The Breakfast Club Psychology
The Breakfast Club was a 1980’s movie that took a look at five high school students. They were all sentenced to a day of Saturday morning detention. All though all five come from different cliques and walks of life they all come together to discuss and work out there lives, problems, and insecurities. The main characters include Claire, Allison, Andy, Brian, and John. They are all stuck in the schools library under the careful watch of the Principle Richard Vernon. All this was accompanied by a little appearance of the lowly but witty school janitor. Claire noted to be the “princess” plays the popular girl in the movie. She was given the Saturday detention because she decided to skip class to go shopping at the mall. She is the daughter
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He is in detention regularly, but on this occasion he is put in detention because the Friday before he pulled a false fire alarm. Throughout the movie is given 2 months full of detention for various acts of defiance and snarky comments. John Bender comes from an abusive home. He only mentions his father who is a drunk that physically and emotionally abuses his son. He is always talking down to Bender and at one point Bender reveals a cigar burn mark his father gave him when he spilled paint in the garage. Thanks to the abuse brought on by his father his attitude towards life and authority is a harsh one. He is very emotionally abusive to the other four in detention. It seems he uses his hostile personality to distance himself from anyone. Bender causes many breaking points in the movie. He helps the other students examine and evaluate themselves. At one point he gets all of the other kids to come with him to his locker so he can retrieve his pot. He then shows his selflessness by sacrificing himself so that the others can return to the library without getting in trouble. After this he is placed in the back closet in Richard’s office. He does escape however when he goes through the venting system and ends up back in the library by crashing through the ceiling. The principle comes in asking what the ruckus was. They all stick up for Bender and do not rat him out. At an earlier point there is a stand off between Vernon and Bender in which all Bender has to do is keep quiet and he wouldn’t receive any additional detentions. However do to Bender’s stubborn nature he doesn’t
He is in detention regularly, but on this occasion he is put in detention because the Friday before he pulled a false fire alarm. Throughout the movie is given 2 months full of detention for various acts of defiance and snarky comments. John Bender comes from an abusive home. He only mentions his father who is a drunk that physically and emotionally abuses his son. He is always talking down to Bender and at one point Bender reveals a cigar burn mark his father gave him when he spilled paint in the garage. Thanks to the abuse brought on by his father his attitude towards life and authority is a harsh one. He is very emotionally abusive to the other four in detention. It seems he uses his hostile personality to distance himself from anyone. Bender causes many breaking points in the movie. He helps the other students examine and evaluate themselves. At one point he gets all of the other kids to come with him to his locker so he can retrieve his pot. He then shows his selflessness by sacrificing himself so that the others can return to the library without getting in trouble. After this he is placed in the back closet in Richard’s office. He does escape however when he goes through the venting system and ends up back in the library by crashing through the ceiling. The principle comes in asking what the ruckus was. They all stick up for Bender and do not rat him out. At an earlier point there is a stand off between Vernon and Bender in which all Bender has to do is keep quiet and he wouldn’t receive any additional detentions. However do to Bender’s stubborn nature he doesn’t