Death Leads to MatuarityEssay title: Death Leads to MatuarityDeath Leads To MatuarityIn the entire life cycle of a human being, teenage stage is the fun, memorable, and some time the wild part. In this teenage stage, the teenagers experiment with everything without caring about the consequences. For most people, the life prior to the teenage stage is the most exciting part because there are no worries; every thing is fun. When the teenage life begins, most of their behaviours change while adapting to various habits. They follow good and bad behaviours as the result of influences from their parents, friends, teachers and the society they live in. These behaviours and societal norms combined with enthusiastic nature makes teenagers do various things. The result of their activities gives them the basic knowledge of the real world. Dead Poets Society, by N.H. Kleinbaum, and A Separate Peace, John Knowles, are two novels that focus on the difficult journey towards maturity and the adult world of the teenage boys. They focus on the learning experience of friendship and self esteem through the death of others.
Both John Keating and Finny (Phineas) are great leaders who face many difficulties in achieving their goal and often become the victims. Dead Poets Society opens with Keating being a substitute teacher for an English class and encouraging his students to make their lives meaningful and extraordinary by referring to the word ““Carpe Diem”” (25). This is the Latin word for seize the Day and he wants them to seek out their dreams and to believe in themselves. Keating believes that education requires the student to think for himself. He must be free to question and to learn in the way that he learns best. A Separate Peace opens with Finny being portrayed as a brave sixteen years old boy who strongly believes in and encourages other students in his class to act upon their wishes. Both characters are optimistic about making a change in other people’’s lives to make them better. Keating encourages the students to write poems to express their feelings. Finny on the other hand, encourages his friends to skip classes and do wild things like jumping off the tree. Neil, one of Keating’’s students, follows his wishes and disobeys his father. At the end, Neil kills himself when his father decides to take him out of school. Yet Keating is blamed for Neil’’s death and is expelled from his position. The persistent theme of A Separate Peace is the fall of a complex friendship. Gene was Finny’’s best friend, however a silent rivalry develops between them. Gene’’s jealousy towards Finny’’s fame and talent makes him push Finny out of the tree and down the stairs causing Finny to die eventually. Neil’’s death helps the rest of Keating’’s students to realize that they should stand up for them and fight for their freedom. In the same way, Finny’’s death makes Gene grow up to become a mature person. Yet both Keating and Finny are the victims while trying to change the society for the better.
Gene Forrester of A Separate Peace and Charlie Dalton of Dead Poets Society are both selfish, 16 year old teenagers who have low self esteem and always mistreat others to hide their emotions. Gene Forrester is a quiet, intellectual student who is plagued by the darker forces of human nature. However, Charlie Dalton thrives on the attention he receives from other people. He thinks that he is ““above the law,”” and, in a sense, has a ““God-complex”” characteristic. He feels that he should always be in control of the situation and that he should not have to face the consequences of any of his actions. Gene Forrester is a coward and a cold-hearted person who depends on Finny although he pushes his best friend Finny off the tree because Finny is a better athlete. On the other hand, Charlie Dalton is very loyal by helping Mr. Keating from getting expelled. Both Gene Forrester and Charlie Dalton have similar characteristics such as that they both want to act as the justice for others.
Neil Perry of Dead Poets Society and Gene Forrester of A Separate Peace are alike in many aspects but different in some of their behaviours. Neil is sixteen years old who is being pressured by his father to become a doctor, where as Gene is putting pressure on himself by thinking that his best friend is trying to distract him from studying. Neil and Gene both have negative and positive sides to them. They are both smart in school and they respect their friends very much. Also, both of them are cowards and dishonest. Gene is afraid to tell Finny that he pushed him off the tree. Gene lies to his classmates that he didn’’t push Finny off the tree. Neil doesn’’t have the courage to tell his father about the play in which he wants be a part of. On the other hand, Neil lies to Mr.Keating that he had already told his father about the play. Even though both Neil and Gene
reveal little, it makes me think that the play and documentary are not so different but we must take responsibility for our actions. This is how a few people get caught up in this story. If we give it a fair try then we are more responsible for what we do, for those actions we do not see. After all, we could be making a better statement. So what do we do in doing such a thing? We are all responsible for what we do:
What about those of us who do act in some way that hurt others. What does this tell us? Are we doing something wrong to the people that we don’t understand or do not understand? We must never accept that we are responsible for those things but not those that we do not. Let’s start with these people and what we are doing. Before I begin I would like to take a moment to address Dr. Dr. Neil Perry/Gene Forrener. He is a doctor who specializes in treating people who have a history of substance-related brain damage and addiction. So here is the part I want to address. Dr. Perry was the first medical investigator and the director of the Children’s Health of Minnesota Association, an organization in Minnesota that provides mental health services to children. It was Perry who discovered and analyzed the effects of high doses of amphetamine in childhood. As a result of this research Dr. Andres Perron, a member of the Children’s Health of Minnesota Association, was appointed Chairman of the Board Of Directors for the children for Children Foundation. It is fair to say that after the first two years of the foundation, I felt that there was much to be done to treat people with developmental disorder and addiction but this was the first big step we had to take in order to move forward. If you consider that it took 11 years and it took more than two million dollars for us to expand our research into children, then you may not believe how important it is. I guess this is to say that it takes a lot more in order to move forward in solving this problem but the truth is that there are many steps in place for us which will ultimately reduce the likelihood as we move forward. I believe that I have been able to bring about a world in which we do not believe that the brain is an enemy, we believe that it is just a tool we have in our toolbox. The problem lies in the lack of understanding and in the inability to make those changes that we have found so effective.
In the movie and its adaptation, Dr. Perry attempts to treat a disorder that is completely different from the child abuse, but then he fails. During the course of the movie one is allowed to become the abuser and this is done by using the techniques of learning through the use of repetition. In the films you become a puppet who can teach children all you want. In the movie Dr. Perry makes a series of mistakes and mistakes that make him even worse. Dr. Perry takes a group of children and gives them a few of his drugs. These drugs become too potent for their needs, so they begin to abuse each other. The two groups learn together; one learns orally because he would be too tired to do it, the other learns in a way that will enable the child to develop into an effective human. We’re doing this because we believe