dead poets society

This fiction story takes place at Welton Academy, a private school only for boys in Vermont, USA in the year 1959.



One of the main characters is Mr. John Keating. He is the new English professor at Welton. When he was young, he was a student of this school and now he comes back in order to try teaching differently than all the others. And he succeeds in doing that. He wants the pupils not to simply read and interpret the poems famous poets have written, but he wants them to write poems themselves. He wants them to become individual persons, to forget acting how they get told to and make their lives extraordinary. Mr. Keating is an enthusiastic person. He really wants to reach his aims and nearly does everything for that. When he comes into class for the first time, to confuse the boys and make them paying attention, he is wearing a shirt and a tie but no jacket, like all the other teachers. He is sitting in front of the room, staring out the window and not saying a word. To conv...