The Breakfast Club Analysis

Through each director’s use and tactics in character development, The Breakfast Club once again remains in its own dominant category over Perks of Being a Wallflower. Yes, similar teenage characters with comparable personalities and identities are depicted in each: a jock with hidden deep-down emotions seen in Brad vs. Andrew, a brainiac with depression through Charlie vs. Brian, a beautiful girl on the outside with some underlying problems on the inside seen in Sam vs. Claire, and of course, the iconic troublemakers and jokesters of Patrick vs. Bender. But while Chbosky had to rely

Throughout the movie, Brian goes through the Identity Foreclosure, Identity Moratorium and Identity Achievement statues of James Marcia’s identity statuses theory. When Brian lives up to his obedient, “Good Citizen,” nerd image, he’s in the Identity Foreclosure status since he unquestioningly adopts his parents’ and society's visions, values and roles. He follows rules, questions rebelliousness and allows others to view him as weak for being a geek. Then, he transitions into an Identity Moratorium status where he delays his commitment to being the Brain and explores “alternative 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 once and for all.

The Boy In The Stripped Pajamas by John Boyne is a 2006 holocaust novel seen through the innocent eyes of a young boy named Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has shocking and unexpected consequences. During the novel, prejudice and discrimination are shown to have many effects on numerous of the characters such as Bruno and Shmuel, Discrimination, or in other words, treating a person or group of people differently, especially on the fields of race, age and sex is taken place by a multitude of people such as Gretel, by following Kotler’s decisions, Gretel is discriminating because she is supporting the Germans belief. Prejudice on the other hand, is another word for an unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially when formed without enough thought or knowledge. Lieutenant Kotler one of Father's soldiers shows a great example of this as well as discrimination while Bruno at the end of the novel shows he fights against prejudice and discrimination

The Breakfast Club is a movie about five students from Shermer High School who gather on a Saturday to sit through eight hours of detention. These five students; Andrew Clark, Claire Standish, John Bender, Allison Reynolds and Brian Johnson, have nothing in common. The Breakfast Club zooms in on the high school social groups and cliques that are often seen in the development of peer groups during adolescents. The peer groups that are portrayed in The Breakfast Club include, John “the criminal”, Claire “the Princess”, Allison “the Basket case”, Brian “the Brain”, and Andrew “the athlete”. The movie centers around an essay that Principle Vernon wants each student to write regarding who they think they are. In the beginning of the film, the

Example 1 – Andrew displays Identity Diffusion when he conforms to peer pressure and follows the acceptable behavior of the group. When the group decides to leave the library, he also follows even though he know the teacher has strictly forbade them from leaving their chair.

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?” as he brainstorms Mr. Vernon’s assignment for the students in detention; these thoughts are abstract. His thought processes are also logical since he’s extremely intelligent; being part of the math, Latin and physics club requires some advanced thinking skills. Additionally, he understands how concrete applications like engineering stem from abstract concepts like Trigonometry. He also reasoned that if he took a class like Shop that “dopes” take, he could pass that class easily to maintain his GPA; such reasoning requires complex thinking. Finally, his thinking is reflective, especially when he ponders the permanence of the Breakfast Club’s friendship and describes how he steps outside himself to analyze what he sees. Unfortunately, when he observes himself, he’s highly critical and despises his “true” self; he possess a highly negative view of himself, labeling himself a failure, eventually leading to suicidal thoughts and actions.

In the movie Silver Linings Playbook, Bradley Cooper plays the main character Pat Solitano Jr. The movie starts off with Pat being released from a psychiatric facility. Pat’s time spent in the psychiatric facility was a plea bargain that his lawyer advised him to make. The court only mandated eight months of inpatient time, and against the will of the doctors in the facility, his mother is discharging him because she thinks that eight months is sufficient time for Pat to become well. On the drive home Pat wants to stop at the library so he can pick up a copy of all the books that his ex-wife Nikki has on her high school teaching syllabus, so that he can connect with her and get his job back. When they get back to his parent’s house it

The Breakfast Club was a movie about five very different characters, Claire, Andrew, Brian, Allison, and John Bender. Claire was a popular girl, Andrew was a wrestler (jock), Brian was intellectually gifted, Allison was a basket case, and John Bender was a rebel. On the outside they seem like very different people, in fact they were all socially opposite, but they also shared so much.

The Breakfast Club is an inspiring tale of five adolescents: Brian, Andrew, Claire, John Bender, and Allison, from diverse backgrounds that unite over a course of eight grueling hours in mandatory Saturday detention. These five individuals come from different social groups and a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds are present, but in the end they discover that they are more alike than they assumed.

In the movie Silver Linings Playbook, we follow Pat Solitano Jr., a man recently released from a mental institution (Cohen et al., 2012). He is a Caucasian male, likely in his early to mid-thirties and of Italian descent. He was a high school history teacher, living with his wife, Nikki, an English teacher. Upon finding his wife in the shower with another man, he nearly beats the man to death leading him to be sent to a psychiatric facility for eight months with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. In this essay I will support the diagnosis of a Bipolar I disorder. A diagnosis of Bipolar I disorder, has specific criteria in the DSM-V that have to be met. I will be listing the criteria and through examples of Pat’s actions, thoughts and behaviours, he meets the criteria.

when watching The BreakFast Club you are able to seek most people have a dysfunctional family. Just when you think you are alone or that no one understands you. There are actually a few people out there who are going through the same but in their own different way.

One of the themes that can be seen throughout the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is racism and how it affected those living in the time period in which a large portion of the book is based. Fannie Flagg, the author of the novel, portays this theme in a variety of ways. One of the best examples being how two African American twins known as Jasper and Artis grow up to live entirely different lifes purely because of the shade of their skin. While Jasper is born with skin that has more of a tan color, Artis is born with a much darker complexion. This minor difference, although seemingly insignificant, has a massive impact on the lives of the twins in respect to the difficulties they face because of these characteristics.

The film is about a group of students who all have to spend their saturday in detention. The breakfast club exemplifies group dynamic in society because there is a brainiac, a jock, a criminal, a princess, a basket case, and a nerd. The five students in detention are all very different, with opposing backgrounds causing them to start as an outgroup. As the students get to know each other, and realize they all have similar issues, they grow a bond and become what we know as an ingroup. At the beginning of the movie you may have had an opinion on each one of the characters, but I assure you they were not who you expected them to be at the end. The shy girl who keeps to herself, and goes by the name Allison could be stereotyped as insane and a basket case, however with a little makeup can be seen in a whole new light. The jock, Andy could be inferred as a mean, muscular man, who will beat you up, but at the end of the movie he turns out he can be a kind hearted man. Claire identified as a rich preppy, privileged girl, could be stereotyped as being snobby and standoffish, but she changes greatly at the end into a kindhearted young woman. Brian the brainiac can be stereotyped as a nerd who gets good grades, one who even has a fake ID with the sole intention to vote. Brian turns out to be just like the rest, as he too is stressed about school and has an aspect of his life he is unsatisfied with. Brian had even gone as far as committing a suicide attempt. He too, desires to have friends. Lastly Bender a hardcore, jerk was stereotyped as a low life criminal who has nothing going for himself, he turns out to be genuine man with a heart. These five students however all share the same assignment given by Mr. Vernon to write a five paragraph essay describing

The character I related the most with was Simon. In the book, Simon is shy sensitive, and smart when needed. His personality would be one that would fit me perfectly. His actions throughout the beginning and middle of the book would most likely be what I would do if in his situation. Also, while Ralph’s

Twelve Angry Men is a film that was produced by Reginald Rose demonstrating a jury at work in a murder trial. The entire film consists of the dialogue of jury members convening to render if a delinquent, teenage boy is guilty of the first degree murder of his father. The jury sways from an initial 11-1 “guilty” vote to a final “not guilty” vote of 12-0 by the end of the film. Throughout the dialogue, important decisions were made due to groupthink and cognitive dissonance. In the end, the jury was persuaded to look at the case from a different light.