... , and expands upon them in extreme measures, but measures that are abundant nonetheless. The characters I am going to be focusing on are Claire, Bender, and Brian. Claire is portrayed as the popular girl, or "princess". She is in detention in the movie because she skipped class to go shopping and hang ... beginning or end of the film. There is a scene in The Breakfast Club in which bender shows how his home life really is. He finishes taunting Brian's parents before he is told, "alright, what about your family". He then began to talk about how the only thing they do is belittle ... school...

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... The perfect parent would be parents that let you explore your own identity whether that be through you fashion taste or different job opportunities. Bender believes that Brian who is also known as "the brain" has the perfect home life. During lunch time everyone put their lunches on the table and Bender went around ... the brain, sat next to him and said "So what's for lunch." Bender thought Brain had the best home life just because he had a well balanced lunch. Brian had soup, apple juice, and PB&J with the crush cut off. Brain's home life looks like a WB television series on the outsi...

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... one of the students have discovered who they are and are no longer afraid to be who they are. They have also discovered a friendship. Brian writes the essay explaining to the assistant principal that it does not matter what they write in the essay about who they are because he has already ... act in a way he did not want to which essentially ended with him embarrassing his teammate and getting detention. Another example of pressure is shown when Brian expresses why he was in detention which was a result of him having a gun in his locker because he was contemplating committing suicide due...

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... or inaccurate. In most cases stereotyping can result in negative actions. For example, In "The Breakfast Club", the stereotypical loser, Johnny Bender, is treated inferior by the two popular characters. Brian, the nerd, is treated as though he does not exist. In a high school setting, the way that students view each other determines the way that they will interact. For instance ... , in the first scene of the movie, while the students are in the library, Claire and Andrew sit together. The punk Johnny, and the nerd Brian, sit alone. And Alison, the antisocial weirdo, sits away from the o...

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... Ferris Bueller, but the two films share some of the same themes. Mr. Vernon, the vice principal of Shermer High School, is assigned to monitor a Saturday morning detention attended by Brian, a "brain", Andrew, a "jock", Claire, a "princess", Allison, a "basket case", and Bender, a "criminal." Bender and Mr. Vernon argue throughout the film, and ... different as they once thought and reveal the true reason for their situation, their parents, which gives them something in common to bring them together. Brian's parents constantly pressure him to keep his grades up; Andrew's father pressures ...

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... he doesn't necessarily WANT to be. Rather than disappoint them, he simply becomes who they think he is. This creates a lot of internal anger, which surfaces often throughout the movie. Brian Johnson, Anthony Michael Hall, excels academically but has little self-confidence to show for it. He tends to be hard on himself, and can't handle failure. Straight-laced and timid ... ...

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