Each character in the Breakfast Club plays a role within their group at detention each representing a stereotypes. Main characters John, Brian, Andrew, Clarise, and Allison must all work together to have avoid being miserable in detention on Saturday morning despite their different socioeconomic background and personalities. Throughout the movie, each character begins to change as more information is gathered about themselves; the characters change their behavior in the social group to conform to socially acceptable behavior. John represents the stereotype of a rebel until more of his personality is revealed. Upon arrival John refuses to respect the principal who is the advisor of detention; he invokes anger within the principal by disregarding …show more content…
Andrew is passionate competitive wrestler who possesses the athletic prowess to dominate others physically. However, we learn that Andrew doesn’t possess a mind of his own and is easily influenced by others. Andrew is in detention because his father influenced him to humiliate peers who are unable to defend themselves. After Andrew feels remorse for how he embarrassed a classmate at school in front of a crowd of people. Allison points out how Andrew doesn’t have a mind of his own and emphasises how his father makes a lot of decisions for himself. Andrew has always been encouraged to be superficial and assimilate himself with a group blindly. Furthermore, Andrew begins to realize he doesn’t need to conform because he is happy without fulfilling the goals that his father has set for him. Likewise, in a group Andrew learns how to set himself apart for what he believes such as when threatens to retaliate against John if he is disrespectful to Clarise. Therefore, we see a lot of change in the development of Andrew’s character when he branches away from the goals set for him by others and decides to create his own goals for …show more content…
At home her divorced parents get into many conflicts and she is the center of conflict forced to frequently choose sides. Feeling taken advantage of by parents at home, Clarisse tries to gain additional attention and approval from her peers. She tries to fit in with other popular girls by acting a certain way to reassure herself that she belongs and is supported. She flaunts her father's wealthy to prove her hierarchy over others, proving she is superior to others and that she is entitled to be popular due to her socioeconomic background. After opening up and suggesting how her parents don’t pay much attention to her unless it involves her parents personal benefits, she begins to realize searching for approval through conformity isn’t justifiable. Clarisse is tired of following her friends and not being able to have more control of her life, but is still hesitant in the beginning. Her peers further encourage her to set herself apart from the rest of the group support her own individuality. Clarisse learns to think about her peers instead of herself which makes her more aware of how she previously treated people poorly. Therefore, Clarisse changes from being queen bee to a reasonable person who is considerate towards
In all of our lives there are goals we have, values we possess, and strengths and weaknesses that make us who we are. All of us, no matter if we are a jock, or a brain, someone who succeeds in education, or someone who wants so badly to get out, face barriers in our lives. Some of us come from broken families, some us of come from abusive situations, but all of us have a unique and individual story. At the heart of this story are the struggles we have experienced, the people we have associated ourselves with, and the lessons we have learnt along the way. Such can be said about my own life, and the lives of the characters from the Breakfast Club. The characters from the Breakfast Club that I feel most represent me are: Claire Standish (The
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
The groups that are formed as adolescents often determine group associations as adults and define an individual within their social group that will either set them with or against other groups. This is described in an article on social groupings by Colin Allen, which mentions that our social associations as adolescents are strong indicators to future patterns of social norms as adults. Therefore, the group of students in the movie, The Breakfast Club, can also be extrapolated to adult group dynamics. However, the varying social norms between groups can present conflicts when adults are required to function within a very diverse group of individuals. In The Breakfast Club, the Jock, Geek, Prom Queen, Delinquent, and the Freak groups are brought together initially through an autocratic or directive leadership role, used to bring the group together in order to proceed to the next phase of group development. This stage is particularly important within a group of
her household she resorts to outside sources, making herself a victim to boys, which creates a
In the story, you can see that john is passive men that try’s to avoid conflicts in any way possible. There was when john lied to the stranger and also his boss about what the stranger wanted so that it wouldn’t make Mr. Berry upset. Also, when John agrees with Mr. Barry about his son broke his plants knowing that it wasn’t actually his son and that some white bully threw it up there, but instead went along with it to avoid conflict. John is trying to protect his love one and those around him which makes him passive.
Five teens, five different cliques, one eight-hour Saturday detention. These is the basics of The Breakfast Club. Through spending the day with one another Allison, Andrew, Brian, Claire and John realize there isn’t much difference between them, and the differences that are between them aren’t too important. Watching The Breakfast Club is a great way to learn about adolescents. You have five, very different -yet very similar- adolescents to observe along with what they do together. In observing them you can understand how they’re beginning to cognitively develop from children to adults
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 high school. The Breakfast club is a movie to convey emotions, fears, and companionship that everyone can relate to. However, with new knowledge comes new perspective and emotions. This movie opens up a world of abstract thoughts because none of the five students know each other and it helps to create an interpersonal communication, they revealed to each other how their lives actually are. This movie is about Social Judgment Theory, Interpersonal conflict, self-disclosure, Social Comparison Theory and an unresolved life conflicts of a teenager life by finding their identities.
The film, The Breakfast Club, introduces five students, each perceived with a different stereotype which is commonly found in American high schools. A stereotyped student is often also labeled with biased expectations. In The Breakfast Club, biased expectations are seen in several characters. For example, John Bender, identified as the "criminal," is the average high school trouble maker. A fellow detention student, Andrew, tells Bender, "you don 't even count " and "You may as well not even exist at this school" (Hughes). These statements indicate to the viewer that his peers assume there is no reason for Bender to attend school. Furthermore, a teacher, Mr. Vernon, also shows his biased expectations of Bender when he says to look at Bender in five years and he won 't amount to much. Unfortunately, this teacher 's statement shows that he has already written off Bender 's future. He
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.
According to Erik Erikson, he identifies the task of an adolescent as identity versus role confusion. This is where adolescent tries to form their personal and social identity. Some adolescents may adopt the values and beliefs of their parents; however, others may develop their identities from peers and oppose the values and beliefs of their parents. Adolescence who are emerging into adulthood struggles to confine with their psychological, cognitive, social, and emotional development. During this time period, there are five distinctive characters of emerging adulthood: age of identity explorations, age of instability, self-focused, age of feeling in-between, and age of possibilities. In The Breakfast Club, five high school students spend their Saturday together in detention, and they have to set aside their differences in order to make it through those long hours. The jock, the princess, the basket case, and the criminal reveal their internalizing problems involving their peers, parents or self. Their behaviors and personalities indicate the underlying issues of their cognitive and social development. The interaction between the students helps them find common ground with each other and learn the details of their life beneath the stereotypes. Throughout the movie, John Bender has an impulsive and aggressive personality that can be characterized by the environment that he was raised in, his
Released in 1985, The Breakfast Club depicts five high school students from Illinois as they spend a Saturday together in detention. Prior to their arrival, John Bender, Claire Standish, Andy Clark, Brian Johnson, and Allison Reynolds had not met, nor would they have associated with one another on a typical day in high school. After spending nine hours together, however, the group of vastly different adolescents break down emotional barriers, manage to build a sense of intimacy, and some establish dating relationships by the day’s end (Hughes et al., 1985). The film illustrated a rather realistic portrait of adolescence in several topical domains.
The movie The Breakfast Club takes viewers on a comedic tour of the ups and downs of adolescence. The Breakfast Club, directed by John Hughes, focuses on the events that unfold between five very different high school students during a Saturday detention. Even though the movie was shot in the 1980 's the characters portrayal is still relatable in a way to a lot of people today. Director John Hughes takes us on a comedic ride with what seems like another typical "teen movie" while still portraying a few life lessons along the way and exposing some truths behind stereotyping.
Andrew shows he is clever which makes him admirable. For example, he is clever is he’s sneaky because his dad and him are trying not to get noticed and they also stay among crowds and they sleep sitting up they do this because many people get kicked out of the airport . Another example that Andrew is a clever person is that he is careful he doesn’t make too much noise and he doesn’t break things and he doesn’t hang around
Andrew's development as a person involves being a free, he wants to be able to do whatever he wants without being told not to do so. Whenever Andrew is told not to do something, he questions the person