She Kills Monsters: Poem Analysis

She Kills Monsters has a lot of obstacles that characters have to overcome during the play. From accepting each other for who they are, overcoming struggles and shaping their identity even more. I created a poem about acceptance and how you just be yourself no matter what people say. Be imaginative because it leads to the best outcomes. Shape your identity into something you are proud of. For my creative response I decided to do a poem about acceptance. The reason I chose to do it over acceptance is because a lot of the characters in She Kills Monsters are fighting to find out their true self. Tilly is a person who creates this world where she can fight her inner and external struggles. Her struggle of telling people she was a lesbian. Tilly got bullied a lot before she died and Agnes has to accept the fact that she died before they could become closer. People have to accept the fact that everybody has an inner nerd in them. During this play you see Agnes’s inner rebel come out, but at the same time she lets out her nerdiness when she finds Tilly’s Dungeon and Dragon notebook. She finally finds her identity.

I can relate to the struggles that these characters had to go through because when I moved to Leavenworth from Clearwater I was so nervous about feeling accepted. Just keep telling yourself everything will be okay, just let everything else fall into place. I feel like that’s what the characters had to do in this play. Also just trying to figure out what creative response I wanted to do. I knew a poem would be interesting just for the fact that you can use your imagination and create a story in just a couple of sentences. That how I came up with a poem about not caring about what people think and just let them accept you for who you