Theme Of She Kills Monsters By Qui Nguyen

She Kills Monsters is an excellent play that explores relationships and grief perfectly. This play is about the story of Agnes Evans and her journey through processing the sudden and tragic death of her sister, Tilly. Agnes and Tilly are complete opposites, and because of that, Agnes never really took the time to get to know her sister until now. She Kills Monsters themes are explored in various ways. However, the three primary ones that stand out are parallelism within the character, battle repetition, and the symbolism of Tilly's entire Dungeon Dragon campaign.

For example, what I found very different from the play was that when the interviewer asked:”What would you say to Mckinney if you see him again?” and the reaction of people was obvious, they were angry and saying that “I would definitely shake him, and ask him why would you do that!”. Through the layering of different scenes, it created more of a tense mood and strong emotions because we can see the reactions being put together instead of one after one. The directing of the movie was impressive, especially the scene where Aaron Kreifels talked to Amanda about how he found out that Matthew’s body was against the fence.

The poem “That girl” by Gary Soto has the theme of religion cannot determine your romantic interests. Through the use of allusion and repetition, the author exemplifies the theme. The boy in this poem is truly distracted by the girl he is attracted to. But he always fights his feelings against it because it’s not right in his mind.

“Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything” (Heller 115). Throughout tragedy primal values come to the surface of even the most civilized people.

Have you ever met somebody that has regretted doing something that they might not think they regret doing? Regret happens all the time but how people handle it is always different. Not everybody handles it the same. Even some of Jesus’ disciples have regretted things, such as Judas. Judas was the disciple that betrayed Jesus and turned him over to the Romans to be killed.

In Tim O’Brien’s novel, “The Things They Carried”, many details throughout the chapters created different themes that one must pick up on by reading thoroughly into the text. “The Man I Killed” and “Ambush” are examples of that with the common subject of the unknown created by the “fog” in both chapters. The fog represents the unknown and deception, and looking deeper into the text, one can see the philosophical implications O’Brien creates using the fog and literary devices to create a deeper storyline within the novel. Though “The Man I Killed” was a chapter before “Ambush”, the events O’Brien references back to in his memory happen before the events occurring in “The Man I Killed”, making more sense to begin at “Ambush”.

In the high school presentation of ‘She Kills Monsters’ by Qui Nguyen. Theme of the play is dealing with grief, loss and perseverance. Beginning in the play with the sudden death of character Tilly, little sister to character Anges. Driven with the loss and grief for her little sister Tilly, Agnes went on a journey to find out more about her little sister’s life after finding Tilly’s, Dungeons and Dragon’s module, realizing she barely knew anything about her except as a baby or toddler. Leading to the discovery of many incredible things about her little sister Tilly that made Tilly’s life so much more interesting than it seemed before her passing.

In Life, Many people are new to things or do different things than you; but you can't be mean because they are different from you. You have to be nice, maybe someday you will like how they do sports or what food they eat. In “Each kindness” the protagonist, Chloe is mean to the new girl Maya for being different and eating different foods. She doesn't realize how badly she has hurt Maya for saying no. In “Each kindness” by “Jacqueline Woodson” the theme is people should be nice from the beginning because Sometimes you can't go back to the times you did wrong; this theme is shown through Chloe being mean to Maya, Chloe finds out she was mean during the kindness lesson and she feels awful for being mean to Maya.

Even though the story is about her sister but the play was moving around her. Agnes was in grief that once she wished for her sister’s death and her wish came true. The play is a sweet story of friendship, loss, and grief. Agnes showed the depth of loss and grief with her facial expressions and actions. Their costumes were so fancy, shiny, and well-blended with fantastical characters.

When people are traumatized by an event they are pushed to experience the five stages of grief. The “Gospel”, by Philip Levine and “the boy detective loses love”, by Sam Sax both use characters that are going through one of the stages of grief. Levine and Sax both explain the thoughts and process of what a person thinks when they go through these stages with imagery. Levine uses symbolism, a sad tone, and a set setting in “Gospel” to illustrate that grieving takes you into a depth of thoughts. Sax uses anaphoras, an aggressive tone, and an ambiguous setting to convey that grieving takes you into a tunnel of anger and rage.

From the outgoing and optimistic Maggie Lacey as Emily to Stephen Spinella the drunk organist Simon Stimson at the church all of the actors portrayed their characters wonderfully. Even the chemistry between the families was very realistic. This being my first time seeing this play I was taken back by the pure theme behind the play, and how you do not realize it until it is almost over, just as in real life. As a young man it really makes me think about the life ahead of me and how I need to enjoy it while I can. “Our Town” definitely gets its theme across to the viewer especially

These aspects of the play work together to explore ideas related both to grief and acceptance. One major theme in this play is that different people grieve in different ways in order to accept a loss and be at peace. The four people at the funeral each let go of the past in their own ways.

The characters in the play are described in stage directions or in the dialogues. Sometimes reading long stage directions may become tedious and boring. But you can imagine how they would look or their tone of voice. In the film, you watch the scenario, characters’ body language and how they look (like their costumes), and you can imagine how the character

Also, I really feel like the doing of watching the actual movie in small clips helped many (especially me) understand the story a bit more because we would also take note on what was seen and get a clear view

Louise’s victory in accepting her husband’s death is a feeling that she now cannot live without. The ultimate death of Louise Mallard is one that represents physical and emotional defeat. In this dramatic short story, Chopin uses imagery to sew together a tapestry of emotions all encompassed in an ill-stricken widow. Works Cited Chopin, Kate. “The Story of an Hour.”