Breakfast club reflective essay The plot follows five students at fictional Shermer High School in Shermer‚ Illinois as they report for Saturday detention on March 24‚ 1984. While not complete strangers‚ the five teenagers are each from a different clique or social group. The five students - Allison‚ Andrew‚ Bender‚ Brian‚ and Claire - who seem to have nothing in common at first‚ come together at the high school library‚ where they are harangued and ordered not to speak or move from their seats
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The Breakfast Club is very different from almost every other entry into what was (at the time) a burgeoning genre. Instead of relying on the staples of bare flesh‚ crass humor‚ and brainless plots‚ this movie focuses on five dissimilar characters‚ is almost entirely dialogue-driven‚ and doesn’t offer even a glimpse of a breast or buttock. It’s a story about communication gaps‚ teen isolation‚ and the angst that everyone (regardless of how self-assured they seem) experiences during the years that
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The movie that this book no doubt reminds me of is the Breakfast Club. In each there are five completely different characters who get paired up unknowingly. In the movie the characters meet in detention. In the book the characters are paired up during freshman orientation. Some of the characters even bear resemblance to characters in the movie. Whitney strongly reminds me of the pampered Claire‚ while Jake reminds me of the jock Andrew. Mia bears slight resemblance to the outcast Allison‚ and Gregor
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The 1985 film “The Breakfast Club” is a classic American coming-of-age-drama-comedy film. “The Breakfast Club” is written‚ produced‚ and directed by John Hughes‚ who was met with “resistance and skepticism” because he lacked filmmaking experience when he requested to direct this film. This film turned out to be Hughes’ directional debut. With a budget of one million dollars‚ this film grossed 51.5 million dollars worldwide. In just 97 minutes‚ we learn differences between “five strangers with nothing
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The well-known song “Don’t You Forget about Me” plays at the end of the movie The Breakfast Club‚ signaling not only the end of the famous movie‚ but also the end of the transitory group that had developed in the earlier scenes. Although movie was released over twenty years ago‚ high school students today can still use the labels that are examined in the movie to identify themselves in the cruel world they call high school. With the final lines “you see us as you want to see us...In the simplest
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1. According to Erikson According to the Erik Erikson‚ the "Breakfast Club"" adolescences are in the "Identity vs. Role Diffusion" Stage. During this period‚ teenagers seek to determine what is unique and distinctive about themselves. As they are in transition from childhood to adolescence‚ teens are trying to find themselves; "Who am I?" is the major question of the stage. Teens are trying to establish a sense of self‚ so they engage in a new type of behavior‚ roles or activities; they are very
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The Breakfast Club This paper is an analysis of five dissimilar teenagers representing a cross-section of middle class high school students in the suburbs. The students meet each other for the first time during a Saturday morning detention session. Each student arrived to the school by different means‚ which is a precursor to determining the type of individual each one is. The group is comprised of a "princess"‚ an "athlete”‚ a "brain"‚ a "criminal"‚ and a "basket case". These are the roles the
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In the movie The Breakfast Club‚ five students are to spend the entire day together in detention. These five teenagers all come from extremely different backgrounds and social groups within their school. As the movie progresses they learn more about one another. This bond comes about due to the students trying to have fun while in detention. In the beginning ten minutes of the movie one can see the setting of a team form. This means that it was clear that there would be a plan of action made by
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The Breakfast Club (Intercommunications) John Hughes’ 1985 film‚ The Breakfast Club‚ gives countless examples of the principles of interpersonal communication. Five high school students: Allison‚ a weirdo‚ Brian‚ a nerd‚ John‚ a criminal‚ Claire‚ a prom queen‚ and Andrew‚ a jock‚ are forced to spend the day in Saturday detention. By the end of the day‚ they find that they have more in common than they ever realized. I will begin by selecting a scene from the movie and using it to explain what
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The movie‚ “The Breakfast Club‚” by John Hughes takes place at a high school in Illinois‚ where 5 kids have to come in on a Saturday for detention. These kids are all teenagers going through different walks of life‚ under the responsibility of a “power-hungry” teacher. At the beginning of the movie‚ the kids start out practically hating all of each other. As the movie progresses‚ the kids begin to tell their stories‚ and you begin to know a little bit about each person. You begin to learn why the
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