The Breakfast Club is a very well known movie that contains a variety of characters that resemble many different characteristics and traits. One character that has an assortment of attributes is Claire Standish. She is a protagonist in this story. She known as the stereotypical princess and rst glance she looks like a spoilt rich girl with not a worry in her life. However, once we get to know her better in the movie, we realise that she has problems too. She is faced with peer pressure and she feels like cannot stand up too her friends in fear of being isolated. Some attributes of Claire is that she is pampered, condescending, and pressured. Firstly, Claire is pampered. At the beginning of the movie, she is dropped off in a BMW (a very expensive car) and later on during lunch, she eats a very fancy Japanese cuisine. Just by her appearance, you can tell Claire comes from a wealthy family due to her posh expensive clothes and diamond earrings that Bender brings attention to later. Her attire is very sophisticated and she was even in detention for skipping class to go shopping. Claire’s parents are divorced and she is used as a weapon by them to get back at the other, the way she is treated at home affects her thoughts and feelings about her self-worth, which leads to her seeking approval from others. Secondly, Claire is …show more content…
She is constantly used as weapon between her divorced parents to hurt each other. She is a victim of peer pressure and is afraid to stand up for herself. The snobby and self- centered girl is also seemingly insecure. Claire says, “I don't know, I don't... you don't understand, you don't. You're not friends with the same kind of people that Andy and I are friends with! You know, you just don't understand the pressure that they can put on you!” Claire believes that the only way she will be liked is if she is the artificial, “It Girl,” who has rich parents, is the prom queen, popular, and has a pretty
During the early 1920s the Great Depression took place. The Great Depression affected many people's lives. The immigrants caught the worst of it. They had just come from another country and were trying to start their new lives when the depression hit. They had to struggle once more with poverty and desperation in taking care of their families, the main reason they had left their old countries was to escape the same epidemic that was now overtaking ?the land of the free?. Immigrants, such as the Jewish immigrants, had to live in poverty-stricken ghettos without the necessities they needed to live healthy lives. The 1920s was the time of rapid change, it was the time of risque fashion, it was the time of which that if you were rich and had all the latest fashions then you were ?in? but if you did not then you were an outcast.
Rachel was Melinda's friend all of middle school but she turned out to be a complete jerk to Melinda. Heather was a fake friend who only stuck by her side until she was accepted in a ¨cool¨ group. David Petrakis is a nerd who is almost in every one of Melinda's classes. They grow close mostly because they both have no friends, but he is a true friend. Towards the end of the group Melinda starts to come out to Rachel about why she called the police, but Rachel just got even more upset. Melinda thankfully realizes how bad of a friend Rachel is on page 198 ¨I don't want to be cool. I want to grab her by the neck and shake her and scream at her to stop treating me like dirt. She didn't even bother to find out the truth – what kind of friend is that? ¨ Melinda gets close to her art teacher. Art is the one class that Melinda enjoys because she gets to be with her new friend Ivy. Ivy and David are the only people Melinda has, but that is enough for her. On the first day of school Melinda recalls being the only person sitting alone on page 134.¨ I see a few friends people I used to think were my friends—but they look away. ¨ Positively Melinda has found the two only true friends in her school and starts to become a more optimistic
Now I wished that I could pen a letter to my school to be read at the opening assembly that would tell them how wrong we had all been. You should see Zachary Taylor, I’d say.” Lily is realizing now that beauty comes in all colors. She is also again being exposed to the fact that her way of being raised was wrong, that years and years of history was false. “The whole time we worked, I marveled at how mixed up people got when it came to love.
The reinforcement for Clair’s behavior was mainly dependent on the approval she received from her popular peer group. She has a notion that she needs to be “popular” or approved in order to be seen as better in her school. Reinforcement would also be abiding by her parents so she is able to shop with her families wealth. After she had bought something materialistic, it makes her feel good. There was a battle of the reinforcement values in this movie. One was, as stated above, to seek approval of her older known peers known to be stuck-up, condescending, and popular. The other is reinforcement of a more positive virtue. This virtue is as stated, thinking independently and making choices in one’s life for oneself instead of seeking approval from her snobbish peer group. This would help he correct her choices of behavior so they do not become repetitive. At the beginning of the film Clair wasn’t to open to the later reinforcement but then discovered it via introspection through group discussion. They discussed peer groups, virginity, suicide attempts, and assaults. Although many of the ways they talked about each other had been derogatory in some way. Clair still introspected.
One can say that Claire acts selfishly for trying to find men that suit her expectations of a true lover, but to only find men who want sex. Hsün Tzu would also say that Claire’s emotions are chaotic, which cause her to make decisions that she would not reflect on because she is too deep into her own fairytale that she is blind to the fact that she is killing people. In a scene where she is talking to her next victim about just starting out dating men just a week before, she shows no remorse or any emotion that she had killed the man that she said she had dated (Criminal Minds S10 E6 24:04). Unlike Mengzi, Hsün Tzu would agree that reflection would not work for Claire because she is already who she
The story of Anne's childhood must be appreciated in order to understand where her drive, inspiration, and motivation were born. As Anne watches her parents go through the tough times in the South, Anne doesn't understand the reasons as to why their life must this way. In the 1940's, at the time of her youth, Mississippi built on the foundations of segregation. Her mother and father would work out in the fields leaving Anne and her siblings home to raise themselves. Their home consisted of one room and was in no comparison to their white neighbors, bosses. At a very young age Anne began to notice the differences in the ways that they were treated versus ...
In the story on page 37 and 38, Jenny tells the readers about how Kate has changed so much since she went to high school. “Kate had gone to high school leaving me back in 7th grade. Suddenly she didn’t want to go to the library anymore. She wanted to go to the mall. When we go to the pool, she didn’t actually want to go in the water, she wanted to lie around in her bikini and work on her tan. These things were kind of boring to me”. This shows that Jenny is doing things that Kate likes but she doesn't. Jenny needs to figure out how not to be disappointed if her friends change because it is going to happen no matter what.
In the movie, 16 year old Cady Heron was the daughter of zoologist parents. They had been on a 12 year research trip in Africa before returning to the states so Cady was homeschooled most of all her life. While attending public school for the first time, Cady is swept away by who she thought she was to the new person she had become. A “plastic” is what she had become. The Plastics were the most popular girls in school, but also the messiest and most insecure. Downing others to make themselves feel better was what The Plastics lived for. It took for chaos, confusion, and betrayal for them to get to the gist of who they really are as individuals. The adolescence period in one’s life is a very tough and exciting time. A teen is constantly going through changes daily; physically, mentally and emotionally. Those with a strong sense of self make a smooth transition during this period, while others still looking for a sense of belonging seem to struggle. During the middle school years, they begin to develop more interpersonal relationships and peer acceptance be...
Social Psychology is the study of how we think and relate to other people. These psychologists focused on how the social situation influences others behavior. We see social influences everywhere we go, but might not notice it. Like when watching a movie for fun you do not notice it as much as when you are actually looking for the behaviors, like in the film The Breakfast Club. There are several examples of social psychological behaviors in the film.
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.
Five teenagers who don't' know each other spend a Saturday in detention at the suburban school library. At first they squirm, fret and pick on each other. Then after sampling some marijuana, a real encounter session gets underway. The stresses and strains of adolescence have turned their inner lives into a minefield of disappointment, anger and despair.
“Mean Girls” begins as Cady Heron moves back to the United States from Africa where her parents were animal experts. She has an awkward first week of school where she begins to crush on a boy named Aaron Samuels, meets Janice and Damian who show her around campus because no one really wanted to get to know her on a personal level. Janice and Ian begin to spill the dirty secrets of the school including “The Plastics” who are a superficial infamous group who put everyone down. “The Plastics” infiltrate an operation to make Cady one of them, but little do they know that it is all an act to show how fake they are, thanks to Janice Ian. Because Janice and Ian told Cady of all the bad that “The Plastics” hold, she had a schema that Regina George who is the leader of “The Plastics” and her crew, were bad people and that high school was all about popularity. The reason why Janice placed this schema was because she and Regina George used to be friends back in the day. Schemas can be bad or good, but in this case, it was quite bad. It was an act of vengeance. Although the schema may have made Janice and Damian despise “The Plastics,” it made Cady Heron want to be like them. Prejudice is found within “The Plastics” because they don’t just let anyone join their group, the gi...
Through out the story Claire acts very irrational, especially towards men. These irrational acts are caused by the fact that she believes that men are the reason for this girl's death and the murder of women in general, and she shows this by the way she reacts to what Stuart says and towards the men in the story.
She makes her own way, makes her own rules and she makes no apologies. A Bad Girl blazes her own trail and removes obstacles from her path. A Bad Girl fights and forces her way to the top with style and beauty. A Bad Girl believes in jumping first and looking later. People will love you. People will hate you. Others will secretly wish to be you. A Bad Girl is you” (Season 16, episode 3). The framing of these women shows the image of an immature young women outrageous behavior and broken down structure to womanhood. Furthermore, sends a message to young girls that it is okay to act like a “bad girl” for older women in their twenties and late twenties are rewarded with camera time, a limitless supply of alcohol with a limo to chauffeur them to party’s. Normal behavior is portrayed as uninteresting, undesirable and worthless, and is covered up by the drama, fighting and drinking to advertise more normal lifestyle for the girls. Girls are put into a terrible double blind. They 're supposed to repress their power, their anger, and their exuberance and be simply "nice", although they also eventually must compete with men in business world and be successful. They must be overly sexy and attractive but essentially passive and virginal (Kilbourne
The author shows that money can change a characters behavior. You see this behavioral change in Claire by the way she dresses and acts as she is above everyone. In the beginning