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The Rocket Slide in Eisenhower Park represents Hannah’s youth and innocence. When Hannah is new in town, she climbs to the top of it and thinks of the town she lived in before, which also had a park with one of these slides. For Hannah, the slide provides a connection to her childhood and the place she lived before she met all the people she lists on her tapes, who she partially blames for her decision to end her life. She chooses it as the location for her first kiss, which she shares with Justin, because it represents innocence to her. But though she enjoys the kiss, her memory of it gets tainted by the rumors Justin starts spreading, saying Hannah wanted to do more than kissing that night, which prompt other people to call Hannah a “slut.” By descending down the slide and away from the rocket ship to meet Justin, Hannah takes her first step away from the carefree, innocent version of herself—through no fault of her own.
The Rocket Slide Quotes in Thirteen Reasons Why
The Thirteen Reasons Why quotes below all refer to the symbol of The Rocket Slide. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Cassette 1: Side A Quotes
The dream starts with me at the top of the rocket, holding on to the steering wheel. It’s still a playground rocket, not a real one, but every time I turn the wheel to the left, the trees in the park lift up their roots and sidestep it to the left. When I turn the wheel to the right, they sidestep it to the right.
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In this passage, Hannah describes a dream she has for several nights leading up to her kiss with Justin. In the dream, she climbs to the top of the rocket slide, which is the same as the slide she used to play on in the town she lived in before this one. In this way, the rocket slide is a bridge between her young, carefree life and the present period of her life, which is full of sadness and suffering due to false rumors her peers have spread about her. The rocket slide is a place where Hannah can feel Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. M
Cassette 7: Side A Quotes
I’m walking down the hall.
Her voice is clear. It’s louder.
His door is closed behind me. It’s staying closed.
A pause.
He’s not coming.
I press my face hard against the bars. They feel like a vise tightening against my skull the further I push.
He’s letting me go.
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Hannah ends the recording of her meeting with Mr. Porter as she walks away from his office. She waits to see if he follows her. It’s clear she half expects him to, given the worrying things she said to him that suggested she might be at risk of ending her life. But Mr. Porter doesn’t follow her, and that allows Hannah to come to the conclusion that nobody is willing to try hard enough to stop her from ending her life. In saying that Mr. Porter is “letting” her go, she implies that his indifference gave her permission to give Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corporis. Hic tempo
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The Rocket Slide Symbol Timeline in Thirteen Reasons Why
The timeline below shows where the symbol The Rocket Slide appears in Thirteen Reasons Why. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Cassette 1: Side A
...hers 10 minutes later. She answers that the trains meet at the bottom of the rocket ship slide in Eisenhower Park in 15 minutes, and Justin says that seemed “awfully slow.” Hannah...
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Hannah explains that the rocket ship is similar to the one in her old town. On summer nights before her freshman...
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Cassette 7: Side A
...Most of the park’s lamps are burnt out, but moonlight bathes the top of the rocket slide . Clay climbs to the second level. Once he’s up there, he presses Play on...
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...wants someone to hear her and understand. Clay climbs to the top level of the rocket slide . On the tape, Mr. Porter asks Hannah what led to her feeling this way....
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