Breakfast Club: A Person's Identity

The film the Breakfast Club demonstrates how a person’s identity can be influenced by conflict he or she has experienced in life. First, Brian is influenced by his parents and his grades. He was born having to have high expectations for grades so much that has programmed like a computer to think that he should never get a bad grade. His parents influence towards him to get all A’s is so stressful he wanted to kill himself. For example a part in the movie where another character (Claire) tries to say that Brian and Allison (the Outsiders) didn’t know pressure. Brian with anger interrupt Claire and curses her out for saying that. “I don’t understand what? You think I don’t understand pressure, Claire? Well fuck you! Fuck you!”. In that quote you can witness and kind of feel the anger and

exhaustion worked up in Brian that his parents put in him from their overwhelming influence. Second, John Bender is influenced by his abusive parents.

Benders parents most likely had a bad past time with their parents and that’s what probably makes them how they’re. Because of that negative, unhealthy influence on them they take it out on Bender. Them blaming him for that causes him to act up and be rude or obnoxious. He will soon meet the presence of the after effect of acting like that. In the movie he experiences this with the teacher Mr. Vernon. Vernon, in a scene of the movie gets tired of bender making him look like a fool so he puts him in the janitor closet and threatens him to hit him and that if he does that nobody would believe bender because of his reputation. Third, Andrew Clark is blindly controlled by his father. Andrew problem is that he can’t think for his self. His parents does not abuse him in no physical way but blindly abuse him with verbal motivation to do what his dad did and how his dad used to be in high school. When Andy goes to school he follows his dad and what he tells him. In the movie he tells all the characters in the circle what he did to get in weekend detention. Andy was put in weekend detention for bullying or assaulting a kid in gym

class. As Andy tells the circle made up of teenagers what he did to the kid, you can see the regret on his face and the thought of that he kid he bullied telling his father what happen to him made Andy reflect on his self. After telling the circle he said that he sometimes wishes hid knee would give out so his dad would never motivate him to be the same as his father. In conclusion these are my examples for the movie The Breakfast Club. The examples explain teenage identities and how now the adults should re think how to approach the cause.