the breakfast club
The Breakfast Club Reaction Paper
The Breakfast Club is a 1985 film based on five students from entirely different social groups forced to spend an eight hour Saturday detention together for their own individual reasons. The five students were all given the same assignment, to write an essay about “who you think you are" and the acts they committed to end up in Saturday detention. As high school students of course they put off the assignment until the last minute and instead they passed the hours dancing, fighting, smoking marijuana, and getting to know each other. Eventually they found out that they had a lot more than they thought in common regarding their family life and that each one of them was insecure in their own way. The five students were easily able to relate to each other and they became friends, the only tension left between the group was the inevitably painful question, “Would they all remain friends once the detention was over?” It was not until the very end of the movie that the characters really opened up and revealed the answer to that question. The characters developed relationships with one another foreshadowing their future friendships and with the consensus of the group one assignment was handed in for the five of them. In response to the question “who do you think you are?” the group responded,
"Dear Mr. Vernon,
We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong, but we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us. In the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question?
Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club.” The Breakfast Club is a prime example of deviance for every character in the film is deviant in some way. Both positive and negative deviance, as well as the
The Breakfast Club is a 1985 film based on five students from entirely different social groups forced to spend an eight hour Saturday detention together for their own individual reasons. The five students were all given the same assignment, to write an essay about “who you think you are" and the acts they committed to end up in Saturday detention. As high school students of course they put off the assignment until the last minute and instead they passed the hours dancing, fighting, smoking marijuana, and getting to know each other. Eventually they found out that they had a lot more than they thought in common regarding their family life and that each one of them was insecure in their own way. The five students were easily able to relate to each other and they became friends, the only tension left between the group was the inevitably painful question, “Would they all remain friends once the detention was over?” It was not until the very end of the movie that the characters really opened up and revealed the answer to that question. The characters developed relationships with one another foreshadowing their future friendships and with the consensus of the group one assignment was handed in for the five of them. In response to the question “who do you think you are?” the group responded,
"Dear Mr. Vernon,
We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong, but we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us. In the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question?
Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club.” The Breakfast Club is a prime example of deviance for every character in the film is deviant in some way. Both positive and negative deviance, as well as the