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Todd Andersons Choices
Throughout the movie the characters made choices, some were bad, some were good. Most of the characters made choices that were made because they started doing what they wanted, including Todd Anderson’s, which is the characters choices that I am going to evaluate. This is a very interesting movie filled with things that you didn’t know were going to happen and you are going to get to see how Todd played in the movie and why he made the choices. Todd made choices that helped him get comfortable with other people, help him make talking in front of other people easier, and to protect the people that he knows they didn’t do something wrong.
Todd made choices at the beginning of the movie and towards the end of the movie. A choice he made at the beginning was that he wasn’t going to go to the cave with the …show more content…
A choice he made at the end of the movie was for him to stand up for what he knew was right and stand on the desk and say, “Oh Captain, My Captain” when Mr. Noland was telling Mr. Keating to leave. Mr. Noland was telling Mr. Keating to leave because he got dismissed from his job because people were accusing him for Neil Perry’s death. Todd knew it was his dad’s fault because he kept making Neil do what he wanted instead of letting Neil choose. This shows me how much Todd has really changed throughout the movie, in the beginning he wasn’t very social and was scared to talk in front of people, but at the end he stood on a desk in front of Mr. Noland right after he said, “The next outburst will result in an expulsion from this school.” What Todd did was really powerful because he knew Mr. Keating didn’t cause Neil’s death, he was just telling them to be free and do what they wanted and what Neil wanted wasn’t what his dad wanted. A big reason why it was powerful is because after he stood on the desk many other boys chose to follow him and stand on their
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