Dead poet's society

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The main characters are John Keating, played by Robin Williams who is the English teacher of the Welton Academy. This academy is a kind of High School for rich boys only. There are no girls in there. There is also a boy named Neil Perry. He is seventeen years old, like all of his friends. He has a lot of pressure to handle from his father. He wants him to become a doctor but the boy wants to become an actor. He never told his father about that, he always does what he wants and he doesn't give his opinion.

His roommate is Todd Anderson. He's a very shy guy, he doesn't talk to others easily, but he has a real talent at writing poetry.
There is also Knox Overstreet who is a normal student that fell in love with a girl named Chris. There is also four other guys in this particular group of friends. Charlie Dalton also known as Nuwanda, Richard Cameron, Steven Meeks, and Gerard Pitts.
All these guys are part of a secret society called the: "Dead Poet's Society".

The movie begins at the beginning of the year, all the students and their parents are sitting in a big room and the director of the school is talking about the four pillars of the academy, Tradition, Honor, Discipline, and Excellence. That leaves no place for originality. Then, the students go to their rooms and Neil meets his roommate Todd. The other boys I named before also enter the room to have a cigarette and to talk with Neil. At the same moment, Neil's father, Mr. Perry, comes in and tells Neil to drop an extracurricular activity because he need time to study to become a doctor. Of course, Neil wasn't okay with that but he said yes because he had no choice.

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[...] He asks all the boys from the “dead poet's society” to sign a paper saying that they agree that it's not the boy's father fault, but the teacher's fault if the kid died. He says that if he didn't told them to follow their dreams and to dare to be different, everything would have been alright. No one agrees with him, but finally all the boys sign the paper because they know that if they don't sign they will be kicked out of school and in addition to that their parents are also putting pressure on them. The result is that Mr. [...]

[...] In the movie, we don't know if they finally get to go out together, but in the scenes that we can see, we assume that she fells in love with him too. During the show, Neil plays very well, he is a born star and the public loves him. In the end of the play, he sees his dad standing in the back of the room. When everyone applauds, he doesn't move. He asks him to leave and he takes him home. He shouts at him all night telling him that he can't be an actor, that it will never be possible and that he has to forget all his dreams. [...]

[...] Todd is disappointed that he is leaving because he really likes this teacher, and he doesn't want him to think that he agreed with the director by signing the paper. Just before the teacher leaves the class, Todd stands up and tells him that he didn't want to sign it, that he wants him to stay. Suddenly, all the other student stand up on their desk to show him that they respected him. Even is the director asks them to sit down, they act like he doesn't exist and they stand still. That's how the story ends. [...]

[...] Dead poet's society Dead poets' society is a movie about life and the need to do what you want to do before you die. The main characters are John Keating, played by Robin Williams who is the English teacher of the Welton Academy. This academy is a kind of High School for rich boys only. There are no girls in there. There is also a boy named Neil Perry. He is seventeen years old, like all of his friends. He has a lot of pressure to handle from his father. [...]

[...] He knows he's not going to let him play, so he writes the letter himself. Problems begin when Charlie writes the letter to the director telling him that they should admit girls in the school, he didn't sign it with his name, but with the name of the dead poet's society. The director directly calls all the students, and he says that if the person who wrote this letter admits that it's him, he will not be kicked out of school. [...]