Knox Overstreet

Knox Overstreet attended Welton Academy in 1959 and was a member of the Dead Poets Society. He is known for being an ambitious, loyal and a hopeless romantic.

Biography
Knox is assumed to be an average school student with great records and parents as an alumni at Welton. He was a participant in several school activities, including Welton Society Candidates, the school paper, soccer, the Sons of Alumni Club and the Dead Poets Society.

Personality
Knox is a caring and supportive friend, but, in his infatuation with Chris, turns to be disturbing, including harassment, and humiliation in front of her peers. He loves his friends dearly, and channels his inner carpe diem to make frankly questionable moves towards Chris. He is also ambitious and a curious student in Mr. Keating's lessons.

Family
Not much is known about Mr. and Mrs. Overstreet, but much like his peers, Knox's future was chosen by his parents, with Neil noting him to be a future lawyer and will work at his father's firm. It is revealed that his father is a Welton alumni, and during Knox's visit to the Danburry's, it is mentioned that his father once worked with Mr. Danburry.

Chris Noel
Knox locked eyes with Chris in his visit to the Danburry's, it was love at first sight in his belief. But at that time, Chris already in a relationship with no other than Chet Danburry, who is a former Welton student.

After the visit, he tells his friends that he has fallen for the girl and got teased for it. After that, he plan to wooed Chris until she likes him. So at first, he make an attempt to call her but he hung up before she could start speaking due to his nerves. Then his friends encourage him to call her. He calls her and she invites him to a party that is being thrown by Chet at the Danburry's. Knox agrees to come hoping he can woo Chris. He showed up to the party with high expectations just to be ignored by Chris, ultimately getting drunk. Resigned to a miserable night, he settles on the sofa, but finds himself next to a sleeping/unconscious Chris. Knox assaults her by stroking her face and kissing her forehead without consent. In the book, he assaults her by groping her while she is kissing Chet. Chet finds out about this, and they have a fight. The night ends up by them kicking Knox out of the house.

The next day, Knox showed up at Chris's high school with a bouquet of flower and a poem he wrote in hope to apologize to her. He found Chris in her classroom and started to read the poem, Chris get embarrassed and warned him that Chet will kill him if he found out. This doesn't deter him, however, and he reads her his poem, despite her asking him not to.

At the night of Neil's play, Chris comes to Welton to see him, and he asks her to come to the play with him. She agrees. They sit next to each other in the play. The movie ends with their relationship being left as ambiguous but with the assumption they were together. In the book, Knox end up inviting Chris to the cave after the play and lastly they shared a kiss in the snow.

Trivia

 * Knox is accidentally called “Mutt Sanders’s brother” by two football players when he bears no relation.