The Breakfast Club is a Coming-of-Age Film

In this day and age, society has built standards to how citizens should look, talk, wear, behave etc through social media, films, celebrities, friends and family. The youth has now taken place in this and now feel that if they did not meet society's standards, they aren’t beautiful or handsome. Some leaders and motivational speakers are good at telling others to love themselves and to accept how they look. Nevertheless there are still those who need to seek help and those who beat themselves up because of how they are. However is social conformity really the key to happiness? Social conformity is notoriously found in the book Uglies where turning 16 gives you the opportunity to undergo plastic surgery to change your appearance into a “pretty” look. Tally Youngblood is a rare example of a 16 year old girl who hasn’t undergo plastic surgery and was sent to the Smoke, a small town where those who don’t believe in plastic surgery or the society's ambitions go to live like the people of today. However Shay, a friends of Tally’s, is an example of an “ugly” who has a very strong opinion about the surgery, a very negative opinion about it.

1985 and 2004 may seem like two very different eras, with different problems and views of life. The films The Breakfast Club (TBC) and Mean Girls (MG) are quite different from one another, however, they seem to grasp the same concept and problems faced by youth. Although these films somewhat mirror one another, the films also have many differences such as, the topic of sexuality, attire, and ethics and morals. MG and TBC portray youth in similar ways, however are in two very different time periods. Characters in the films are portrayed very differently from one another, however some of these characters both share the same thoughts or morals despite being from two different eras. Generation change between these movies are very different from

The Breakfast Club is a wonderful example of pubertal timing in adolescents. Throughout the film the viewer can see where the characters are at in their development as well as the impacts of their pubertal timing. The Breakfast Club highlights physical changes, relationships with parents, relationships with peers, and the timing of early and late maturation. Claire is portrayed as the stereotypical popular girl and can be described as an early maturing girl. She wears expensive clothes, diamond earrings and wealthy accessories. Throughout the film, Claire relies solely on her looks, and is viewed as conceited, privileged and spoiled. Claire shows characteristics of an early maturing girl because she is strongly influenced by social and cultural views. Claire says in the film, “Your friends wouldn 't mind because they look up to us.... I 'm not saying that to be conceited! I hate it! I hate having to go along with everything my friends say!” Claire is aware of her social status among her peers and holds herself to higher expectations to uphold her reputation. She states, “Do you know how popular I am? I am so popular. Everybody loves me so much at this school.” To fit in with her peers, she must act a certain way in public to impress them. Claire is

The film The Breakfast Club is a movie about how five high schools of all different stereotypes have to meet on a Saturday detention. It’s a very well made movie and is easily relatable in multiple senses. In the end though they eventually pour their hearts out to each other and find out that they have more in common than they thought. Multiple sociological concepts or principles can be applied to this movie also.

The movie The Breakfast Club was released in 1985, and is based on a group of five high school students from stereotypical cliques; the popular, jock, nerd and the outcasts, who all wind up stuck together for Saturday detention. Throughout the movie many themes present themselves such as teenage rebellion, peer pressure and family issues as the students get to know each other. The most prominent theme throughout the movie is the student’s placement in the social structure of the school. From the very different reasons why they are in detention to the way that they are all treated differently by the principle, their social placement is evident.

The Breakfast Club is a movie that was directed by John Hughes, and was released in the spring of 1985. It is about five teenagers from different worlds, who all come together on a Saturday for detention. The movie is filled with a multitude of scenes that may apply to many of the course concepts found in Interpersonal Communication.

The iconic coming-of-age movie The Breakfast Club, focuses on the development of five, seemingly very different high school students. In the movie we are presented with the five main characters all with stereotypes that they identify with. Claire is the princess or the beauty queen, John, often referred to by his last name “Bender,” is the criminal, Brian is the brain or the nerd, Andrew, is the athlete, a wrestler , and finally Allison is the basket case or the weirdo. The story is set in saturday detention where they are forced to spend eight hours with people from other cliques that they would normally never interact with. The day progresses and the characters interact with one another, smoke, dance, break rules, and reveal very personal parts of themselves with the others. The story ends with some of the characters making an attempt to change their identity with the realization that even with the boxes they have been put into they are not that different from one another.

The Breakfast Club is a classic 1980’s film depicting the various lives of a group of extremely diverse high school students; each dealing with and trying to overcome their own obstacles and challenges. Despite the initial conflict between the characters due to them all coming from different backgrounds and social cliques, they soon learn that they are not all so different from one another and are each struggling with similar problems within themselves and their personal lives. They eventually learn to accept the differences between each other and realize the falseness of some of their internalized values and stereotypes that they hold against others and themselves. The Breakfast club perfectly exhibits how stereotypes effect our lives, illustrates

In Sixteen Candles and The breakfast club we see so much in common as well as differences present. These 2 John Hughes movies were a big hit in the Directors career, as well as Pretty in Pink but we are not discussing that movie. In these movies we see a lot of themes crossed over that are explored in many different ways. One of the main characters for both these movies was Molly Ringwald; we really showed and expressed these ideals of her characters perfectly. There were many themes that we can compare and contrast these movies. The 4 main themes that I believe really made impacts on these shows are: rich vs. poor, popular or unpopular, changing to fit the ‘norm’, and Common similarities between social classes. Hughes is an amazing director that really captures these moments in each theme; he captures them and presents them at the most unexpected times in the movies that fit perfectly.

Breakfast club is a story of 5 different people who are forced to spend an entire Saturday together learn a little something about each other. The Jock, The Brain, The Basket-case, The Princess, and The Criminal. Brian Johnson (Anthony Michael Hall) is the brain a straight A student who seems like he shouldn't be there, Andrew Clark (Emilio Esteves) who seems like your typical jock who seems like the guy who would end up there every now and then, also you have Allison Reynolds (Ally Sheedy) who seems kind of like your everyday emo person who seems like a person who might end up there more than once a month, then Clair Standish (Molly Ringwald) the princess who looks like the girl who would never

To not judge someone by their appearance is an important idea in the film because it teaches how it may affect the person you are judging and how damaging it could be for someone’s mental state.

“Enhancing Your Body Image” (2015) discusses the impact popular culture has on women strive to have Twiggy’s body and men hope to be the tough guy like Clint Eastwood (p.340). People are willing to alter their appearance physically; for example, people try to lose weight or change their personality by playing sports or instruments to find the sense of belonging. Society has a fascination of trying to belong within a social group.

People are judged for their appearance all over the world, every day. People with brown, ragged clothes are assumed to be less intelligent, or homeless. People with long hair are assumed to be female. There are many stereotypes that limit the social actions of many people, and it is not just in real life. Rodman Philbrick shows that these stereotypes are not always true in the book “Freak The Mighty” in the form of Maxwell Cane, Kevin, Loretta, and Iggy Lee. All of those characters are misjudged by others, and in some cases, even by themselves. The message that your appearance does not determine who you are is very important, and applies to everyone everywhere.

An enduring problem in today’s society, especially with children, has to deal with sociality. Public appearance is very important to us and when we don’t look good, or have a low self-esteem, it can lead to further issues,

Body-shaming has been tied to many different disorders like anxiety, depression, anorexia and more. “According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD), at least 30 million people of all ages and genders suffer from an eating disorder in the U.S., resulting in at least one death every 62 minutes” (Abrams). Teenagers seeing photoshopped celebrities everyday on their screens and in magazines makes them believe that’s what they need to look like when in reality their body is perfectly fine. School is a place where teenagers are stressed with the constant strain of trying to be the best out of all of their peers. It is seemingly obvious that some sort of standard needs to be met in