The Breakfast Club is a movie about a group of high school students who meet in Saturday detention. Their assignment is to write an essay on what kind of person they think they are. There is a wrestler, a popular girl, a punk, a smart kid, and an outcast/ weirdo. Each kid in the movie is very different from one another yet they find some way to get along. Over time they slowly start to change. They develop different habits that they didn’t have before. In the beginning of the movie you see the parents…
Words 496 - Pages 2
a brain, a basket case, a criminal. The title “ The Breakfast Club” emphasizes that it’s more important to judge adolescents by their inside characteristic, not their appearance, the way they act and talk. The breakfast club stands for a way to be open up, to exchange the truths about themselves. Eventually, they come to a new understanding that they are willing to talk to one another, and listen to each other. They are from different stereotype, however, they…
Words 203 - Pages 1
form a unique identity encourage readers to challenge the status quo. These texts are powerful and life changing. The ‘Perks Of Being a Wallflower’, ‘The Breakfast Club’ and ‘I Don’t Know My Name’, are prime examples of literary representations of the obstacles of challenging authority, strain on relationships and conforming to societal stereotypes.…
Words 1434 - Pages 6
Writing 121 6 Nov. 2013 A View into the 80’s Released in 1985, The Breakfast Club sheds light on American teenagers and their day-to-day struggles. A comedy with a serious note attached, it is inevitably one of the great films of the 80’s. Director John Hughes incorporates emotionally true teen life, with his funny-but-serious dialogue, and character development that occurs throughout the film. The Breakfast Club is a group of five students thrown together to endure a nine hour Saturday detention…
Words 308 - Pages 2
The Breakfast Club ‘The Breakfast Club’ is a very successful 1985 film directed by John Hughes. The film is popular for the classic portrayal of the characters from a psychological perspective. The movie is an earnest attempt at exploring and bringing to light the unconventional themes of suicide, depression, materialism, aggression, social alienation, aggression, narcissism, physical and emotional abuse, through the realistic depiction of the behaviors, personalities, attitudes and issues of the…
Words 427 - Pages 2
In this iconic movie, The Breakfast Club, five students from high school were made to spend their detention Saturday in school. All of them had different reasons for the detention. They were called by their nick names which were the princess, the athlete, the criminal, the brain and the basket case. As the movie progressed, all of these students realized that they have to put their differences aside in order to survive the detention. The major struggle that all of these five characters go through…
Words 537 - Pages 3
especially when they are trying to find out their identity. Erik Erikson said that as we enter our adolescent stage in life, we go through what he calls identity vs. role confusion. This stage is very much shown in the movie many people love, “The Breakfast Club.” This movie includes a group of students who would typically be seen in high school including the brain, an athlete, a jock, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. Each of them is going through this identity stage of trying to find out who…
Words 544 - Pages 3
Social Penetration Theory in The Breakfast Club The Social Penetration Theory, adapted by Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor, is based on the idea that people are layered like onions, (Griffin 133). These layers are made up by different things that hide an individual’s true self. One’s true self can include his or her hopes, fears, likes, dislikes, aspirations and other things that one thinks about. For individuals to become close, they must get past all of the facades and disclose their true…
Words 2133 - Pages 9
Breakfast in 1985 The Breakfast club was made in 1985 and directed by the talented John Hughes. Anyone who has attended high school can relate in some way to the characters of this film. Principle Richard Vernon requests that five students, all in trouble for different reasons, spend a Saturday in detention together writing an essay explaining who they are. As the day goes on, the teens find out more about themselves while facing some harsh realities of life. Even though all five characters…
Words 913 - Pages 4
other, except the jock and the prom queen. Each kid stands for a typical stereotype in high school, a brain, a prom queen, a jock, a criminal, and a basket case. A unique bond connects them together with different emotions fermented in each of them after a whole day. All the five of them will remember that Saturday, they spend time talking with each other and learning each other. They will remember they are from the breakfast club. The prom queen is part of cliques, this is what it means, groups of…
Words 591 - Pages 3