The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club movie is about five high school students from Shemer High School with different backgrounds. It’s the story of “a brain (Brian), an athlete (Andrew), a basket case (Allison), a princess (Claire) and a criminal (Bender).” The purpose of the movie is to captive the feelings and perspectives on what other people have experienced and learned from each other. The analysis about The Breakfast Club is about the common insecurities and challenges of the teenager during
The Breakfast Club is considered a classic movie from the 1980’s. Throughout the movie different topics are presented such as stereotypes, education, family, status, cliques, and socialization. This film obtains major sociological value, and can be analyzed in many different ways. How the characters are portrayed at the beginning of the film, may switch at the end. This movie is a stretch of the basic high school detention, but can also be relatable. The film is about a group of students
Brian Johnson, or the “Brain,” in the movie The Breakfast Club, possess thought processes evident in Piaget’s Formal Operational Period stage in his theory of cognitive development. During Piaget’s Formal Operational Period, people begin to “apply their mental operations to abstract concepts in addition to concrete objects;” their thinking is hypothetical, systematic, reflective and logical (Weiten, 448). Brian asks himself existential questions like “Who do I think I am? Who are you? Who are you
The movie The Breakfast Club exemplifies many aspects of society and societal norms. It also shows how if you put your differences aside and focus on what is on the inside, you can find a lot more in common with each other than you would think. In the movie The Breakfast Club, the group dynamic is portrayed because all the students at the Saturday detention are from different walks of life. Each student is from a different clique. This is very evident in the beginning of the movie when they
Don’t Skip Breakfast! The Breakfast Club is a timeless movie centered around the very relevant concept of discovering your identity and breaking away from stereotypes. It is about a group of 5 defiant high school students who are all forced to spend their Saturday in detention. The five main characters include Claire (Molly Ringwald) the princess, Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) the brain, Andrew (Emilio Estevez) the jock, Allison (Ally Sheedy) the weirdo, and John Bender (Judd Nelson) the criminal
The Breakfast Club was a film created in 1985 and throughout the years proved to be a classic. The movie, centered around 5 students, all in detention due to their deviant behaviors. The principal, Mr. Vernon is the antagonist, tries to torment the kids, giving them a harsh Saturday detention and keeping them ahold in the school's library. From the beginning of the movie, their differences are shown as they all dislike each other, causing major conflict. Progressively as they begin to learn from
The film The Breakfast Club (1985) by John Hughes is just one story of the many that were popularized by the teen movie craze of the 1980’s. The comedy follows five high school-aged adolescents as they navigate their way through a day of Saturday detention that is not only atypical but rather an experience which ends up changing the whole perspective on the lives that they have been living. What sets this film apart from other popular high school movies of the time such Fast Times at Ridgemont High
ideologies” and sides to himself when he smokes weed and connects to the troubles and philosophies of the rest of the Breakfast Club (Weiten, 457). Finally, at the end of the movie, Brian achieves the Identity Achievement status where he grows closer to a sense of identity and direction after “thinking through alternative possibilities,” or hanging out with the rest of the Breakfast Club (Weiten, 457). After being accepted by others, Brian builds his self-esteem and values his life despite his failures
when we are young will reflect on us when we're older. To some this may be a good thing and to other this may be the worst thing that can happen to them. For my theory I have chosen to analyze parenting styles and connect it with the film, The Breakfast Club. This film is a great example to portray this theory because it gives us more than one parenting style within the film. For example, we have the five main characters who all get sent to Saturday school detention because of things they have done
The Breakfast Club is a film that exhibits many dynamics within society which are then displayed throughout school systems. Throughout watching this, I was able to relate some of these sociological groups to my own experiences within high school and analyze sociological elements and themes within the film. In school there are many groups that can be identified within the film. It is interesting to see how five students who are all in different social groups came together at the end despite these