Dead Poets Society Rhetorical Analysis

Decent Essays
Jeneé White
10/23/15
Academic: 1 (Second Paragraph) When one is daring, it means that one is willing to take risks knowing about the consequences the person may have. When Mr. Keating was talking with the boys in the movie, ‘The Dead Poets Society’, he encouraged the boys to be daring. What Mr. Keating meant about being daring was to speak up in class, join clubs, have fun appropriately, etcetera. One should be cautious when being daring. When one shows a lack of caution, the person would go through serious consequences in which one could get suspended, go to jail, etcetera. For example, in the movie, Charlie smuggles an article into his school’s newspaper, demanding that girls should be admitted to the school so they could stop beating off in the name of the Dead Poets Society.

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For example, if your friends think it would be considered cool to spray paint their school. If you and your friends get caught vandalizing, you and your friends could go to the police station and might even go to jail. After jail time, some schools won’t accept you to go to their college and you won't get most of the learning you would need to be successful. If you and your friends don't get caught you may feel guilty and not feel great about yourself. If you chose not to vandalize with your friends, your friends might may done it without you and got caught or your friends didn't vandalize at all and you wouldn't face any

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