Similarities Between Charlie And Mr Keating

The risks and rewards of living life according to your own rules is clearly shown by Charlie and Mr. Keating in Dead Poet’s Society. One risk of living life how you want it is shown by Charlie. Charlie biked all the way to Chris’s school just to deliver a poem to her. The risk of this is that Chris’s boyfriend, who goes to the same school as Chris, said he would kill Charlie if he ever saw him again. Charlie is essentially risking his very life just to read a poem. In contrast to this, however, the reward of Charlie doing something so daring ends up flattering Chris into going on a date with him. Because Charlie was so assertive and did what he wanted, he ended up getting the girl of his dreams to go on a date with him. Besides Charlie, Mr. Keating also demonstrates the risks and rewards of living life according to your own rules.
Keating takes teaching the boys differently than how he is supposed to teach. He teaches very unconventionally having the boys rip up textbooks, play games, stand on desks, all sorts of things he’s not supposed to do. The school Mr. Keating teaches at is known for its strictness and discipline, and Mr. Keating risks his job teaching this way. In fact the different teaching techniques taught by Mr. Keating outrages the school so much that they blame Neil’s suicide on him causing Mr. Keating to get fired. He knew the risk of teaching unconventionally, but he saw much more value in the reward of teaching differently than his own job. The goal of this strange teaching technique was to convince the boys to be free thinkers, which he ends up achieving. Essentially, Mr. Keating gave up his job to teach the importance of free thinking to some boys, because he valued this idea more than material things such as money. Charlie and Mr. Keating from The Dead Poet’s Society both take the risks of living the life they want to, to achieve what they think is a reward they think is much more