At the beginning of the film after the ceremony, the students are going through a forming stage where they are sharing polite conversation and are trying to know each other. Even on this stage Neil and Todd are already emerging as playing prominent roles in the movie.

· John Keating is the English professor who is introduced during the opening ceremony and has unconventional ways of teaching. He teaches his students to write poetry to express their feelings and to think for themselves. His passion was language and ideas, he believes in individuality and freedom. His character does not seem to change much during the movie, he is firm to his believes and use all kind of unorthodox methods to show the students not to conform even, to strive to be themselves even when other will disapprove.

· Neil Perry is a very popular student, bright and high achieving, he has a passion for acting but seems afraid of his overbearing father. He starts changing his priorities and getting more courage after Keating start teaching him on the importance of after discovering Keating’s senior annual and learning about the “Dead Poets Soci

· Richard Cameron is serious and loyal to the school and has trouble with the ideas that Keating is teaching. His loyalty is to the school and his character keeps about the same with what he believes is the right thing to do,

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.

Neil becomes the leader with the students when he wants to “reconvene” the Dead Poets Society and get himself and the other students into reading poetry. He also shows leadership when he disobeys his father and decides to participate in the school play.

4. What are the positive/negative effects changes on the characters?

Charlie Dalton shows leadership when he decides to write the article to the school’s paper and advocate for girls to be admitted into the school and when he took his paddling and still did not let out the secrecy of the Dead Poets Society.

Another positive effect with the changes is the methods that Keating was using that will attract the students to him and they will look up to him, but a negative effect is that Keating was expulsed from the school.

· Todd Anderson feels pressured for being the brother of a gifted person, he acts shy at first and is very insecure of his own skills. He gets transformed after Neil’s death and realizes the importance of being his own person and to think for himself.

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