The Breakfast Club

psychosocial stages, each associated with a conflict or crisis that one must contend with and resolve successfully to move forward in development. Erickson’s psychosocial stage 5, “Identity vs Role Confusion,” is exceedingly represented in the movie “The Breakfast Club.” Erickson…

used for kids and adolescents to find out who they are. Furthermore, adolescents used crowds to find out who are the ones that are more likely to become their friends or with whom they could establish a romantic relationship. In the movie The Breakfast Club, we observe five different crowds such as, the athletic oriented (Sporto), the academically oriented (Brains), the Deviant (Burnouts), the popular (Princess), and the loners (Basket Case). These crowds reflect adolescents’ own organization of…

Whether it was watching mean girls or the Breakfast club. Whether you read it somewhere in a book, you have probably heard the term stereotype. You know the geek, jock, cool girl the list goes on. We see stereotypes everywhere. Whether or not we choose to believe it, we are all actually part of our own stereotypical clique. A clique that separates us as teenagers in work, school and even at home. John Hughes the god of teenage films such as the Breakfast Club, constantly portrayed the original…

Thus, adding to our algebraic impressions for a more complete perception. Additionally, it allows us to correct errors in the bias stereotyping interpersonal communications we generally have with others. A good example of this is the movie The Breakfast Club, in which five people take a journey though interpersonal communication beginning with their formed perceptions of each other being challenged by checking those perceptions, and finally correcting errors to improve their perceptions of each…

novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, as well as containing various intertextual references from a series of 80’s films. Examples of these intertextual references include allusion to Say Anything, Pretty Woman, Can’t Buy Me Love, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Scarlet Letter. The techniques used in these range of films, enhance the audience’s understanding regarding…

This goal was applied with the nursing intervention of including Mike in the daily breakfast club. Findley (2013) states that there are many health benefits of a breakfast club. It promotes independence as well as engaging the patients socially (para. 6). The breakfast club enabled Mike to independently prepare meals and facilitate the functional use of his affected limb. Because Mike used to thoroughly enjoy preparing meals…

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…

The Breakfast Club which was written, directed and produced by John Hughes was written for teenagers and allowed other generations to observe popular culture through the eyes of a teenager. The film illustrates teenage culture in the 1980’s and the social struggles tied to being a teenager. To understand the shift in American culture within the 1980’s and how movies began depicting popular culture, the film does an excellent job of illustrating. Popular culture, low culture, elite culture,…

Teen and youth based films that were produced in the eighties changed how movies in the future would be scripted, produced and how the viewers would see them. One movie in particular that did this was The Breakfast Club, which was written and directed by John Hughes. The movie shows a group of five highschoolers both boys and girls all coming from different backgrounds yet they are all in the same place, detention. Throughout the day the film shows its viewers how they come together and…

Let's get one thing straight. We are not the Breakfast Club. We did not meet by chance, and we did not leave whether or not we would always be friends a mystery to those who were watching us. As far as I know, we will always be friends, and if we are not, I’ll always try to remember what made us, us. But in terms of the Breakfast Club, I believe we have helped each other quite a bit, and we all are extremely different. It was right before the summer, so the day was warm but also wet and…