Compare Dead Poets Society and Day of the Last Rock Fight
...e 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 snuck 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 sneek off in the stories to d...