Dead Poets Society Notes

Notes on the movie Dead Poets Society

• ·        The movies start off with traditions and honors.
• ·        It talks about how many accomplishments the school has had in the past
• ·        The head guys tells a student that he has big shoes to fill after his brother
• ·        Neal Perry and Todd Anderson-students
• ·        The five students that are the “smokers” all form a study group
• ·        Neal Perry is told by his father that he cannot take any more extra activities during that term
• ·        Neal tries to portray that he does not care that he has to drop the annual but he really does
• ·        The teachers seem to be stuck up and very strict
• ·        The work is hard and the students are penalized harshly for late work
• ·        Robin Williams (Mr. Keating) is the only one that does not seem to be this way
• ·        He also attended Helton
• ·        All the students have to wear uniforms and they all board at the school
• ·        Carpe Diem- Seize the Day
• ·        All the students are in what seem to be a game room messing around
• ·        Knox says that he meet the girl of his dreams but she is in love with Chet Danburry
• ·        Mr. Keating tells his students to tear out the entire introduction of Mr. Pritchert in their books
• ·        Mr. McAllister came in and thought that the teacher was gone and asked the kids what the hell they were doing
• ·        Mr. Keating is the poetry teacher he is passionate about what he teaches
• ·        They all eat and pray before they have their meals and they have different clothes that they have to wear to the meals
• ·        Neil finds Keating and asks him what the dead poets society
• ·        He says that women drooled and they swooned them by reading the poetry
• ·        The students plan on sneaking out to read poetry to be like the dead poets society
• ·        The teachers smoke pipes in the class rooms
• ·         They all go out into the woods and light a fire that they can’t seem to get going they smoke cigarettes
• ·        One kid wrote a poem on the back of a porn pin up
• ·        Keating is funny with his teaching and uses funny voices to get his point across
• ·        He is standing on his desk to show the kids they need to look at things in a different way
• ·        He encourages them to find themselves before it is too late and takes much longer
• ·        He singles students out
• ·        Neil wants to audition for a play: A Mid Summer Nights Dream
• ·        Todd urges him to ask his father but he says that he wants to get the part first before he tells him
• ·        He have to do something and not just say that you are in
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