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The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club is a movie about five totally different students in high school who are forced to spend a Saturday in detention in their school library. The students come from completely different social classes which make it very difficult for any of them to get along. They learn more about each other and their problems that each of them have at home and at school. This movie plays their different personality types against each other. In this essay I will go into detail about each of the students and the principal individually. The first student I will talk about is the first one to be seen in the movie. This is Claire Standish. Claire is one of the popular girls in the school. Through her social learning she seems to feel that she is socially above everybody who is not in her group of friends, who I envision as being like the snobbish rich kids who went to my school. Claire comes from a nuclear family. Her parents are clearly the epitome of indulgent parenting. Her father pretty much tells her that it wasn’t that wrong of her to skip school to go shopping and that he will make it up to her. Throughout the movie, Claire seems to have an attitude that shows that she holds herself above the other kids who are serving detention with her. She even goes as far as to ask them “Do you know how popular I am? Everybody loves me so much!” She clearly shows that there are no types of risk taking in her life other than skipping school one time to go shopping. He has never had sex, she shows that she never has drunk alcohol or smoked, and she had never smoked pot. You could tell by her choking when she inhaled the smoke. She follows the leader in her little group she hangs out with at school and tries to constantly fit in. I can imagine that her parents support her in everything that she does and this fits her personality just fine because she strives so hard for people to like her. The second person that we see in the film is Brian Johnson. He is one of the very intelligent students in the school whom is virtually invisible. He has really good grades and he is excellent in everything that he does, but at the same time he is very hard on himself. At one point he talks about how he feels that he “doesn’t like what he sees” when he looks at himself. He was in woodshop and got an “F” on ... ... middle of paper ... ...hool and was picked on. Now he is making everybody pay for what the kids did when he was in school. He thinks of the students as “little punks”. As for the group being friends after this day in detention. I don’t think they will all ever become friends. They will all think that they are friends for a little while and then they will go back to their normal routines where they hang out with their same old friends and slowly forget each other. After all, just because they are friends doesn’t mean that their normal everyday friends will accept them. Their friends still see them “as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal.” I really did not learn that much from this movie, but I have always been able to relate to it. In high school, my sister was very popular, my brother was a wrestler, my youngest sister was on the swim team, and I kind of did my own thing. I grew up with friends from each of these groups and I can say that all of them had their ups and downs. This has always been one of my favorite movies. I own all of the movies that this producer has made. They are all corny 1980’s movies. I love em!

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