Dead poet society
In fairy tales parents and children get along, but they do so less and less often in real life. Like many teens, I, argue, and rebel against my parents' wishes. To most people, this is a show of no respect and consideration to my parents raising me to be who I am today. After all, I yell at my parents, and don't do things that they want me to do, but I feel that it is part of growing up to learn how to make my own decisions to find out what I want to do in life. I learned from the mistakes I made in the past and was able to become more mature. In the movie Dead Poets Society, Todd Anderson and Neal Perry have yet been given the chance to learn how to make their own decisions because of their parents' interference in their life and decisions making powers over them. Although Neal and Todd seem to have responded to life very differently, both Neal and Todd have similar reactions to their peers, to Keating, and to "carpe diem". Neal reacts to his peers as though they are in the similar situation as him and that he could relate to them. His situation is that his parents control his life making every decision for him without asking him. He sees the same thing happening to his roommate Todd, so he offers his friendship to Todd by inviti
ng him to attend the study group. Neal also listens to Todd's problems. For instance, when Todd is depressed about what he got for his birthday Neal is there to listen. Todd is depressed about getting a table every year from his parents for his birthday. Neal is there to let him know that he understands what he is going through. To help Todd release his anger Neal helps Todd throws the table down a building. Afterward, Neal says to him, "Don't worry about the table you be getting another next year" to cheer up him up. In comparison to Neal, Todd's reactions to his peers are alike. Todd is also in the same situation as his peers, which are their controlling parents. Todd could relate to his friends, but he doesn't know how to express his feeling and is shy. When Neal offers him his friendship, he doesn't know what to say or how to react except makes an excuse for not being able to go. Todd tends to keep his feeling inside because he is scared people are going to laugh at him. In the meantime, when he is asked to join the Dead Poets Society club, he makes up an excuse that he can't because he doesn't like to read in front of people, but Neal got the others to let him join despite his excuse. Todd is able to express some of his feeling to Neal when Neal offers to listen to his problem. Afterwards, Neal gains some trust from Todd and their friendship becomes closer. Secondly, Neal's reactions to Mr. Keating's ways of teaching are daring because his methods of teaching are different and it grabs his attention immediately. For instance, Mr. Keating's idea of tearing pages out of the book just to make a point is shocking to Neal. Neal wants to be like Mr. Keating when he starts the Dead Poets Society club although he knows that he could ge
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Approximate Word count = 1175
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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