notes from "Dead Poets' Society" day 1 and 2

·         Neil’s Father is demanding and only wants it his way

·         Mr. Keating does not seem like other teachers because he does not have his students in the classroom and cracks a few jokes and is not boring and doesn’t seem like he’s all about perfection

·         Has students rip a page out of a text book because he says you can’t explain poetry in the way the guy in the introduction does

·         Has students interact with him

·         “we don’t write poetry because it’s cute, we write it because we are the human race”… say this when explaining why some who plans to go into business or medical needs to study poetry… what will your verse be

·         Other teachers don’t think students should be free thinkers

·         Dead poets society was a poetry club that administrations did not  approve of so it didn’t exist anymore

·         Group of students want to restart the dead poets society

·         One guy doesn’t want to read but is still invited to listen

·         The boys sneak out of boarding house and try to go to old cave down the road. They successfully make it out of the school and to the cave. The first meeting starts and goes pretty well but they don’t focus on poetry that all tell horror stories to freak each other out. Then tell poetry

·         Stands in different places to see world in different way (stands on desk)

·         Try to push students out of the box and make show they are useful and that there is a poet in all of them… tries to teach them life lessons with the poetry

·         Mr. Keating was warned to stop his unorthodoxed teaching methods

·         Neil killed himself because he felt like he was a disappointment to his dad and that he couldn’t do what he wanted to do in life

·         Friends and Mr. Keating are all in shock and grief… Todd wanted to think that Neil’s father murdered him just to think that he didn’t commit suicide

·         Neil’s death is breaking trust between friends and is ruining a lot of relationships because everyone is having a lot of grief

·         Mr. Keating gets fired because he “encouraged” the boys to start the dead poets society and went against Neil’s parents’ wishes and “lead him to commit suicide”… none of this was his fault

·         Students begin to rebel and stand up for Mr. Keating by standing on their desks and yelling “Oh Captain, My Captain” as he begins to leave the classroom because he was fired…. At the end he says “ thank you boys” and that’s where the film ends