Dead Poets Society Notes- Part 2

Amanda Rogers
10/31/13

Dead Poets Society Notes- Part 2

·         Knox shows up to large house party where Kris is

·         Knoxs drinking, boys mention Knoxs brother, says he doesn’t know him

·         We see Charles making up poems to say to Gloria and Tina (girls he brought to cave)

·         Knoxs awkwardly sitting at party, drinking

·         Kris is laying down next to him, sleeping. Knox kisses her forehead, gets caught

·         Chet and Knox start fighting. “Next time I see you, you die”- Chet

·         Shows students drinking/smoking in cave, talking about school, college, girls

·         Charlie puts an article in school paper in the name of “DPS”, Neil is upset, wants to keep club a secret/exclusive

·         At assembly, school officials walk in angry

·         Talk about “profane and unauthorized article”

·         “Whoever the guilty persons are, this is your only chance to avoid expulsion of this school” – Mr. Nolan

·         Charles Dalton makes joke about girl being allowed at school, gets in trouble

·         Mr. Nolan hits him with a paddle

·         Mr. Nolan questioning him about DPS

·         Charles walks through the hallway, students starring at him

·         Chalres- “I have to turn everybody in and apologize to the school.” Insist that Neil calls him by his other name.

·         Mr. Nolan confronts Mr Keating

·          “I always though the purpose of education was to learn to think for yourself.” – Mr Keating

·         “Prepare them for education.”-Nolan

·         “There is a time for daring and a time for caution, a wise man knows which is called for” –Mr Keating

·         We see neil walk into the theater when they play rehearsal is

·         Neil running through the hallway, excited, happy

·         Walks into dorm room, his father is there

·         “don’t you dare talk back to me” “you wasted your time with this absured acting busness “ “you decived me” –Neils dad

·         Neils father tells him to quit play, will not take no for an answer

·          “I made many sacrifices to get you hear Neil, you will not let me down.” – Neils dad

·         Neil goes into mr keatings room, asks to talk to him

·         “I love teaching, I don’t want to be anywhere else.”- Mr K

·         Neil explains his father is making him quit play “acting is everything to me, he doesn’t know me” “he’s planning my life for me, he’s never asked me what I want” – Neil

·         Mr keating tells Neil he has to tell his father how he really feels “your being an actor for you father, playing the role of the perfect son.”

·         “Im Trapped.” -Neill

·         Knox shows up to school with flowers for Kris, wrote her a poem

·         Knox tell her he loves her, she rejects the flowers and says “just forget it”

·         Knox follows her into class, reads her love poem

·         Neil tells mr Keating that his father is going to let him stay in the play, he says he told his father what he told mr keating

·         “I think he’ll let me stay with it.” – Neil

·         Kris shows up at dorm to talk to knox

·         “you made a fool out of me.” – Kris

·         “you have got to stop this stuff.” –Kris

·         “it just so happens I could care less about you.” –Kris “Then you wouldn’t be here warning me about chet.”- Knox

·         Talks kris into going to the play with him, she agrees

·         We see Neil acting on stage, clearly enjoying himself, happy, passionate

·         Neil sees his father walk into theater

·         Knox reaches over to hold kris’s hand

·         We see neil on stage again, his father watching, neil appears confidents

·         Play ends, neils smiles, appears very happy

·         Neils father is furious, “you stay away from my son.” –neils dad to mr keating

·         Neils partents decide to take him out of welton, going to enroll him in military school

·         Neil try’s to stand up to his father, cannot do it

·         “I was good, I was really good.” – Neil out loud

·         We see neil standing at window, he closes his eyes, wearing his hat from play

·         Neil unlocks a drawer, pulls out gun wrapped in cloth

·         Neil has shot himself. Parents distraught “oh my son, my poor son.”- father

·         We see students finding out about neils death. They inform Todd “Neil’s dead”

·         Todd collapses, crying. Boys try to comfort him, he runs away from them

·         Mr keating in classroom. Crying, going through neils desk, finds book

·         Shows boys singing at funeral, crying

·         “Neil was a fine student, one of Weltons best, he will be missed.”

·         “we are the victims, us and Neil.”

·         They are after mr keating, trying to blame him for neils death

·         Charlie punches Cameron because cameron blames Mr. Keating

·         We learn Charlie got expelled

·         Todds parents are in mr Nolans office, they are questioning him about DPS, Mr Keating, try to force todd to sign paper agreeing neils death is Mr. Keating’s fault

·         Mr keating walks into classroom while students are being taught by sub

·         We see mr keating about to walk out of classroom, todd is ashamed he signed the paper, trys to explain this to mr keating

·         Todd stands on desk “oh captain my captain.”

·         Other students follow

·         Mr keating smiles, proud

·         Teacher yelling for students to sit down

·         All of DPS standing on desks

·         “Thank you Boys, thank you.” Mr keating