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Old School By Tobias Wolf, A Separate Peace

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This poster’s main purpose is to inspire and motivate the kids in all four pieces of art consisting of Old School by Tobias Wolf, A Separate Peace by Jonathan Knowles, Dead Poets Society, and Freedom Writers. Throughout most of these artworks, the protagonists struggle with their lives and how society perceives or will perceive them. As a result they are reluctant to break the “social norms” because of the fear that they will not be accepted. They are discouraged by society to follow a different path, take risks, and be theirselves. When the narrator in Old School by Tobias Wolf wrote his poem, “Red Snow,” he was reluctant to share it with the school because as he stated “I could see myself there, and didn’t want to. Even more, I didn’t want

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