Five Students Report For All-Day Detention Essay

Five students report at 7:00am. for all-day detention, and at the end they must complete essa. Each of the students come from a different group , and they dont have nothing in common: beautiful and rish Claire Standish, the state champion wrestler Andrew Clarke, the bookworm Brian Johnson, the outcast Allison Reynolds, and the delinquent John Bender. The students pass the hours by talking, arguing, and, at one point,,they open up to each other and reveal their deepest secrets. We find out that Alison is a compulsive liar, Andrew think for himself, John comes from an abusive household, Brian was planning to kill himself with a flare gun due to a bad grade, and Claire is a virgin who feels constant pressure from her friends. They also discover that they all have strained relationships with their parents. Despite social status, the group begins to form friendships. As the detention comes to its final moments, the students part ways outside the school. Allison and Andrew kiss, as do Claire and John. Allison rips Andrew's state champion patch from his letterman jacket to keep, and Claire gives John one of her diamond earrings. Brian states in the essay that Vernon has already judged who …show more content…
In reality, Brian isn’t happy and feels pressured to do well in school in order to make his parents happy or proud of him. School is always a main priority and that is what his parents always pushes on him with the importance of education. He must pay respect to them as authorities, be obedient and do as they say to be a good student as well as a good son. At a moment where everything is backfired, his ego shattered as he knew he was going to be a disappointment to his parents: "I can't have an F, I can't have it and I know my parents can't have it. Even if I aced the rest of the semester, I'm still only a B. And everything's ruined for me" (The