Ferris Bueller's Day Up Analysis

The teenage years are often times of rebellion due to physical and emotional changes, adolescence feeling demented and overwhelmed, out of control forming rebellion in their lives. They rebel against both authority and convention, this is visible in Abdel-Fattah’s novel “Does My Head Look Big in This?” and in Hughes film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”. Both texts displaying a time of turmoil in adolescence, the rules they face and the characters’ struggles in dealing with them. We as an audience tolerating the acts of rebellion, authority in these texts do not; in fact, they act as a barrier for them. ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ a story about a teenager ‘Ferris Bueller’ who uses his uncanny skill at cutting classes to make a last day out before graduation. Ferris calls in sick,

Rooney) and outwits him, he also continues to plan ahead to avoid all possible ways of him being caught. Mr. Rooney is shown as a man believing to know all of Ferris’s rebellion, therefore, he embraces to a journey to prove everyone that Ferris is lying, however, he is later forced to return without any proof of Ferris’s rebellion. Cameron is shown as Ferris’s best friend, a rich kid who lives under his father's commands, Cameron does everything for Ferris only because he’s the only friend he has, he takes his dad's car and even make a phony phone call to Mr. Rooney. Cameron portrays himself as a man under Ferri’s command and always having to listen to his father, being worried about the consequences of his rebellion and not living life to its full extent. “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it”, this is why Ferris takes Cameron out for a day to make him realise the wonders of life he is missing out on. Cameron assumes himself to be truly sick, until the day ends and Cameron finally loses it, he ends up purposely denting his dad’s Ferrari and accidently crashing it through the glass wall for it to end