Compare and Contrast: ‘Dead Poets Society’ and ‘Day of the Last Rock Fight’ Richard Gust Ms. Fink The two stories “Dead Poets Society” and “Day of the Last Rock Fight ” have many similarities and differences as do cows and horses. They both walk on four legs, they are both mammals, and they both live on a farm. They also have differences in appearances, eating habits, and body functions. In this essay you will learn about many similarities and differences between the two stories.
The stories “Dead Poets Society” and “Day of the Last Rock Fight” have similarities and differences. In the two stories there are differences which include the schools the children go to. In “Day of the Last Rock Fight” there schools are k-8 th grade where it is all college kids in the other story. The students in “Dead Poets Society” go to school and live on campus.
In “Day of the Last Rock Fight” they go to school eight class periods and come home. The similarities are both schools are all boys. Both of the schools have a conflict and could see girls when they didn’t have school. The deaths in the two stories also differ. In “Dead Poets Society” there is 1 suicide and in “Day of the Last Rock Fight” there is 1 suicide and 1 murder.
The suicide in “Day of the Last Rock Fight” is due to the fact that the cops found that Peter murdered the bully. And in “Dead Poets Society” it was because of pressure from the family. The father wanted him to be something that he didn’t want for himself. The similarity is that all of these deaths could have been prevented by listening to each other and talking to each other. And finally there were similarities and differences in the activities they were into. The two stories differ because in “Dead Poets Society” the students stuck out to read poetry and in “Day of the Last Rock Fight” they went off to have rock fights.
The poetry in “Dead Poets Society” was harmless, it couldn’t hurt anyone, but in the rock fights someone could have lost an eye or even a life. They were the same because they both had to seek off in the stories to do the illegal activities. When the teachers found about what was going on in “Day of the Last Rock Fight”, Ronnie lied to cover his buddy. While in “Dead Poets Society” the students told the truth and went along with it in fear of being kicked out of the school.
There are a lot of similarities and differences in “Dead Poets Society ” and “Day of the Last Rock Fight.” The two stories were just compared as a cow and a horse could be compared. The two stories were very similar yet at the same time very different. By doing an exercise like this, it can open your mind to how different two things are, but if you look a little deeper, it can be very similar.