neil, study group tonight? business as usual, huh? hey, i hear you got the new kid. looks like a stiff! oops! brain damage. think he'll test us on that stuff? what? what? big alumns. how'd you swing that? just replace these numbers here with "x", for "x" and "y". of course, so what's the problem? ahh, forget her. open your trig book and try and figure out problem five. we shouldn't be doing this. man most likely to do anything. what? wait a minute. sounds boring to me. you know how many de-merits we're talking dalton look, all i'm saying is that we have to be careful, we can't get caught. come on neil, hager's right- me too. i mean as long as we're careful. i don't know, it's starting to sound dangerous. on the mud? we're gonna put our food on the mud? i've got one that's even better than that. i do. there's a young, married couple, and they're driving through the forest at night on a long trip. and they run out of gas, and there's a madman on the- i love that story. you did not. i got that in camp in sixth grade. where did you get that? what are you guys doing? i'm sure-- you see this chemistry- hey, give me-- neil, give me-- don't be immature. come on. i need my- let me have my book, i need my- i love the clarinet. ooh. oh, my god! what? well, don't you think they're gonna figure out who wrote it? they're gonna come to you and ask to know what the dead poets society is. charlie, you had no right to do something like that. excuse me, just a moment. yes. you're so cute. come on, todd. i'm trying to fix this. getting red? what does that mean? so, charlie, what's this "getting red" bit? what's going on, guys? finked? i didn't know what the hell you're talking about. look, in case you hadn't heard, dalton, there's something called an honor code at this school, all right? if a teacher asks you a question, you tell the truth or you're expelled. he's right there, charlie. and if you guys are smart, you will do exactly what i did and cooperate. they're not after us. we're the victims. us and neil. why, mr. keating, of course. the "captain" himself. i mean, you guys didn't really think he could avoid responsibility, did you? well, who else do you think, dumb ass? the administration? mr. perry? mr. keating put us up to all this crap, didn't he? if he wasn't for mr. keating, neil would be cozied up in his room right now, studying his chemistry and dreaming of being called doctor. believe what you want, but i say let keating fry. i mean, why ruin our lives? you just signed your expulsion papers, nuwanda. and if the rest of you are smart, you'll do exactly what i did. they know everything anyway. you can't save keating, but you can save yourselves. we skipped around a lot, sir. we covered the romantics and some of the chapters on post civil war literature. i believe we skipped most of that, sir. that page has been ripped out, sir. they're all ripped out, sir. sir, we, uh- "understanding poetry by dr. j evans pritchard, ph.d. to fully understand poetry, we must first be fluent with its meter, rhyme and figures of speech, then ask two questions: 1) how artfully has the objective of the poem been rendered and 2)" ". how important is that objective? question 1 rates the poem's perfection; question 2 rates its importance. and once these questions have been answered, determining the poem's greatness becomes a relatively simple matter. if the poem's score for perfection is plotted on the horizontal of a graph--"