The name Francesca originates from a French word meaning freedom. The story is based about her determination to find her true identity through becoming self aware. The author uses a variety of names for Francesca; Fran, frank, franie, because she wants the reader to show that when Francesca mixes with a different group of people she becomes someone else. Therefore the name is pertinent to the concept of the search for freedom.

Francesca speaks with bold words, She delivers sentences with power and emotion. She can be seen as a depressed or a powerful person. Francesca’s speech differs, depending to whom she is talking with. When she is with her dad she is called Frankie. When she is with her peers at school she becomes Fran, and her mother calls her Frankie the brave.

The Dead Poets Society is a film based on seven boys and a teacher who manage find a way to  escape from the regimented and monotous routine of a high society, all boys school.Robin Williams stars as a new English teacher (Mr Keating) at Welton Academy prep school who inspires his class to develop an apreciation of poetry. Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard), Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke), Knox Overstreet (Josh Charles), Charlie Dalton (Gale Hansen), Richard Cameron (Dylan Kussman), Steven Meeks (Allelon Ruggiero), and Gerard Pitts (James Waterston) take you down a pathway of poetry that’s never been taken before.

When a new English teacher arrives at Welton Academy, a new prospective on life is given to the young boys of his class. On first arrival he talks the boys through a lecture of poetry and the life it gives and strives. Asking one of the young lads of his class to read the introduction to their poetry textbook “Understanding Poetry” by Dr. J. Evans-Pritchard, Ph.D. ‘Mr Keating’ exclaimes that he finds the piece rediculous and tells the boys to rip the introduction out. In disbelief the boys proceed as Keating speaks the lines “Begone, J. Evans-Pritchard, Ph.D.” Later he has the class stand on their desks, reminding them that they should always look at the world from different prospectives. The group of seven young lads become interested in the past of their new teacher and discover “The Dead Poets Society”. Becoming interested in the free ways of this newly found group the boys begin to sneak out at night and read poetry, quoting Henry David Thoreau “I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived”. The boys continue their nightly groupings and begin to use poetry more within’ their lives. Soon one boy takes it to far and The Dead Poets Society begins to fall, with all seven boys taking a new turn in life that teaches them the feeling of sorrow, pain, and disbelief.