thinking about the line "i've been thrown to the wolves of the community" in 'high school is killing me'. for one, it acts as a preceeding metaphor to 'literal monster'; the idea of max being a predator is carried throughout the whole musical, and introduced from the very first number. secondly, it reminded me of the sycamore timberwolves in tgwdlm. y'know, the "we hated you guys!"/"we hated ourselves" school paul went to? probably over-analysing again but this could potentially tie into the fact that literally no-one at hatchetfield high is happy, not even max- everyone hates themselves there too, and hates max. they want to have a nice, bullying-free environment like the one there after max dies, they don't want him there. he's like a timberwolf himself