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Dead Poets Society


             Charles Dalton is always the one to get in trouble and uses Keating's teachings as and excuse to rebel. He is the one to bring two girls to the Dead Poets Society meeting and dares to write an article for the school paper demanding for girls to be admitted into the school. During the movie his character turns more daring after Keating's teachings.
             Steven Meaks & Gerard Pitts are part of the Dead Poets Society but whose characters are of followers who are happy to conform to what they learn without having major consequences.
             Knox Overstreet uses Keating teaching to go for the girl that he likes, his character is of a romantic that only worries about love and romance and is not worried about what is going on around him.
             Mr. McCallister is a friend to Keating but his character changes with Neil's death and wonders how much freedom is too much.
             Mr. Nolan is the school's principal and his character throughout the movie shows his need for rules and regulations and not for the freedom and individuality that Keating is trying to teach,.
             Mr. Perry is Neil's father and is overbearing and pressures Neil into following his orders without allowing him to be his own individual person, he maintain his stubborn opinion until he is faced with his son's death.
             2. How did the people in the story react to changes?.
             Some of the students reacted in a positive way to changes but the older people had a harder time accepting the changes and the fact that Keating was using such unorthodox methods of teaching leveling with the students, showing and telling them that he believes in the truth. Nolan, the school's principal seems to be the one that has the hardest time with the changes that Keating is doing in the classroom. In the scene where Nolan sees the students marching and clapping he tells Keating that the school's curriculum is already set and it has been proven to work. He tells Keating that discipline and tradition will prepare them for college, not the idea of educating them to learn for themselves.


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