The Tragedy Paper, Elizabeth LaBan

8/18, 145 minutes, pgs. 1-90

Personal Zine,

8/12, 10 minutes

            The tragedy paper is a book that includes voice recordings to tell a story including the main character, a lot like the book 13 Reasons Why, which is also a great book. Both of the books have characters that aren’t included into the book by presence, but those characters are included in the book by items, the voice recordings. Usually, the main character played a part in the voice-recorded stories, and the character on the voice recorder had to tell the story from their own point of view to show why they did something.

            There are also many differences; the main character’s part in each of the voice-recorded stories is very different. In 13 Reason’s Why, the main character was part of the voice-recorded story in a positive way, and in The Tragedy Paper, apparently the character telling the story tried to kill the main character. Another difference was that the end of the story in 13 Reason’s Why was already decided because the girl committed suicide and left all of the voice recordings. The end to the story in The Tragedy Story still goes on and develops.