In this essay the following things will be discussed, the casting, directing and the lead actors in referring to the Fault in our Stars by John Green, Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chomsky, The Breakfast Club (you could not ignore me if you tried) by Susannah Gora and the relationship between the books and the film adaptations. The categories for these books are known as young adult literature.
The fault in our Stars is a teen book also considered as young adult literature. It is about teenagers looking for a way in their life, they all dealing with a different sort of illness but they still go on with their teenage life. They still flirt, play video games and fight with their parents. The cast of the film goes well together with
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower is one of my favorite books. The cast of the film is a bunch of teenagers. We have Logan Lerman acting as the main character Charlie, Emma Watson as Sam, Ezra Miller as Patrick. The cast has a variety of different people which makes viewers interested for example an emotional boy and a strong girl or the cool kids with nerd. It shows what usually does not happen at schools. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is about growing up, it focuses on Charlie trying to find himself. The teenagers use alcohol and drugs to cope with their life stress. There is a lot of drama in the book, just like a teenagers ' lives and there is depression activity in the Perks of Being a Wallflower. They have included depression because of the characters; they are in high school and going through issues on their own. The film is made in such a way that if you were a teenager, we would love it because we were respected and the film validated our life challenges. The soundtracks were a mixture of youth songs and …show more content…
The Breakfast club is one of the most relatable film and books. The story shows us five different people with different squads come together at detention. The book and the film are based on stereotypes but they all end up being more than that. It fits in a teenager life because of how it is based and how everything is true. The cast consists of Judd Nelson as John Bender (the criminal), Molly Ringwald as Claire Standish (the princess), Emilio Estevez as "Andy" Clarke (the athlete), Anthony Michael Hall as Brian Ralph Johnson (the brain) and Ally Sheedy as Allison Reynolds (the basket case). The cast is done in a way to show different attitude and qualities between the teenagers by this, it has an effect on how society thinks about specific people and on their own lives. The soundtracks of the film give this the 80 's theme. It is a genre of rock or new wave that teenagers listen to which corresponded with the high-school life. The Film of the breakfast club made the book a lot more effect.
All three of the books are similar because of the genre. They all go together because of the situation that is being inserted into the books. All three of the files are similar by what teenagers do, how teenagers do and by going to school. They all get up to mischief to enjoy their lives. The stereotyping is the same, teenagers think another people do not have feelings but in these books or films it shows that we all have feelings that we all go through rough times and
The characters begin to genuinely listen to one another and make the most of the unpleasant situation they are put in. The students put aside their differences and end up becoming true friends. The movie achieved a great amount of lasting success because of the amazing and talented John
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, a Fascinating Book and Movie “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.” (2). The book, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, written by Stephen Chbosky, has a very bumpy storyline featuring a teenager named Charlie. Charlie starts out his freshman year with no friends, but he eventually he meets Sam and Patrick, two seniors at his school.
Overall, The Breakfast Club is a classic teen film by John Hughes that depicts the different perceptions of the five high school students who come from different sociological groups. The actors played the stereotypical characters well and it made it easier to understand the film. In conclusion, the breakfast club is one of my favorite movies because it explains accurately the various concepts such as stereotypes, peer pressure, family issues, and groupthink and those notions relate to the lives of many individuals during their teenage
Being a teenager can be difficult. Teenagers often experience new emotions that can become stress, anxiety, and even depression, if not understood correctly. The movie The Outsiders can be easily compared to the movie The Breakfast Club, because both pieces have a common theme of suicide. Johnny from The Outsiders hates his parents and struggles with life and the idea of suicide is constantly dancing around at the back of his head. In a similar way bryan from The Breakfast Club experiences suicidal thoughts, due to the pressure of his parents and the ability to keep up with life.
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.
A Glimpse Into the Developmental Roles of Adolescents 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.
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.
The film “The Breakfast Club” exemplifies group dynamic because at the start of the movie they don’t know each other and they think that the personalities are the same as the stereotype linked to their social group, but when they get to know each other the stereotypes go away and they realized that they are very similar. B y the end of the film everyone in the group figures out that they aren't that much different and they are all struggling with being misunderstood, so they realize that they were judging the other people in detention when they weren’t so different. In the movie The Breakfast Club John Bender is the criminal, Claire Standish is the princess, Andy Clarke is the athlete, Brian Johnson is the brain, Allison Reynolds is the basket case. Mr. Vernon gave everyone in the group a piece of paper and a pencil and told them to write a 1,000 word essay on who each one thinks they are. The group responded to the assignment by writing one essay explaining that it was stupid to write who each person thought they were because each person was a basket case, criminal, brain, athlete, and a princess.
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.
It does, however, address what makes each of the teenagers similar as well as distinguishes what makes them different, a theme that adults in today’s world tend to ignore. The reason that the movie is timeless is because, as a high school student, I can relate to it today as much as a student in the 80’s could. It does not attempt to break down barriers and stereotypes, it addresses the reasons why they exist and leave it to the viewer to find out how to take them down. The final scene of the movie with the epic “fist in the air” by John Bender and the dramatic Simple Minds song blaring in the background symbolizes the first actual triumph that the character has achieved; he got through to the minds that have been corrupted by societal
It was a fairly accurate depiction even of today’s adolescence and how difficult it is. This movie shows egocentrism, puberty/hormones, the effects of peers, and the struggles of school all in about an hour and forty five minutes. It’s no wonder it is a cult classic. By the end you can see where the hormones kick in with John and Claire.
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. The Breakfast Club can be classified as a coming to age film. According to “As Film Studies: The Essential Introduction”, the coming of age films tend to rely on dialogue and emotion and often involves an important decision made in a short period of time (271).
Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl is a movie that reflects the value of friendship during tough social situations. The movie portrays several inferences and levels of the made up friendship between the main characters Greg and “the dying girl” Rachel during her struggle with cancer and the friendship between the two senior students in the same high school Greg and Earl. Both of Greg and Earl craft short films during their senior year in high school, yet they refuse to publish them or give a copy to anyone up until the part in the movie in which Greg life changes because he develops a friendship with a girl with leukemia named Rachel and the other part where Earl publicizes the films he did with Greg to Rachel. In this film, Greg faces many difficult situations because he was forced to do things that
1. The Perks of being a Wallflower is a story about a high school freshman named Charlie. Through the entire novel Charlie is writing letters addressed to an anonymous friend. In these letters, he talks about his journey throughout his first year in high school. Where he experiences everything for the first time – first dates, family drama, drugs and new friends. In other words; growing up.
Gupta [1] Shrishti Gupta Ms.Kanika Dang English thesis paper 20th October, 2015 The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stefen Chbosky ‘The perks of being a wallflower’ is a popular book read mostly among teenagers, it revolves around the life of an introverted boy called Charlie. This book is a rollercoaster of human emotions and an excellent portrayal of “misfits” as they struggle to find their place in the turbulent high school world. The readers have greeted this premise with empathy and understanding. Charlie’s haunting letters, addressed only to “Dear Friend,” bring readers straight to the heart of his struggles to fit in, to find the will to “participate” in life, and to cope with the realities of the larger world as he learns how to grow up. ‘the perks of being a wallflower’ is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Stefen Chbosky and published in 1999.