Continued notes on "Dead Poets Society"

• Takes students to the court yard and shows them that they can't always follow the directions of others. That going in another direction from everyone else is normal and their is more to life then following what others do.
• Charlie publishes an article in the school paper saying that the Dead Poets Society wants girls to be admitted to the school. He admits to writing the article and get paddled. Charlie is later asked to turn in the members of the society and that he will be forgiven.
• Keating gets talked to by the dean since he believes his methods of teaching are unothrodoxed. Keating is just trying to show the students that conformity is not everything.
• Neil's father finds out that he has joined a play and tells him he has to quit.
• Neil goes and confines in Keating after his father comes to visit. He talks to Keating about his passion for acting and how his father doesn't know who he is and what he wants. Keating tells him to live his life the way he wants to, tell his father what he is feeling.
• The boys and Mr. Keating went to Neil's play where Neil's father shows up to. His father takes him home and is withdrawing him from the school and sending him to a military school where he will be going to Harvard and becoming a doctor.
• Neil commits suicide.
• Todd and the other boys are devastated after the loss of their friend.
• Mr. Keating is being blamed for the death of Neil since he "put them up for it". Meaning he showed them a different view of life and how to be what they wanted to be.
• All the boys that were in the Dead Poets Society get brought into the dean's office. Where they are to sign a letter resulting in Mr. Keating being fired.
• When Keating goes to collect his things from the classroom the students protest by standing on the desks and saying, "O captain, my captain."