"Breakfast of Champions" In Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions‚ the narrator believes Americans are doing the best to live "like the characters in story books" (pg. 49). He believes that the problems our planet faces are a direct result of our individual desires to attain our story book perfect lives. Through this "colorful" and outrageous story of two white men‚ Kilgore Trout and Dwayne Hoover‚ Vonnegut twists in some of his concerns and criticisms of the typical American life with humor and
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Introduction Attention getting material Imagine yourself in close proximity with 4 strangers nothing like you. That’s what the characters’ in The Breakfast Club were faced with. Tie to audience For this specific setting a group of 5 eclectic students are forced into serving 9 hours of Saturday detention for whatever they had done wrong. In attendance is a “princess” (Claire Standish)‚ an “athlete” (Andrew Clark)‚ a “brain” (Brian Johnson)‚ a “criminal” (John Bender) and a “basket case” (Allison
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Roya Sanders GE 347 12-29-11 The Breakfast Club Critique: Group Formation Forming is the anxiety and uncertainty about belonging to a group. As the group forms and matures‚ natural leaders will emerge. Members in these roles will change several times during the forming phase of group development. In the beginning of the movie‚ all five students arrive at the school on a Saturday morning for detention. The bully- bender‚ is the first to start talking and cause trouble. Storming is when competition
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the film The Breakfast Club‚ written by John Hughes‚ that creates a more negative input on stereotyping. Berne’s uses a theory of basic human types as an example of a scientific subject made for nonscientists‚ where in the article he breaks down categories of people’s appearances to help them reflect on their own personalities. On the other hand‚ Hughes engages in a different theory of how to let people recognize stereotyping by giving a different perspective of it. In The Breakfast Club Berne’s
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us...In the simplest terms‚ in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain...an athlete...a basket case...a princess...and a criminal...Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours‚ the Breakfast Club." The Breakfast Club is a story about five seemingly different students who have to spend their Saturday in school detention. They are each given an assignment to write an essay on who they think they are. Throughout the day‚ the students bond with one
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For my movie analysis assignment‚ I chose to watch the movie The Breakfast Club. The breakfast club‚ written by John Hughes in 1985‚ is an American teen drama film full of stereotypical gender roles. The characters in this film have all violated a rule at Shermer High School‚ located in Shermer‚ Illinois. The five students in the film all violated a rule at Shermer High resulting in a Saturday morning detention. The five students having to report for the Saturday morning detention do not share the
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Stereotype/prejudice pg. 309 -Brian fundamental attribution error - Bender agression- displacement- pg. 360 - Andrew The Breakfast Club- Social Psychology The Breakfast Club is a dramatic film by John Hughes from 1985. The story takes place in the library at Shermer high school in Illinois. The movie records‚ five students from very different cliques as they spend an all day Saturday detention with one another under the supervision of a very forbidding principal. This movie is unique because it
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The Breakfast Club is a movie that brings together 5 students‚ all belonging to 5 cliques that can be found in any school‚ the Jocks‚ the Brains‚ the Criminals‚ The Princesses (the girls who own the school) and the Basket-cases. At the beginning of the movie‚ these 5 seemingly very different people had nothing to say to each other‚ but throughout the movie the sanctions of each clique become less and less relevant and they find that they themselves have formed their own clique (the Breakfast Club)
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The Breakfast Club (1985) Midterm Paper The movie “The Breakfast Club” portrays five main characters all from a different set of cliques in Saturday morning detention in an Illinois high school. Their detention is a result of myriad violations. Each character has different stereotypes‚ home lives‚ and issues but find out they have several similarities. The theme of this movie is to accept yourself for who you are. This movie focuses on different people getting to know and get along with each
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Breakfast Foods Morning‚ for me‚ is the gloomiest past of the day. I always feel that I’am missing about three hours of sleep. I realize that if I don’t wake up and get to where I don’t want to be‚ my livelihood as I know it would ease to exist! I have to face the dilemma of what to make for breakfast as well. Being at the state between dream and reality‚ it would help me to be more creative if breakfast foods are less limited‚ but more often than not‚ the option include cold cereals‚ hot
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