Psychology In The Breakfast Club

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The breakfast club character’s are different their not normal people in detention. In detention their are five of them. Before they came into detention the five of them didn't know each other. Claire was the prom queen, John Bender was a criminal, Brain did something with a brain, Alison did something with a basket case, Andrew was an athlete, Vernon was the principal and lastly Reed was the man of the year/Janitor.This movie is very straight forward about drugs, different kind of people, how people act, and how feelings can change in the amount of time. The characters are nothing alike and they try to get along. Im going to talk about John Bender. John Bender came in and acted like he owned the place and really didn't care about anything,

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