Mr Keats And Todd

On the first day of the new semester, a new teacher arrives at the Welton Academy for boys, his name is Mr. Keating and he has a different way of teaching the boys in his class. Two of the boys that attend his class go by the names of Neil and Todd. Todd is painfully shy and constantly under fire from his strict parents. They expect him to live up to his brothers legacy by going to Yale and becoming a lawyer. Todd isn’t the only one that has strict parents, Neil is also under a lot of pressure from his father. Neil’s father orders him to drop involvement with nearly everything so that way he can focus on his grades and become a doctor, much like himself. Todd and Neil compare the struggles that they both share with their parents. Todd does …show more content…
They include, Knox Overstreet, Charlie Dalton, Richard Cameron, Steven Meeks, and Gerard Pitts. The boys don’t really know how to react to Mr. Keating 's lesson for the day, comments were being thrown around like “that was weird” to “neat”. The following day, Mr. Keating starts his class the same way any other teacher would, by having Neil read aloud the introduction to the poetry textbook. The book describes “how to rate the quality of poetry according to mathematical plotting” makes sense, right? Mr. Keating doesn’t think so, he has every student rip out the beginning of the book because he thinks that it teaches the kids to conform. The one thing that Mr. Keating doesn’t want to teach is conformity in his classroom. Mr. Keating is all about teaching freedom and living your own life the way you want to live it. Mr. Keating teaches the boys in his class the phrase ‘Carpe Diem’ teaching them to seize the day. The boys have never been taught this before, they have lived their whole life getting told what to do and how to live their lives, never having to make a decision for themselves because it has already been made for …show more content…
Keating has a variety of teaching styles up his sleeve. One day Mr. Keating has the boys stand on his desk so that they can “see the world from his point of view”. Another day brings another strange lesson that has the boys kicking soccer ball while shouting poetry quotes, why does he do this? Mr. Keating’s one sole mission seems to be to teach the boys about earning their freedom and not conforming to what they think is right. But what effect do these teachings have on the boys of Mr. Keating 's class? Well during their off time the boys did some digging on Mr. Keating. They find out that he was also a graduate of Welton and that he was in a club famously called the Dead Poets Society, shocker right? Well, the boys that are mentioned above decide to reform this club. They only meet at night after they have completed all of their classes and read poetry while smoking cigarettes. Some decide to go against their father 's wishes and do things that they aren’t supposed