The Breakfast Club by John Hughes, follows 5 unique students : the popular girl, the basket case, the geek, the bad boy and the jock. Forced to endure the restlessness of detention, the students are given an assignment to develop an essay that expresses who they are as an individual. After an afternoon of bonding, the student collective write : “You see us as you want to see us…each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club.” Despite the fictional aspect of the plot, The Breakfast Club is a prime example of high school life today. The behavioral efforts of students on a daily basis constitutes to a method of storytelling. In storytelling, the penman is of great …show more content…
Before African writers emerged, the world viewed Africa as “‘the antithesis of Europe and therefore of civilization”(Adeche, 1977, p.3) Joseph Conrad’s idea of a civilized nation is Europe, but his ignorance towards other forms of civilizations, lead Conrad to publish Heart of Darkness. Conrad’s interpretation of Africa in Heart of Darkness, being the only one at the time, created the daunting beastial stereotype of Africa. Though Conrad’s story does not entirely embody Africa today, his opinions still sway the minds of Americans today. Similarly, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie encounter a like situation where she fell victim to the single story of Africa. When arriving at an American Adichie’s roommate immediately feels pity for her. When Adichie questions her assumptions she highlights the impoverishment present parts of Africa based on a newspaper article she previously read. Adichie roommate's lack of knowledge prompted her to form a false opinion about African based on one story. When we only embrace one story, we fail to embrace the stories of
John Hughes’ 1985 film, The Breakfast Club, gives countless examples of the principles of interpersonal communication. Five high school students: Allison, a weirdo, Brian, a nerd, John, a criminal, Claire, a prom queen, and Andrew, a jock, are forced to spend the day in Saturday detention. By the end of the day, they find that they have more in common than they ever realized.
The film, “The Breakfast Club”, demonstrates the sociological topics such as socialization, culture, stereotypes, education, family, deviance, socio-economic status, and cliques. Five students have somehow ended up in Saturday detention for a total of nine hours. These individuals have nothing in common. As high school students, they are each stereotyped differently and placed into cliques. Claire is the princess, Andrew is the athlete, Brian is the brain, John is the criminal, and Allison is the basket case.
In the movie, The Breakfast Club, there are five characters that are to go to school on a Saturday, to serve a detention. While getting to know one another, each student has a different personality. Also, they discover that each and every one of them belong to “classified” group. For example, like the personalities in the movie, there might be athletic, girly, smart, odd, or trouble-making cliques that go through a school. As time passes by in detention, they manage to accept each other's’ differences, and become decent friends. This movie accurately depicts the type of isolation and separation that occurs in high school.
The Breakfast Club looks at young adults in their late teen years as they strive to figure out who they truly are and what they believe in. In the course of the movie the teens come to understand themselves and others better. This idea of self-identification follows closely with theorist Erik Erikson’s idea that at each stage in our lives we go through a psychological crisis and resolve it before moving on to the next stage.
High school is possibly the hardest four years of a teenager’s life. Teens are constantly being pre-labeled and prejudged before they even know who they are. These are called stereotypes and they’re made to divide people based on who others believe they are or should be. This becomes a main theme in the movie The Breakfast Club. John Hughes, the director, succeeds at breaking down stereotypes in The Breakfast Club by finding a common denominator between the five main characters which makes them realize they share many feelings and problems.
In 1985 a movie by the name of The Breakfast Club directed by John Hughes blew up movie screens; it portrayed 5 main actors of all different cliques who come to realize they are alike despite a few differences. John Bender, was one of the main character, he is an adolescent with an aggressive attitude. He is subject to domestic abuse by his father, and is a drug user, storing marijuana in his locker. As a result, he makes himself look tough. He has long, untamed hair and shaggy clothes. Overall, he is perceived as a “bad boy”, but as the movie goes on viewers are able to see that he isn’t so much of a “bad” person but actually a child hiding his pain behind his looks. John Bender is much like the narrator of the short story “Greasy Lake” who states “We were bad. We read Andre Gide and struck elaborate poses to show we didn’t give a shit about anything. “(425). However, the narrator is not actually bad, but puts up a front to make people think that he is. As critic Dominick writes in his article “The youths in this story are clearly rebels without much cause and without much real need for rebellion. They are clearly not the genuinely bad characters they think they are…” (5) Grace is correct in his analysis that the narrator and his friends are not “genuinely bad” ( 5). In the beginning of the story, the narrator and his friends believe that their clothes and attitude qualify them to be seen as tough and dangerous; however, the events at Greasy Lake illustrate that they are
Students in High School are being pressured every day for publicity. High school is usually a place where someone can find themself, a friend group they feel comfortable in. High school students encounter many different situations that may lead them into a series of downfalls through high school. Being in this facility, students are often categorized in groups based on their personalities, what they wear, and their social connections. In The Breakfast Club there are five students categorized into stereotypical groups in high school.Those groups are the popular students, the nerds, and the emo students. Sooner than later, these five students figure they all have something in common with each other; high school, and the pressure of their parents has molded them into the people they never wanted to become. Despite the differences between the students in The Breakfast Club, they share similarities that divides them into different groups throughout high school.
I have seen the breakfast club three times before taking this class and then saw it for a fourth time during class and I must say that it is defiantly one of my favourite movies. Before this class, I loved it because it was a fun movie depicting teenage school life in its simplest form and it was more or less something I could relate to. I noticed only the funny quotes; close calls and random scenes that made me say “Ha! It’s funny because it’s true.” Such as the scene where all the characters are in detention and they are all just making the dumbest faces, sounds and actions with their pencils. But after taking this class and doing a bit of theory on groups and communication, I realized that the film had a bit more depth to it. It was a
The Breakfast Club is a movie about five totally different students in high school who are forced to spend a Saturday in detention in their school library. The students come from completely different social classes which make it very difficult for any of them to get along. They learn more about each other and their problems that each of them have at home and at school. This movie plays their different personality types against each other. In this essay I will go into detail about each of the students and the principal individually.
Joseph Conrad once said, “The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” (Conrad, 1911) One of the greatest evils in this world are stereotypes. They restrict certain races, genders, ethnicities, and so forth into groups that reflect the judgements of what other people think of them. When one thinks of Africa, one thinks of tribes, uncivilized indigenous peoples, starvation, HIV/AIDS, disease, and poverty. Although these are frequently found in the continent, it does not reflect the beauty of the savannas, the uniqueness of the culture, or the abundance of natural resources. In the novella Heart of Darkness, Conrad reinforces the stereotypes about Africa by going into great depths
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
Through contemplation of Joseph Conrad’s complex descriptions and ideas of life in Africa, or the heart of darkness, it can be established that he is, in fact, not racist. Conrad was simply expressing the dark, uncivilized manners of the African people to contrast the light European hoi polloi and the unfair dehumanization of slaves in his time period.
Throughout Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart, Achebe addresses various criticisms stated in an essay written about Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. In the article, written by Achebe, Achebe mentions Conrad’s ruthless denunciations on African people and their humanity, Africa as being an antithesis to Europe, and further—western desire for things being in their place. Through these affirmations, Achebe argues mercilessly that Conrad is undeniably a racist, and that Heart of Darkness is a toxic novella, which through its poeticism and dense imagery undermines a race with utmost prejudice (“An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.” 1-8). Moreover, as evidence will show, one undoubtedly sees that these arguments transpire elegantly onto the pages within Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
According to Chinua Achebe, Joseph Conrad in his novella, “Heart of Darkness” represents Africa in an opposite way to what Africa really is. He says Conrad depicts Africa as different and unknowable in contrast to Europe. He views it as the exact opposite of Europe. Africa is viewed as uncivilised. Joseph Conrad’s novella eliminates “Africans as a human factor and represents Africa as a blank stage where Europeans enter an implicitly dangerous zone which functions as a plot
“If I didn’t know better, I would say you were jealous. But yes, honestly thank you. At least he didn’t try to pretend it was some wild coincidence. I really hate that.”