A Separate Peace 'And Dead Poets Society'

A Separate Peace and Dead Poets Society Compare and Contrast In the book A Separate Peace and in the movie Dead Poets Society, there are some similarities and some differences. In the book and in the movie there are common characters, settings, and themes. But, there is also differences in them as well. The similarities for the book and the movie are they both have secret clubs, the character Charlie in the movie is like Finny in the book and the character Todd from the movie is like Gene in the book. The differences are there are more adults figures in the movie than in the book, the main characters have different personalities, and Finny and Neal died for different reasons. First, is the similarity of the secret clubs, both the movie and the book have one. In A Separate Peace, the club was the Super Suicide …show more content…
Gene is like Todd in that they were both shy in the beginning, but by the end, they break out of their shell. They both come out of their shell because of the people they hang around. Finny broke Gene out of his shell by making Gene do all kinds of adventurous things. In Dead Poet’s Society Neal broke Todd out of his shell by including him in the things the boys were doing. Mr. Keating also helps Todd by making him speak in front of the class. When both Neal and Finny died, Todd and Gene rose to the plate and lived life more.
Next are the differences in A Separate Peace and Dead Poets Society. The first difference is there are fewer adult figures in A Separate Peace than the Dead Poet’s Society. In the movie, the adults were a major part of the story. Mr. Keating was a very important adult in the movie. He inspired all the boys and gave them advice to their life problems. However, in the book the story was mostly based on students. It was all about Gene and Finny's relationship. In the book, the students were trying to solve their own problems and look up to each