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I choose to watch the breakfast club movie and relate it back to the stereotypes that are displayed throughout the movie. I am going to focus on several different things that I saw throughout the movie such as stereotypes, deviance, socialization, and family. A stereotype is a label that is applied to a social group of people or an individual that represent a certain group or name. Deviance is not following normal standards that are socially accepted in society. The film also demonstrated different

but contemporary society finds itself in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Young adult males live without purpose or meaning and struggle against a conditioned, preexisting identity defined by history. As Tyler Durden restrains the narrator in Fight Club and reflects on the history of violence in the foundations of contemporary America, he argues the necessity of violence to create identity, “everything up to now is a story, and everything after now is a story” (Palahniuk p.75). The

behaviors, feelings, and lives. The psychological novel, Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, uses a man’s need for a male role of identity to fit in into society as a way of showing how consumerism can be threatening a man’s identity and masculinity. Palahniuk explores the life of a man who in an attempt to break free of a capitalist society forms a clandestine “fight club” as a form of rebellion towards society. Palahniuk illustrates in, Fight Club, a character that, challenged by today’s consumerism culture

Fight Club and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and id, the double, fanaticism Introduction: The goal of this dissertation is to compare and contrast the two different representations of masculinity in both texts with social and historical context in mind, using secondary sources to supplement arguments when necessary. James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club both provide intriguing representations of masculinity. Fight Club tells the

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

Have you ever been judged by your looks or how you act? Has anyone ever put you in a specific category ? In The breakfast Club a group of high school students get an 8 hour detention where they learn more about each other and find their inner Self. The breakfast club was created after a group of kids got a Saturday detention in a cafeteria. Each character has their own stereotype, Allison is the weird one that doesn't care what anyone thinks, John is the big bully or the jock, he seems like he's

The Breakfast Club vs. The Perks of Being a Wallflower In high school, social hierarchy is typically determined by perceived popularity. Adolescents experience many emotional, biological and cognitive changes during this time. Teenagers struggle with their identity as social acceptance becomes an increasingly important factor in their lives. Cliques are formed in high school as a representation of a small group of people with common interests. Cliques are joined mostly by girls because it gives

The Breakfast Club: Review Isn’t it amazing how people in different social groups can come together and find similar interests? The Breakfast Club is a classic film which intertwines a bunch of different personalities into a close friendship. This lively group is transformed into a society when they all realize that their dilemma is the saturday detention. The characters all began in the ‘out group’ and moved closer when they start sharing secrets and family issues with each other. In reality, this

Fight Club - Conformity vs Rebellion The conflict between conformity and rebellion has always been a struggle in our society. Fight Club is a movie that depicts just that. The movie portrays the polarity between traditionalism and an anti-social revolt. It is the story of man who is subconsciously fed up with the materialism and monotony of everyday life and thereafter creates a new persona inside his mind to contrast and counteract his repetitive lifestyle.      The main character is actually

Robespierre and his siblings were raised by his relatives for most of their lives. He won a scholarship to Louis-le-Grand at age eleven and went on to study law, much like the rest of his family members. Robespierre was very beneficial when it came to social, legal, and political attributes. Although