Elements of Fiction

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Literary Terms

• Copy the next two slides of information into the
  Literary Terms section of your notebook

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Elements of Fiction Write this down

• Plot The Storyline
• Theme Main idea or moral of story
• Setting Where, when, why (context)
• Characterization
• Protagonist Main Character
• Antagonist Causes conflict for the protagonist

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Symbolism Write This Down!

• A symbol has meaning in itself, but stands for
  something else. However, a symbol is not what it
  symbolizes.
• For example, a dove is a bird, but when used as a
  symbol it represents peace. If the dove dies,
  peace does not die.

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Focus Questions

• Dead Poets Society
• Do not write down the question, simply answer
  them in your Cornell Notes for the movie

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Focus Questions

• What does the candle symbolize?
• What are the four pillars?
• Who are the boys names that are attending Welton?

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Elements of Fiction

• What does Carpe Diem mean?
• How does Mr. Keatings initial lesson with the
  boys represent a transcendentalist perspective?

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Focus Questions

• How does Mr. Keatings response to the Pritchard
  Chart on Poetry reflect transcendental beliefs?
• Who seems to be most affected by Mr. Keatings
  explanation of how the powerful play goes on..?
• How does Mr. Keating subtly inspire the boys to
  create their own Dead Poets Society?

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Focus Questions

• What were the original Dead Poets dedicated to?
• Who left the poetry book for Neil to find?

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Focus Questions

• What is the Traditional Opening of the Dead
  Poets Society, and by whom was it written?
• Who seems to be most resistant to expressing
  himself and whom seems to be most eager?

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Focus Questions

• What is Keatings explanation for the creation of
  poetry?
• Why does Mr. Keating have the boys look at his
  classroom from the top of his desk?
• What does Mr. Keating want the boys to consider
  when reading a book?

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Focus Questions

• How is Neils decision to try out for the play a
  clear example of Carpe Diem and its underlying
  transcendentalist meaning?
• How are the boys starting to embrace
  transcendentalist beliefs?

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Focus Questions

• What does the barbaric yawp have to do with
  transcendentalism?
• What did Todd Anderson do to be able to create an
  improvised poem?
• How was his poem an example of transcendentalism?

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Focus Questions

• What does Knox Overstreet do to embrace carpe
  diem?
• Why does Mr. Keating make the boys march in the
  quad?
• In relation to marching, how does Charlie
  exercise his transcendental right?

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Focus Questions

• Whats significant about Charlie changing his
  name to Nuwanda and inviting girls to the Dead
  Poets Society?
• How were Nuwandas and Knoxs recent actions the
  antithesis of Carpe Diem and how does Mr. Keating
  explain that to them?

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Focus Questions

• How are Neils actions regarding his fathers
  desire to have him quit the play not
  transcendental?
• Why does Mr. Keating want to teach at Welton and
  how is his reason transcendental?

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Focus Questions

• How was Knox not caring about Chriss response
  when he read the poem to her transcendental?
• How is Nuwandas lightening bolt a transcendental
  symbol?

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Focus Questions

• How is Neils soliloquoy at the end of the play
  really a commentary on his relationship with his
  father?

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Focus Questions

• How are Neils actions in the window symbolic of
  a Christ figure?
• How did the words Mr. Perry said to Neil before
  the play come back to haunt him?

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Focus Questions

• Why does Neils death symbolically take place in
  the winter?

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Focus Questions

• What is the deeper meaning of sucking the marrow
  out of life?
• Why does Welton view Mr. Keating as the one
  responsible for Neils death?

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Focus Questions

• How are the boys actions at the end of the story
  transcendental?
• Who finally embraced the notion of Carpe Diem,
  and why is this so?

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Focus Questions

• How did the boys standing on the desks in
  defiance of Mr. Nolan represent Thoreaus essay
  Civil Disobedience?

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Literary Terms

• Copy the following quote into your Cornell Notes

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I went to the woods to live deliberately, to
front only the essential facts of life, and see
if I could not learn what it had to teach and
not, when I came to die, discover that I had not
lived. I did not wish to live what was not life,
living is so dear nor did I wish to practice
resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I
wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow
of life.
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Literary Terms

• Answer the following literary questions in your
  Cornell Notes

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Focus Questions

• Who is the protagonist in the story?
• What is the main conflict of the story?
• What are a few of the major themes?
• What is type of conflict is the main conflict?
• Character v. Character
• Character v. society
• Character v. nature
• Character v. self

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Focus Questions

• What is the deeper meaning of sucking the marrow
  out of life?
• Why does Welton view Mr. Keating as the one
  responsible for Neils death?