Similarities Between Dead Poets Society And A Separate Peace

The novel A Separate Peace, by John Knowles was two boys, Gene and Finny, who become the best of friends and take on every problem together. This friendship changes when Gene causes Finny to fall off a tree and break his leg, ending his sport career which meant so much to him. The movie Dead Poets Society, directed by Peter Weir, was set in an incredulously rich school filled with the best of everything and a very high rate of kids enrolling in an Ivy League college. Neil Perry is a well respected student at this school when he meets his new roommate, Todd Anderson. These two become close and Neil tries to teach him how to act and behave. Even both these were produced during different times, they have a Brobdingnagian amount of similarities and comparisons.

Gene and Todd are both shy, reserved, and try to keep to themselves, whereas Neil and Finny are much more outgoing and are the risk takers. Neil and Finny both initiate the friendship in both texts and both Gene and Todd accept, feeling better about themselves. Neil and Finny both interact in actions that eventually hurt them. Both of these characters are the ones we feel bad for and hope that the ending will change somehow. In both of these entertainment devices, the schools appear to be a richer, higher education sort that is made for kids preparing for to become a doctor or lawyer. In Dead Poets Society, the principal speaks of how seventy-five percent of the graduated classes go on to Ivy League schools where they can pursue their higher education. In A Separate Peace, most of the kids who graduated went into the war. However it was halfway through WWII, and the kids had been told that their country needed them, but the school prepared them with a higher education. Both of these schools prepared their students very