The Breakfast Club
A high school criminal is a stereotype that never has friend and always annoys the others because of their mutinous acts. In fact, a high school cannot be a high school if it is lacked of the presence of this stereotype. In this essay, I want to talk about John Bender – the criminal, the one I think to have the most complicated nature and to be the most honest person in the club. The question I often wonder is that whether John Bender comes off as an asshole, or a necessity for personal growth. His personality reflects the one of the aspect in the diversity of human behaviors of Anthropology. If someone does not question something, it does not get re-examined. John Bender is probably the most honest, blunt and without him
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His personality also reflects the relationship between him and his father. In ninety-seven minutes of the movie, John Bender’s nature is described with every aspect before putting forward a conclusion of the movie. John Bender is cocky, arrogant, confident, and overall very rude and pushy; on other hand, he is also the most honest, loyal and brave person in the Breakfast Club. John Bender is the character which has most complicated personalities in the movie. His personalities also reflected some interesting the human behaviors which related to some Anthropology concepts which covered throughout the lectures. John Bender is not able to completely overcome his stereotype – a criminal because John Bender is a type that likes to insult people by telling the truth about them and sometimes it is hard for people to face with it and this is the reason why John almost miss all the opportunities that would help him change the other’s perception. According to Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory, “Freud believed that personality developed through a series of childhood stages in which the pleasure-seeking energies of the id become focused on certain erogenous areas” (Cherry, 2016), the childhood experience is really affecting John …show more content…
He is the stereotype of bad boy: long hair, leather boots, biting sarcasm, and a serious attitude problem. Different from other students in the breakfast club, he walks to school by himself when others come to school with their parents by cars. He does not even care when he crosses the street and the car almost hits him. He is the person that quietly looks at other students and their parents react when they arrive to the Saturday school. John is the one who initiates most conversations. He tries to break the silence in the class. Everything seems very comfortable with John because it would be usual for him to be there in the Saturday detention. By making himself become annoying, he also becomes a target of the “Breakfast Club”. For example, when John first comes to the class, he kicks Brian off his chair, and then he uses ignominious words to insult Claire. He takes the hinge off the door to make it is unable to open and it makes him get the trouble with the vice-principal. He takes control of the situation from the very beginning. If it is not for the fact that John is somewhat aware of his own identity, the five students may have never even spoken to each other. John Bender questions his other peers about things that make them a bit uncomfortable to question their own identity. He also provides the catalyst for the group’s path toward solidarity and
" With violence affecting so many lives, one can understand the desire driven by fear to lock away young male offenders. But considering their impoverished, danger-filled lives, I wonder whether the threat of being locked up for decades can really deter them from crime" (305). Hopkins is definitely not our stereotypical prisoner. Most generally, our view of prisoners is not that of someone who has this profound use of wording and this broad sense of knowledge.
Before I signed up to take the Principles of Sociology class, I had no idea I would have to change the way I view the world. In order to make sense of a case like Hernando Washington, it is essential to view the world with what Max Weber describes as verstehen. In other words, you need to stay objective and not allow your own values affect how you perceive a situation. Instead, I have learned how to look at the world with a sociological imagination, which is exactly how Lisa J. McIntyre looked at Hernando’s case. Instead of studying Hernando Washington as an individual, Lisa studied his surroundings, culture, and interactions in order to get a better understanding of why Hernando could commit a crime
As I was completing this assignment, I was watching the infamous Netflix documentary entitled Making a Murderer. The documentary follows the story of Steven Avery, who is currently in prison for the death of a woman, Teresa Halbach, in 2005. Steven Avery has been denying any involvement in the murder of Teresa Halbach for the past eleven years. In the middle of the reading, the documentary was exploring and analyzing Steven Avery’s deviant behavior as a young man (Making). As I observed what was being discussed about Steven Avery, I was able to build the connection between how society, and the community from which he came from, perceived Steven Avery and what Kai Erikson discussed in the first couple pages of the book with regards to deviance and its relation with regards to society.
Jacoby can be easily perceived as an upset and alarmed individual who blames the rise of criminal activity in the United States on the failure of the criminal justice system. He cares about people and believes that the safety of individuals is decreasing because criminals are not punished effectively by imprisonment and that some even receive a “sign of manhood” from going to prison (197). Additionally, he is upset that the ineffective system is so expensive. His concern for his audience’s safety and his carefully argued grounds, which he uses to support his claim, create a persona of an intelligent person of
Allison obviously lacked the respect of others, for she had no friends whatsoever prior to her time spent in this detention. She also has nervous ticks, such chewing her nails, and played with her hair. Brian was another case of insecurity. The influence of self-concept was strong with Brian Johnson for he had no sense of self. He could not meet the standards of his desired self and was therefore unhappy with himself as a person.
During the course of our class we have encountered plenty of important topics and vital information that is essential to the field of the Criminal Justice system. Such as; Crime and justice including laws, Victimization and Criminal behavior, Laws, Police officers and Law enforcement and the criminal justice system in itself. These topics are daily situations yet individuals are oblivious to what's going on and that in it can be a major problem to the community. On that note this paper will express the ignorance and selfish values of twelve individuals by fully explaining the movie "Twelve Angry Men"
Adler, Patricia A., and Adler Peter. Constructions of Deviance: Social Power, Context, and Interaction. 6th ed. Belmont: Thomas/Wadsworth, 2009.
... show that criminality and “evil” are not that different, as we tend to define them, but normal human responses that merely become amplified and find a destructive outlet.
The Breakfast Club is about 5 high school students enduring detention on a Saturday. You first see the in groups and outgroups. An in group are people who belong to the same group as you, while the out group are people who belong to a different group as you. This was shown right off the bat in
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.
Menace II Society, a film about a young Black man who has lived the “hustler” lifestyle and is struggling to leave it, is a perfect example of deviance as the main character, Caine Lawson, and the characters around him violate many of society’s norms. Throughout the film, the characters swear incessantly, carry around guns and drugs as most people would carry around cell phones, commit street crimes, especially burglary and mugging, on a regular basis, and beat and kill people unscrupulously. The following quote captures just how deviant Caine and the other characters in this film were, “[Caine] went into the store just to get a beer. Came out an accessory to murder and armed robbery. It's funny like that in the hood sometimes. You never knew what was gonna happen, or when” (Albert Hughes). Why would Caine consider these crimes “funny”, or rather, so insignificant? What caused Caine to become so deviant? The answers to such questions were woven into the plot of the film and will be discussed in the following paragraphs.
"Sociological Theories To Explain Deviance." Sociological Theories To Explain Deviance. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Dec. 2013. .
...d to be a jock and rough person who is really competitive as a wrestler. However he is actually pressured to be aggressive and competitive by his father, which he does not accept or like. Brian is perceived to be a genius, confident and nerdy person. However he is in fact pressured by his parents to exceed in school and do more than what he is capable of doing. As such, he breaks down when he gets bad grades which is a disappointment to his parents. Lastly, John is perceived to be a cold, “badass”, gangster type of person who harasses people with regret or remorse. However he behaves this way because his parents are abusive to him and treat him disgustingly. To cope with this, John behaves coldly. In The Breakfast Club various social psychological theories and concepts are demonstrated by the characters through the way they reveal their behaviors and inner selves.
Delatore, J.E. “Character and Cops.” American Enterprise Institute of Public Policy Research. 1989: 65. EBSCOhost. Web. 12 Nov 2013
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