Neil´s death- who is to blame?

 

At the end of the book, Neil Perry commits suicide. He shoot himself with a gun from his father. Normally, Neil was a very enthusiastic and happy person, that´s why many couldn't understand why he would do something like that. Why committed somebody like Neil, a person who is loved by so many people, suicide? What happened? Who is to blame for this?

If somebody decides to take his own life, something really bad must have happened. I think Neil thought about this for a long time and didn´t just does it. He had a very hard life, he always had to be perfect for his strict father, his whole life was already planned for him. He would go to Welton Academy, then to a famous university and then become a doctor. That´s what Neils father wants. But Neil is a freethinker. A unique person with own dreams for the future. He loved acting and he also was very good at it. The acting was his life dream, it meant everything to him. And he probably couldn´t live without it. His world collapsed as his father told him, that he isn´t allowed to do it anymore and he also isn´t allowed to go to Welton Academy, where all his friends are, anymore. His father took the only things from him, which he really loved. Maybe he thought, that it doesn´t make sense to live anymore if there´s nothing left to live for. 

But then, why did the school fired Mr Keating and blamed him for Neils death? Because they thought, that Keating had given Neil these strange thoughts with his strange form of teaching. Keating was a very special teacher with learning methods, no other teacher at Welton Academy had. And with these methods, he changed the students. But not in a bad way, with Keatings help, the boys developed well and not bad. The only thing Keating made wrong, was to let Neil clear up the things with his father all alone. Maybe if Keating would have helped Neil to talk with his father, the story wouldn´t be ending for Neil so early. 

In my opinion, it is very hard to say, whose fault it is. You can´t just blame somebody for the suicide of a young boy. In the end, it was Neils decision to take his life and only he knows, why he did it. But both, Keating and Mr Perry made wrong decisions, which led to Neils suicide.