Dead Poet Society Notes

·        Very invested in his students

·         The students are equally invested into learning

·         Doesn’t feel welcome with all the partyers

·         Gets beat up by a dumb jock

·         Enters an article in the newspaper in the name of the Dead Poets Society demanding women be admitted

·         Gets spanked with a wooden paddle as punishment

·         Neil’s father shows up

·         Tells him to quit the play no matter what

·         Tells Neil that he needs to talk to his father, tell him of his passion for acting

·         Reads a poem he wrote to Chris

·         Neil tells him that he told his father, but seems like he’s lying

·         Kris shows up

·         He convinces her to go to the play with him

·         She holds his hand during the play

·         Neil gets a standing ovation as his father watches

·         Neil’s father tells him that he is sending him to military school

·         Neil kills himself

·         School board is pinning Neil’s death on him

·         As he leaves, most of the students stand on their desks