![]() ![]() While other teachers force students to do homework and obey them at all times, Keating begins the year by talking about “Carpe Diem,” the idea that humans should “seize the day”-i.e., make the most of life while they’re alive. ![]() Keating immediately impresses his students with his charismatic, energetic lectures-in the first of which he stands on his desk. However, there’s a new English teacher at school, John Keating, who is different. Most of the teachers are extremely rigorous and controlling. Knox is instantly smitten, but doesn’t know what to do about his love.Ĭlasses begin at Welton. ![]() During dinner, he meets Chris Noel, the beautiful girlfriend of Chet Danburry, the Danburrys’ son. Richard Cameron is an uptight, conforming student who hates breaking rules Charlie Dalton, on the other hand, is an easygoing, rebellious student who loves breaking rules.Īnother Welton student and friend of Neil’s, Knox Overstreet, goes to have dinner with some family friends, the Danburrys. Perry, who insists that Neil must study chemistry, go to Harvard, and become a doctor. Neil Perry is a likable, kind student, and is Todd’s roommate Neil is terrified of his own father, Mr. As the school year begins, we meet Todd Anderson, a shy new student who’s transferred from another school, as well as Neil Perry, Richard Cameron, and Charlie Dalton-all junior-year students. The novel is set in 1959 at the prestigious Welton Academy, a Vermont boarding school. ![]()
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