Group Dynamics In The Breakfast Club

Adolescence can be described as a period of awareness and self-definition. According to Erikson (1968), it is an important period in the enduring process of identity formation in the life of an individual. The movie ‘The Breakfast Club’, focuses on a group of five adolescents, and their pursuit to find their prospective identity. This essay will focus on the process of identity development in these five adolescents, with particular reference to the character Andrew Clark. In addition, it seeks to highlight the different identity statuses, as well as, the factors that facilitate or hinder identity formation. Furthermore, various psychological theories will be drawn upon relating to events in the movie that depict adolescent identity development.

Each character displayed in the breakfast club played a significant role in showing how individuals from varies backgrounds can relate to other another. John Bender is considered the criminal of the group. He is known as a bully and trouble maker with no regard for authority. Bender seems to be desperate for attention which could explain his behavior. His reputation as being tough and a jerk perceives him. Through is rough exterior he is dealing with major issues at home. Bender lives in a home with a father that abuses him and his mother both emotionally and physically. Due to this abuse he has become abusive towards others creating a dangerous cycle.

All teens are separated into categories and stereotypes, or so you think so. The breakfast club is fit for the Marxist lens because of how the movie represents socio-economics issues, class issues and wealth issues. The principal said to Bender that he should not mess with the principal, how Claire is considered “ rich”, and the stereotype class of each student.

The Breakfast Club is a movie about five high school students who have to serve detention one Saturday morning. When each student arrives, the viewer gets a brief glimpse into the characters backgrounds. At the beginning of the day you can clearly see the separation among the five students. Claire is considered the princess, Andrew is the athlete, Brian is the brain, Allison is the basket case, and John Bender is the criminal. The irony in it is that as these five students serve detention together they discover over the course of the day that they actually have many similarities. They all have different backgrounds and are involved in different social groups, but discover that they

The first example would be once again, the older generation. In the beginning of the movie, everything was fine. All the generations were getting along and had no problems. When David and Jennifer enter the world, everything changes. Before they entered the town, everything was normal and there was no such thing as discrimination in Pleasantville. When they joined the town however, everything started to change. It was mainly little things here and there, but as Jennifer started teaching the kids new things like what to do at lover’s lane, color started coming into the

Self concept plays a contributing role in a person’s characters and actions (verbal and nonverbal). I am a seventeen year old female who is Hmong, Chinese and Colombian and grew up in the suburb of Chaska, Minnesota. People who have shaped me are my family, friends and peers. The Breakfast Club is a film about five students who spend a day in detention and discover who they are to themselves and others. The character profile on each of them include their self perception, goals, values, strengths, weaknesses, verbal/nonverbal behavior, family, and self disclosures. The profiles identify who each character is; there are two characters in the film that closely resemble my own self-concept and awareness and one who seems to be opposite of myself.

The film The Breakfast Club follows five students who must serve a school detention on a Saturday due to a various wrongdoing. Due to this behaviour, they are sanctioned through the means of a weekend detention in hopes that they will never go against the school’s rules, values and norms again. The five students are noticeably different and each represents a certain subculture within the school. John Bender is one of the five students and is defined as the criminal of the group. Throughout the film, it is evident that John Bender strongly differs from the rest of the group and does not follow the social norms as well as from the rest of the students. Unlike the other students, he does not appear to take on the role of student very willingly

The Breakfast Club portrays elements of adolescent development very well. In this stage of our lives we are trying to figure out who we are. Some of us may explore different identities and there are others that just do what others tell them to do. The movie depicted role confusion in each of the characters. It also talked about peer pressure and how it influences how we act. An example in the movie, was when Brain had asked about what was going to happen on Monday and if they would still be friends. Claire responded by saying no, we won’t be friends. They would all go back to their friends. Andrew disagreed with her. She explained to Andrew what he would do if Brain came up to him in the hallways, Andrew would respond to Brian but as soon as Brian leaves. Andrew will start making fun of

INTRODUCTION QUOTE OR FACT. The Breakfast Club was a film produced in 1985 by John Hughes in Shermer, Illinois, that involved 5 different stereotypical teenagers in detention who were assigned an essay to tell his or her story. When the day ends, they all queried if they were all somehow the same. The experiences they had throughout the film made them question the stereotypes given to them. The purpose of The Breakfast Club is to inform teenagers and adults of the negative effects that stereotyping and parental pressure has on young adults. Through the use of a younger cast and romantic relationships, the target audience was definitely reached and moved by this film. By effectively using the rhetorical appeals, the audience was able to relate to some of the ideas shown and look at their community through an entire new lenses.

In one moment it’s ripped away from them: the only thing keeping them young; the only thing keeping them shielded from the world. It’s the mother watching her fatherless daughter cry over his coffin. It is the boy being slapped by his loving father for the first time. I That thing is known as “loss of innocence”, but is it really a loss? All one loses is their naivety and artlessness. In “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates, a boastful teenager lacks the knowledge of who a lady is. The knowledge Connie receives, brought upon by Arnold Friend, on that peculiar July afternoon must seem bittersweet.

  The breakfast club is a famous teen film directed by John Hughes. The Breakfast Club provides many concepts of adolescent struggles like identity issues, peer pressure, stereotypes, family relationships. The storyline follows five high school students from different social status meeting at their school’s library for Saturday detention. The film depicts Claire as the princess, Andrew as the jock, Brian as the brain, Allison as the basket case and Bender as the criminal. However, later in the film, they realize that they are more than what society portrays them and that they have more in common than they thought.

All of a sudden, I found myself thinking sociologically when I was watching the movie “Mean Girls,” because it reminded me of the cliques and peer groups that were in my old high school. The movie is about a teenage girl who ends up becoming a part of this clique full of mean girls and after an incident she sets out to try and ruin the leader of the clique’s life. It was the cliques and peer groups that made me start thinking sociologically, because it made me look back and see how much I have changed since I came to the University of Kentucky, and left my old clique or peer group behind.

In the microsystem, Brenda tells Doughboy that he pretty much will not amount to anything, so he goes down the path of jail, gangs, and eventually death. Brenda uplifts Ricky because she has faith that he will be great on day, so Ricky becomes a star football player, get a 710 on the SAT, but unfortunately was killed by the Bloods. Furious was strict on Tre about doing chores, being responsible, and smart, so Tre continued to do well in school and get accepted into Morehouse. In the mesosystem, Tre’s parents wanted him to stay out of trouble, but his neighborhood promoted the opposite. When Tre was little his teacher recommended that his family go to counseling because of lack of guidance, which offended Reva because she was working on her master’s degree. As a result, Reva took him out of that school and sent him to live with his father. In the exosystem, neighbors tend to mind their own business and only intervene to hear what happened. In the movie, one of the original gang of friends named Chris later was in a wheelchair because he had gotten shot. Further down the line Ricky and Doughboy got killed and everyone else went their own ways. In the macrosystem, Black people have to deal with police profiling. The black police officer in the movie said that it was bad that Furious did not kill the intruder because “it would be one less nigga out here in the

Hollywood has made many movies that involve teenagers and their lives in high school. In most of those movies, they portray high school differently than actual high school. One of those movies is Mean Girls. The movie is about a girl named Cady Heron who moves to a new city from Africa and attends a public school for the first time. She gets in trouble a lot at first because she does not know the rules and customs of an American school. She quickly becomes friends with social outcasts Janis and Damian who warn her to avoid the school’s most popular girls. The popular girls take in interest in her, so Janis asks her to pretend to be friends with the popular girls, so they could mess with them. She