Using at least one complete sentence for each, answer the following questions: In the 1992 film School Ties, starring Matt Damon 1.) What is the plot? (Beginning, middle, end) 2.) What is the main conflict? (Type & Description) 3.) What is the theme? 4.) Who is the target(s), perpetrator(s), bystander(s), and ally(ies)?

This 1992 film is set in the 1950s and revolves around a Jewish boy, David, whose football ability wins him a sports scholarship to an exclusive boarding school when he is in his senior year of high school. However, he quickly finds that the school is generally anti-Semitic, so he pretends not to be Jewish in order to fit in. Unfortunately, tension over a girl named Sally, who takes a liking to David, leads to the other boys jealously abusing David when his Jewish background is discovered. David feels increasingly unhappy at school.
Meanwhile, one of David's first friends at school, Dillon, who has turned against him since discovering his heritage, cheats on an exam in an attempt to please his demanding family with good grades. Unfortunately, his cheat sheet is discovered, although in an ambiguous way which leaves its owner unclear. When the teacher says that he will fail all the students if the cheater does not confess, David reveals that he knows what Dillon has done and tries to get him to confess. However, Dillon betrays him, telling the class that David was the cheater. The class is then asked to resolve the standoff by voting as to who the real cheater is; their anti-Semitism leads them to point to David as the cheater.
Ultimately, however, David is exonerated: he goes to confess his "sin" to the headmaster, only to find that the class prefect, who knew what had really happened, has told him already that Dillon was the real villain. Dillon is expelled from the school. His final words to David are that this will not affect his future in any real way, while David will "always be a Jew," but David has learned his own worth by this point and knows that Dillon will always be "a prick."
The plot is relatively straightforward. Its overriding theme is concerned with anti-Semitism specifically—prejudice more broadly—and its central conflict is the issue of the cheating student, although there are other subplots and instances of conflict, such as the fact that Dillon believes David has "stolen" Sally from him, driving his ire to greater heights. David does have some allies (namely his friend Reece, and ultimately the class prefect, Van Kelt), but he is very much the target of bullying from all the other characters he once thought were his friends. In differentiating between "bystanders" and "perpetrators," you may wish to think about which members of the gang (Dillon, specifically) targeted David with their hatred explicitly and which simply stood by and allowed it to happen.