Ferris Buellers Day Off Essay

Adolescent’s Effect on Ferris Bueller The adolescent age is a period of development that is described as the transition period between childhood and adulthood, taking place between the ages of 10 to 18 or even later, but often times not going much further then that. Ferris Bueller, the titular main character of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, is a fun-loving and mischievous adolescent played expertly by Matthew Broderick, who wants to have one final big day off from his high-school career. While this feeling is one that almost every high-schooler has from time to time the way he goes about doing it and the things that he does while he’s off “sick” show definite signs of a troubled adolescence including conduct disorder, some major juvenile delinquency …show more content…
Plus, all of the lying in order to avoid an obligation which ties into another sign of conduct disorder which is his frequent truancy from school. He misses so much of it in fact he has to hack into the school’s computer system in order to change around the amount of days he has missed, so that he won’t get in trouble for it. On top of that he both verbally and physically abuses his friend Cameron on multiple occasions, forcing him to go along with his plan for a day off. Ferris also makes him put in a phony call to the principal in order to get his girlfriend out of class, slaps him when he doesn’t cooperate, and makes him steal his own father’s car for the day trip into the city, which is where some of the major juvenile delinquency begins. While juvenile delinquency is a term often times used to describe a simple unruly teen or two, the reality of it all is that juvenile delinquency refers to an adolescent who regularly breaks the law and often times ends up being in regular harmful relationships and leaving school behind. If unchecked juvenile delinquency tends to produce an adult that commonly …show more content…
He not only breaks the obvious truancy laws, but since he is a senior who is presumed to be 18-years-old and he gets his girlfriend Sloane, who is confirmed to being younger than him by at least a year, out of class just to run around with him, he is guilty of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and could even be charged with kidnapping. On top of that you have the some more major federal law breaking such as tampering with public record when he illegally changes the amount of days he has missed and grand theft auto from stealing Cameron’s father’s car, along with conspiracy to commit odometer tampering when he is telling Cameron about messing with the millage tracker so his father never finds out. Then there is also the fact of the parade float that he jumps on to preform his rendition of Twist and Shout which would get him at least a disorderly conduct charge. Overall Ferris Bueller is a very troubled adolescent who seems to have no regard for the law when it comes to him having fun. Though his complete disregard for both the law and for other people may point to something a bit more