The Breakfast Club

Movies are not only made to entertain us, but also to show us different human behaviors. We can learn many things from movies. The Breakfast Club is about a group of 5 teenagers who are stuck at Saturday Detention. They are all from different types of social groups, and are in detention for different reasons. The vice-principal assigns them a 1,000 word essay describing who they are. In the beginning they didn’t get along, but in the end they realize they had more in common than they thought.…

with the people around him. Similarly, the movie the Breakfast Club (1985), focuses on five high school students struggling to fit in and find their places in the variety of cliques. Of all of these students, John Bender is the one struggling to find his place in life and to fit in any of the norms that the society has set for him similarly to Holden, who is in search of his true self and his place in society. Both Bender from the Breakfast Club and Holden from the Catcher in the Rye are…

Simple Minds: A Deeper Look at Gender Roles For many, high school is either the best or worst time of their life. In John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club, he brings to life the reality and struggles of being a young man or woman. In the movie, gender roles (standards set by society for what is “normal” for a particular gender) are set by adults in a position of power. As teenagers from all over the country absorb these labels, it sets minors up for who they will become in the future; whether that…

The Breakfast Club, directed by John Hughes, displays that stereotypes do not define an individual because each person is far deeper than their outer shells show. He delves into the importance of external and internal identity by introducing five different characters, each embodying a specific high school stereotype. All five students are seen by others ‘in the simplest of terms’ and by the most convenient definitions. As the film progresses each character realizes that they are more complex…

In 1985 director John Hughes released the movie “The Breakfast Club.” The movie is about five very different high school students who become friends over a day spent in detention. The movie ends with the students leaving the school, returning to their ordinary lives. The first time I watched this movie, my parents asked me if I thought the characters would say hi to each other on the next day of school. I optimistically replied yes. I soon came to realize that more than likely, in reality, they…

movies had maybe an average of one a year, while the 90’s and 80’s had at most 2 a year. The 80’s sure was a time of excess. So, looking through all of these movies, trying to decide which one to watch, I came across John Hughes’ “The Breakfast Club”. “The Breakfast Club”: a widely popular ten drama/comedy about a group of estranged teenagers from different clicks meeting together for detention on a Saturday; yep, a Saturday. While this follows a sort of similar formal as most teenage movies of…

Until I got the opportunity to read the breakfast club script, I would’ve never had the thought or idea of reading any script for a movie. I feel that I can relate to this script in so many different ways, which makes it so entertaining to watch. “A brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal” (MLA) describes the five different characters in this movie. In all high schools, there are different people who hang around in different groups. These characters describe most student…

that Carl is defensive because he wishes he could be them and have the chance to change his path is very possible, it is also possible that he sees himself in Bender and that is the reason Bender is the only one left laughing. Adults from The Breakfast Club and Carrie struggle with the need to show power in order to subconsciously avoid the reality of ephebiphobia and to defend themselves and their choices. But what makes teens such a different…

an opportunity which they would have likely never been given if they had not been isolated from their social groups. Due to this, the students were given the liberty to reveal their personal stories and inner insecurities. Within the film, The Breakfast club the director John Hughes suggests that external and internal aspects of one’s identity is significantly tied to an individual’s life through the use of character motivation, circumstances, and revelations/realization. Allison Reynolds’…

in an analysis of the film The Breakfast Club analyzed through a Feminist Lens Thesis: The Breakfast Club portrays women’s individuality and men’s masculinity within society. Stereotypes are shown throughout the movies shapes the individual identity to fit society, and the gender role. John Bender: John bender is a ruthless character who has gone through a lot in his life time. He is represented as the criminal from the group of characters in, “The Breakfast Club”. He is a reckless characters…