In the film The Breakfast Club Bender is seen as the delinquent kid who doesn’t care about anyone. However, he sacrifices himself for the rest of the group when they are almost caught on their way back to the library by running through the halls yelling for Mr. Vernon. Archer, a character in the novel Damned is also portrayed as a criminal with a tall spiked mohawk, a leather jacket, and a safety pin in his cheek. He too makes a sacrifice for the rest of the group when he rescues Maddy from Psezpolnica and instead gets eaten himself. Through these actions it is shown that both characters do care about the people around them. Both Bender and Archer had tough home lives that impacted how they acted. Bender came from a broken home with an abusive
