In the movie “The Breakfast Club”, five high school students from different social groups, spend Saturday, March 24, 1984 in detention for the day. Each student has a back story to their reasoning for being in detention. The character that I can most relate to would be Brian Johnson, he is the typical high school academic nerd with red hair and braces. Brian and most teens today, deal with pressure, such as getting good grades. I can relate to being pressured, as it is very competitive to advance to post secondary schools and maintaining a part-time job at the same time. The film also portrays Brian being an outsider. Brian is often shocked by other students behaviours and experiences. This relates to me mostly because I always feel not good …show more content…
enough for my friends and I tend to feel left out. Brian deals with teenage pressure , feeling like an outsider and shows a lack of confidence, as for myself, I can also relate to these experiences and reasons. The Breakfast Club highlights a variety of pressures placed upon teenagers throughout high school.
Brian Johnson portrayed as “the brain” puts extra pressure on himself and in addition to the pressure his parents put on him to achieve good grades. Essentially, he tries to hurt himself with a flare gun because he got his first “F”, which is why he's stuck in detention. My parents are constantly pressuring me to get good grades and maintain a part time job at the same time. Moreover, now as a grade twelve student, awaiting university acceptances has been one of my Grutta 2 biggest pressures. Brian is genuinely a very nice and friendly student, much like myself and that’s how we both want others to think of us. School is a huge part of why teens experience pressure, much like Brian and I. Being under pressure can be frustrating, our parents and society expect so much from us, however, essentially we put the greatest pressure on ourselves. The increased worries about keeping good grades has to be one of the biggest pressure that Brian Johnson and I have in …show more content…
common. Being an outsider refers to always being on the outside of situations.
In this film, John Bender (the criminal), gets weed from his locker and Brian is shocked, I feel Brain is shocked because he's has never been exposed or allowed himself to explore “bad” behaviour. I can relate to Brian in this case because when others speak about parties with drinking and drugs it makes me feel much like an outsider. We usually are left out when our friends make plans as they feel we don't want to hang out with them in these situations ,which makes us outsider. We never really know what’s going on, because we aren't popular like the others. We tend to lose friends because of this and it is usually hard for us to make new friends. Especially with being in the final year of high school, popularity is most important to everyone and I always felt like I didn't fit in. Many kids do drugs and party much like John Bender and kids like Brian and I , John would often look down upon. The reason Brian and I have such a hard time in social situations and making friends is because we are afraid of what others have to say about us. Often, I feel like we see ourselves like an outsider when we essentially
aren’t. Grutta 3 As the film progresses, we come to learn that Brian portrays a lack of confidence and self-esteem. As for myself, I tend to put myself down, like I'm not good enough for my friends and family. Due to the lack of self-esteem we have a hard time adjusting to new things, meeting new people and feeling awkward in social settings. I can relate to Brian in the scene when he agrees to do Andrew’s school work for him, as he gets taken advantage of as I do in many cases. He gets taken advantage of because he's too nice and thinks that people will actually invite him to a social gathering and might try to be his friend. We often feel awkward in social situations because we don't get to experience them enough. Low self- esteem is a side effect of new challenges which Brain deals with everyday, between getting his grades up, his parents expecting so much and not having friends for this matter. As a student having a lack of self confidence and a low self esteem has an impact on everything I do, the way I deal with challenges and interacting with others are the matter of the fact. Having said this, we often feel not good enough and we have no potential for everything we encounter and face. Although, this film may take place in the 80’s, teens today seem to be dealing with increasing pressure, having feeling of not fitting in and lack of self confidence due to social media. Brian’s main pressure was his grades, however, I feel that social media puts pressure on me not just to keep up with the trends but also with academics. Brian only knew of situations he missed out on if he happened to overhear stories from others. Today we are instantly aware of what’s going on. While I am doing my homework, others are having a good time, which makes me feel like more of an outsider. Brian and myself, let all of the above contribute to our low self Grutta 4 esteem, thus we are one in the same. Overtime, I can learn from Brian Johnson and better myself for the future.
The 1985 film, The Breakfast Club, directed by John Hughes shows how a person’s identity can be influenced by conflict he or she has experienced in life. First, John Bender is in the library telling everyone how he got a cigar burn on his arm from his dad. For example, his mother and father don’t treat with the most respect or any respect at all. They call him names and say he can’t do anything right. One day him and his dad got into a really bad argument and his dad burnt him with is cigar that he had. Because his parents treat him that way, he treats everyone he’s around very badly.
In the iconic film, The Breakfast Club, five random high school students must spend their Saturday together in detention. Each teen is in detention for a different reason. The Jock (Andrew), the Princess (Claire), the Brain (Brian), the Basket Case (Allison), and the Criminal (Bender) must put aside their differences to survive their grueling eight-hour detention with their psychotic and rash principal Mr. Vernon. While in detention, they are expected to write about “who they really are” in one thousand words. Throughout the day, their actions reveal their innermost struggle involving their cliques and their home lives. As the movie progresses, we find out the reason each teen is in detention that culminates in a climactic discussion about
The “push to be perfect” (Thomas) is at an all-time high. Pressure for perfection from peers, parents, teachers and coaches is so unreasonably high that many students don’t think that they will ever be able to achieve it. A student feels that it is impossible to get good grades, be athletic, in multiple organizations, and most of all appear to be happy. Students have turned to cheating, drug/ alcohol abuse, and even suicide to try and cope. They are competing with friends for top spots, and believe that if they don’t beat them, they are a failure. Not only other students, but parents play a big roll, too. Their own parents and the parents of their peers will compare kids. New Trier High School’s Jim Conroy said that the biggest problem about pressure comes from the parents who compare (Robbins). With all...
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Peer pressure can be to do something that is legal but against one 's morals, and some peer pressure can be for a person to do something illegal. In The Breakfast Club, the viewer sees that stereotypes can create peer pressure. For example, as the "brain", Brian experiences pressure from both friends and family to maintain a very high GPA. This isn 't necessarily bad peer pressure until Brian gets a failing grade on a workshop assignment. This peer pressure and the expectation of living up to his given stereotype leads him to contemplate suicide. Like the other detention students, the viewer realizes there is a person behind the "brain" who has feelings such as fear and disappointment. The film also presents another type of peer pressure that occurs in every high school, the treatment of other students who are not in your social group. For instance, Claire admits that when Monday arrives, there is a good chance she will not speak to any of the kids in the Saturday detention because of what her friends might think. She admits she "hates having to go along with everything" her friends want. She further explains, "you don 't understand the pressure that they can put on you!" This type of peer pressure isn 't directly spoken, but it is caused by fear of judgment from her own social class. Another example of peer pressure is show in the library when Bender goes to the back of the library to
In the film The Breakfast Club, five students attending Shermer High School are placed in Saturday detention by Vice Principal Vernon. Gradually, the teenagers learn that they are more similar than previously thought. The students have different backgrounds, creating the labels and stereotypes assumed of them.
The 1985 film The Breakfast Club examines the cases of five individuals during their experiences in a Saturday morning high school detention session; each is bound by unique characteristics and circumstances, yet their shared experience allows them to form a group— an assortment of people who interact with one another and who feel as if they have reason to belong together— and socialize, or gain knowledge of group traits as well as the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, norms, and actions thought appropriate for each member. Notwithstanding the fact that each of these young scholars possesses wildly different attributes, they are all able to overlook such factors in favor of attainment of personal progress as well as propagation and fortification
The Breakfast Club is a movie made in nineteen eighty-five, directed by John Hughes. The plot follows five students at Shermer High School, as they attend for Saturday detention on March 24 on nineteen eighty-four. The students are not complete strangers to each other, but the five of them are from completely different cliques or social groups. John Bender “The Criminal” is one of the worst behaved kids in school, does drugs and is always involved in some kind of trouble, Claire Standish “The Princess” is one of the most popular girls in school, all the guys want to date her. Brian Johnson “The Brain” is the typical nerd, he is really smart in school, but has no idea about relationships, parties or drugs. Andy Clark “The Athlete” is a really popular kid in Shermer High, he is the varsity letterman, captain of wrestling team and a ladies man. Finally the last student in the detention is Allison Reynolds “The basket Case” she barely talks to anyone in the school and act really weird when approached.
The movie The Breakfast Club is a perfect example of peer relationships in the adolescent society. It shows the viewer some of the main stereotypes of students in high school you have a jock, a nerd, the weirdo, a rebel, and a prep. Over the course of a Saturday detention the different types of peers learn a lot about one another by hearing what each one has done to get into Saturday detention as well as why they chose to do it.
The Breakfast Club is a coming of age classic directed by John Hughes in 1985. It showcases five students that find themselves in all day Saturday detention for various unrelated incidents. John Bender, Andrew Clark, Allison Reynolds, Brian Johnson, and Claire Standish come from extremely different lifestyles even though they attend the same high school. Their parents drop them off at the school and the characters can be immediately judged by their cars and clothing. The jock, the basketcase, the nerd, and the princess are apprehensive at first, but after smoking the criminal’s weed they come out of their shells and learn about each other. They find that detention was not an entire waste of a Saturday, but turns into the day they find themselves.
The 1985 film, The Breakfast Club, takes place during a Saturday detention in a Chicago high school. Five students, all from very different backgrounds, must serve this detention together for a nine-hour period. Everyone is at the detention for diverse reasons but throughout the course of the day, they soon discover they are not as different as they thought they were. The Breakfast Club analyzes how social interactions between students and their social contexts lead to the prevalence of discrimination and prejudice within the high school environment. Demonstrating how it is contrary to other films of the era, The Breakfast Club particularly examines these social issues through the establishment of cliques which were founded based on the hierarchy
Despite an inappropriate music-video sequence and a phony up-tempo finale, The Breakfast Club offers a breakthrough portrait of the pain and misunderstanding which result from the social hierarchy created by youth themselves. The lookers and the jocks are popular and can do whatever they want — except relate to those outside their social circle of winners.
The breakfast club is an American comedy and drama film which was written and produced by John Hughes. It talks of an experience gone through by five students in a library at New Trier High School; the school went to by the child of one of John Hughes' companions (Kaye, 2001). In this way, the individuals who were sent to detainment before school beginning time were assigned individuals from "The Breakfast Club".
I mean the pressure kicks in as soon as you reach the age of 13. You 're trying to get into that big fancy private school with a castle as the cafeteria. But guess what? You’re one of those lucky kids who needs a full scholarship to attend this school and if you don’t get that scholarship... guess what? You’re not going. So I guess you start carrying things when you’re in like elementary school. You have to make sure you get a pretty good grade on all of your tests because every single point out of that 100 counts. And don’t forget the bonus points too! And then there’s the MCAS and the ISEE and you have to score high on those exams or else you won’t get into that school you like or maybe it’s your parents that like it but it doesn’t matter. But yes, the pressure is quite overwhelming. I can still remember that moment when your exam score comes in the mail. It’s been a few weeks since you have taken the test and you know the mail is coming any day now. You’re at school and you can’t think about anything else but this. Your parents probably aren’t going to listen to you and will open the mail before you come home from
The academic pressure is one of the major stress factors in my life. The academic environment is very competitive and everyone wants to be the best. Not only are am I competing with my peers, I am also competing with myself. I always want to exceed my expectations. Which can cause me to become anxious at times. The academic pressure has many sublevels to it. Making excellent grades, homework, projects, essays, online work, class scheduling, exams, and many other aspects that are involved with school.