The Breakfast Club: A Person's Life

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The film The Breakfast Club shows how a person’s life can be influenced by conflict he or she has experienced in life. First, Benders parents mistreat him they don’t care for him at all they call him worthless. For example when they are all talking and he says all his parents gave him for Christmas was a pack of cigarettes. Also Andrew Clark’s father influenced him by treating him bad. For example Andrew when is talking about why he got detention he talks about how his father makes him feel like he isn’t a man he says that this made him do the stuff he did to prove something to his father. Final Allison Reynolds talks about how she wants to leave home because her parents don’t love her for example when they are all around talking about why

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