Dead Poet Society Day #2 (10/31)

new name Nowanda.

Knox kisses girl at party on forehead while she is sleeping.  Causes fight to start. Get bloody nose from her boyfriend.

Charlie publishes note from the DPS (without other members consent) demanding to let girls into the school.

Mr. Nolan has inquisition demanding guilty persons come forward of risk expulsion.
During school inquisition gets "Phone call from God." Mr. Nolan not amused.  Charlie Dalton gets punished. Spanked with large paddle with holes drilled in it.
Mr. Nolan demands names of students in DPS.
Mr. Nolan has chat with Mr. Keating about conformity vs questioning attitude.

Neil has confrontation with father over play, father demands he quit even though play is the next day.

Neil not from rich family like others.

Neil says he always wanted to act.  Keating says he needs to talk to his father.  Neil says he is trapped.

Knox brings flowers to girl he kissed while she is at school, and reads her a poem.

Charlie paints an arrow on his chest.

Girl goes to play with Knox.

Neil is acting when his father comes in to watch play.  Neil gets standing ovation after play.

Father comes to get Neil after play.
Father tells Keating to stay away from his son when Keating comes to congratulate Neil.

Neils father tells Neil he is going to send him to a military academy and to forget acting.  Neil gets into his role of puck from the play for one last time, then he goes downstairs and gets his fathers gun and kills himself.

Todd, Neils roommate runs off after finding out the news of Neil's death.

Mr. Keating read title page from his book that was in Neil's desk.

Mr. Nolan going to conduct an inquiry into matter for parents.

Mr. Nolan coax all kids in DPS into giving a confession implicating Mr. Keating after redheaded kid tells his version of story of which appears to be at least partly a lie.

Redhead, "You can't save Mr. Keating but you can save yourselves"

Mr. Nolan starts poetry class over, what is poetry. Finds out introduction pages are ripped out.

Mr. Keating comes in to get his personal effects, as he is leaving Todd gets on his desk and says "Captain oh my Captain"

Then all the members of the DPS one by one get on their desk and follow suit, with the exception of the redhead.

Mr. Nolan cannot maintain control of the class.

Mr. Keating smiles and leaves.



At no time during the movie did Mr. Keating participate in a meeting, or ask about the meetings nor was implied that he was involved in any way.  The Dead Poets Society (DPS) was run completely by the students based loosely on the description that Mr. Keating gave them when he described the DPS to them when they asked about the DPS.