Todd Anderson And Neil Perry

Leticia Rivera Dead Poet's Society 2513.002

Film Summation

In the film, Dead Poet's Society, we are introduced with the Welton Academy for boys, set in New England during the 1950s. This Academy's main focus for their students was set in the academy's four pillars: Tradition, Honor, Discipline, and Excellence. The boys who attend this school are put through rigorous classes that are prepping their education to eventually send them off to ivy league university's such as Harvard or Yale. Although there are many students that are involved the movie tends to focus on two freshman students, Todd Anderson and his roommate, Neil Perry. Todd is a timid introvert who doesn't speak his mind willingly till the end, and Neil Perry is an extroverted boy who is unable to
We think that in the beginning that Todd would be the truly depressed kid in the movie but we later find that Neil make drastic decisions that change his life forever because of his depression. The boys begin their schooling in each class, in these classes they are expected to finish large amounts of homework that is due the next day. Not surely aware of what their English teacher is like they discover that he is a new teacher that graduated from the Welton Academy himself. His name is Mr. Keating, and his liberal teaching methods had a concentration on showing the boys how to think for themselves. As the class continues to learn in Mr. Keating's class, Neil finds an old Welton Yearbook with Mr. Keating one evening. He shows the rest of the boys this yearbook and finds that Mr. Keating was in a club called the “Dead Poet's Society.” The boys decide to ask Mr. Keating what this was and he told them that it was a secret club where they recite poetry to each other in a cave less than a mile from the school grounds, the purpose of this club was to take meaning out of life. Neil and the boys end up