Stereotypes In The Breakfast Club

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breakfast club essay Five high school students get in detention on a Saturday and all of them are different and don't know anything about each other in the beginning. At the start of the movie they all see each other as different stereotypes and think they have nothing in common. There was one popular girl, emotional (shy) girl, Surrey jack (rebel), wrestler (jock), and the nerd. In the beginning of the movie none of them liked each other or knew anything about one another, but the “Surrey jack” (John Bender) he liked the popular girl known as the princess at there school (Claire Standish). John Bender is a rebel, kinda known as a Surrey Jack but not a lot. John is a guy who couldn’t care less about school and no one really knows him. At Sullivan …show more content…

The other characters see Claire as a very stuck up and rude person, she’s very immature but try’s to act older and “cool”. We also have a popular group at our school that hangs out together a lot at Sullivan, and they always have to go everywhere together at lunch. To be in these two groups you have to have name brand clothes and to be a surrey jack you have to act cool by smoking or …show more content…

When everybody was told to write a 1000 word assignment he was willing to write the whole thing, but because nobody else was writing it he didn’t write it either. I can’t say I have seen “nerds” at school because nobody in any of my classes or around the school seems like they they are, there is just some people who are really smart but not known as “nerds”. At the end of the movie all of the students were supposed to write a essay but instead Brian wrote one essay for everybody saying which stereotype each person was. He explains, everybody is not what they seem like in the movie. During the movie everybody learned they all felt the same way, about nobody's parents paying attention to them. In the beginning of the movie none of them had anything in common, but once they all started talking they found out they all feel the same way. If i had to put myself in one of these stereotypes I would have to say the popular group because i wouldn’t fit into any of the other

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