Neil Perry Essay

Neil Perry's Big Choice The focus point in my essay, and the character I took the most interest in was Neil Perry. The poem I used to relate to Neil was the poem “The road not taken” by Robert Frost. This character overcomes the fear of actually being in the play. He didn't know what was going to happen, and the future was not clear. Neil finally goes for it by doing the play, even though he wasn't supposed to. He can't see the outcome yet hopes for the best one.This is just like the in frost poem “The road not taken” in line (4-5), ”And looked down one as far as I could/to where it bent in the undergrowth”. The relationship I seen between Neil, and his father was a very tense one. He respects his father, and he is unsure to whether he should follow his own dream or his father’s. Should he risk his own happiness for his fathers, or would he rather disobey him to follow what he loves? This dilemma relates to the one in frost's poem where he says “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood/and sorry I could not travel both”(1-2).Both being his dream and his father's. From my own experience, I too can connect to a few lines in Frost's poem. When he says “Oh I kept the first for another day/yet knowing how way leads to way/I doubted if I should ever come back”(13-15). When I was a freshman I had a choice …show more content…
Neil Perry choose to take his own life, while this was convenient to him he also hurt a lot of people in the process. He put his friends in a hard place, hurt Mr keating's career, and of course hurt his father, and mother. Him committing suicide was definitely a huge choice that not many take so soon. I relate this to the poem “the road not taken” where Frost says “I took the one less traveled by/and that has made all the difference”(19-20). This difference in Neil's case was a bad one in my opinion, because he hurt his future, and those around