe essay previous research on Thirteen Reasons Why. both the 2007 novel and the 2017Netflix-series adaption, is accounted for. Previous research on reading and the connectionsbetween reading, mental health and suicide, as well as its relevance in an educational context,is also described. Furthermore, Asher’s novel is summarized chapter by chapter and itsnarratology is explored and described. Finally, suggestions are made as to how teachers couldwork with the novel in their classrooms and the essay’s main points are summarized inthirteen reasons why it could be beneficial to work with Thirteen Reasons Why.

<p>Uppsatsen tar upp tretton bilder som<em> Hilma af Klint </em>målade under tidsperioden 1906-1915. Bilderna ingår i en svit som kallas för <em>Bilderna till Templet</em><strong> </strong>som omfattar nästan 190 målningar. Under hennes livstid var hennes livsverk okänt för hennes samtid. Hon målade abstrakta, geometriska former och använde klara färger flera år före sina samtida konstnärskollegor. Inom ett hermeneutiskt arbetssätt ingår det olika moment som tolkning, beskrivning och analys av bilder. Uppsatsen vill belysa och ta upp hennes formspråk ur symbolisk synvinkel med hjälp av den hermeneutiska arbetsmodellen. Dels genom att göra hennes bildspråk mer begripligt och dels för att hitta gemensamma nämnare som ökar förståelsen för hennes målningar. Enligt författarens mening hade hon svårt för att förstå innehållet i bilderna, men hade en klar tanke om att bilderna speglade evolutionstanken i Skapelsen.</p> / <p>The essay includes thirteen pictures by <em>Hilma af Klint,</em> who painted these between 1906-1915. The pictures is a part ofa suite namned <em>The Paintings</em> <em>to The Temple</em> which extent almost 190 paintings. During her lifetime her life's work was unknown to her own period. She painted abstractical, geometrical forms and used bright colours many years before her contemporary artistcolleagues. Within a hermeneutical method includes different moments like, interpretation, description and analysis of pictures. The essay wants to illuminate and to lind her idiom out of a symbolic visual angle with help from the hermeneutical workrnodell. Partly making her pictorial language more clear and partly to find common factors which increase the understanding for her paintings. The author of this essay means that Hilma af Klint had some difficulties to understand the contents of her own paintings, but she had a clear thought that the pictures reflected the evolution thought in the Creation.</p>

Uppsatsen tar upp tretton bilder som Hilma af Klint målade under tidsperioden 1906-1915. Bilderna ingår i en svit som kallas för Bilderna till Templet som omfattar nästan 190 målningar. Under hennes livstid var hennes livsverk okänt för hennes samtid. Hon målade abstrakta, geometriska former och använde klara färger flera år före sina samtida konstnärskollegor. Inom ett hermeneutiskt arbetssätt ingår det olika moment som tolkning, beskrivning och analys av bilder. Uppsatsen vill belysa och ta upp hennes formspråk ur symbolisk synvinkel med hjälp av den hermeneutiska arbetsmodellen. Dels genom att göra hennes bildspråk mer begripligt och dels för att hitta gemensamma nämnare som ökar förståelsen för hennes målningar. Enligt författarens mening hade hon svårt för att förstå innehållet i bilderna, men hade en klar tanke om att bilderna speglade evolutionstanken i Skapelsen. / The essay includes thirteen pictures by Hilma af Klint, who painted these between 1906-1915. The pictures is a part ofa suite namned The Paintings to The Temple which extent almost 190 paintings. During her lifetime her life's work was unknown to her own period. She painted abstractical, geometrical forms and used bright colours many years before her contemporary artistcolleagues. Within a hermeneutical method includes different moments like, interpretation, description and analysis of pictures. The essay wants to illuminate and to lind her idiom out of a symbolic visual angle with help from the hermeneutical workrnodell. Partly making her pictorial language more clear and partly to find common factors which increase the understanding for her paintings. The author of this essay means that Hilma af Klint had some difficulties to understand the contents of her own paintings, but she had a clear thought that the pictures reflected the evolution thought in the Creation.