Stereotypes In The Breakfast Club

breakfast club essay
Five high school students get in detention on a Saturday and all of them are different and don't know anything about each other in the beginning. At the start of the movie they all see each other as different stereotypes and think they have nothing in common. There was one popular girl, emotional (shy) girl, Surrey jack (rebel), wrestler (jock), and the nerd. In the beginning of the movie none of them liked each other or knew anything about one another, but the “Surrey jack” (John Bender) he liked the popular girl known as the princess at there school (Claire Standish). John Bender is a rebel, kinda known as a Surrey Jack but not a lot. John is a guy who couldn’t care less about school and no one really knows him. At Sullivan

Heights we have groups like this. There are boys at our school that act like Surrey jacks but also keep their grades up and act cool when they are with there friends.

Claire Standish is one of the main girls that runs the popular group in her own words, “everybody looks up to her and she looks down on everybody”.

The other characters see Claire as a very stuck up and rude person, she’s very immature but try’s to act older and “cool”. We also have a popular group at our school that hangs out together a lot at Sullivan, and they always have to go everywhere together at lunch. To be in these two groups you have to have name brand clothes and to be a surrey jack you have to act cool by smoking or

vaping.

In the movie there’s one shy/weird girl, Allison Reynolds and seems to not fit in with others, she doesn’t talk to anybody in the beginning of the movie but when everybody starts talking to each other, she starts to join along. During detention she learns she is not the only person who feels like a outcast.There's not any emotional students at Sullivan,but there are some shy people.

There’s one wrestler in the movie, Andrew Clark he was known as the jock in the movie. He didn’t talk much in the beginning but once John was being mean to Claire, Andrew would stick up for her. Since Andrew was a wrestler he ate a lot and worked out a lot, but at Sullivan Heights I haven’t seen any wrestlers but I have seen some guys who join a lot of sports teams.

One last guy in detention was Brian Johnson he was known as the nerd in the group.

When everybody was told to write a 1000 word assignment he was willing to write the whole thing, but because nobody else was writing it he didn’t write it either. I can’t say I have seen “nerds” at school because nobody in any of my classes or around the school seems like they they are, there is just some people who are really smart but not known as “nerds”.

At the end of the movie all of the students were supposed to write a essay but instead Brian wrote one essay for everybody saying which stereotype each person was. He explains, everybody is not what they seem like in the movie. During the movie everybody learned they all felt the same way, about nobody's parents paying attention to them. In the beginning of the movie none of them had anything in common, but once they all started talking they found out they all feel the same way.

If i had to put myself in one of these stereotypes I would have to say the popular group because i wouldn’t fit into any of the other

stereotypes.
The popular group would go everywhere together and hang out with the same people, but i don’t go everywhere with my friends at lunch, nor do i hang out with the same people everyday at lunch. Nobody really knows my personality other than my best friend who has known me for a long time but i’m not known as stuck up and rude, i hope i’m not known as that because i’m not trying to be mean to anybody. Usually everybody knows me as the girl who laughs a lot or is really quiet in class. And i don’t wear a lot of name brand clothes only a little bit, so i don’t think i could really be seen as the “popular girl”. To be in this group you have to know everybody in the group, and have to always dress like you don’t care but actually you tried to look nice.I feel like if somebody had got to know me out of school they think i’m not the same person I was before, because in school nobody knows i love to paint, or i’m really good at keeping my stuff cleaned and organized, and the last thing people would be surprised finding out about me would have to be going out and doing artistic things like go to a clay store and paint a clay piece. One thing that i care about but doesn’t fit into my stereotype is painting, i love to paint when i want to get my mind off of something but this would not fit into this stereotype. I doesn’t feel good knowing people are judging you by your stereotype that you fit into because they don’t know I am more than just that stereotype. I could remind myself that it doesn’t matter what stereotype they fit into because there is much more to them then a stereotype.