Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory highlights one stage that is relevant and demonstrated in the 1985 movie‚ The Breakfast Club. Identity vs. Role Diffusion‚ or also known as‚ Stage 5‚ is the foundation for the characters and plot of this movie. To begin with‚ the plot of the movie deals with a group of adolescents dealing with stereotypes and finding their identities. At the beginning of the movie‚ the teens are in “fragile” and “detrimental-like” stages. They do not really know who they are‚
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The movie The Breakfast Club is about five students in spending their day in saturday detention. All of these characters have completely different personalities from one another‚ which makes the movie more interesting than it already is. The character that I will be doing my character analysis on is named John Bender. John Bender is the troublemaker of the group‚ and‚ in my opinion‚ the funniest. John is introduced into the movie at the same time as the other characters. Some of the first impressions
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Shane Seemann The Nonverbal Club The Breakfast Club is such an interesting movie to use with this topic. The wide range of characters allows for a variety of different interactions. The way we are going to approach this‚ is to look at each character and examine the different interactions between. Let us first start off with some good examples of Physical Appearances and Artifacts‚ or the personal objects we use to announce our identities‚ interests and backgrounds. Our appearance includes
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is useful in cohering a poorly organized group‚ especially a group of young high school students as in the movie‚ The Breakfast Club. The first stage of group development is the forming stage. Forming is when members get to know each other and find common ground‚ while the group leader provides structure‚ direction and ground rules. For example‚ in the movie‚ The Breakfast Club‚ the forming stage was the point at which students were forced into a group during detention‚ which provided structure
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The character I picked from The Breakfast Club is Allison Reynolds. This character relates to me by how she is quiet and doesn’t speak much when she isn’t comfortable with the people around her‚ eventually she will become comfortable and show her true self. She is also like me by the way how she lies a lot‚ and how she does admit to lying later on. I lie sometimes‚ just not as much‚ plus my lies aren’t as bad as Allison’s. I can visualize myself‚ and some of my friends in Allison.I can visualize
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The Breakfast Club Soundtrack The breakfast club has one of the most unique and memorable soundtracks of all time. Something that made the movie gave it such a memorable track and the movies “theme song”‚ "Don’t You (Forget About Me)" by the band Simple minds. Something that the movie did that not none to many movies had done at that point. They used this song twice‚ once at the beginning at once at the end. The two times this song is played in this movie‚ each function is shown. It shows genre because
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Adolescent Development The Breakfast Club (1985)‚ displays many stereotypes of adolescents‚ which are more commonly referred to as irrational teenagers. The adolescents cannot help their behaviors‚ to an extent‚ as it is all biological. They are merely trying to figure out their identities‚ and need to experiment with their superiors in that time. Their hormone levels are changing‚ helping them transition from children to adults. Imaginary Audience As adolescents‚ the group in detention all have
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Oh what can you really learn in Saturday detention. The Breakfast Club film contained a wide variety of behavior and stereotypes. Each person had there on personality and taste at the beginning of the film. I believe that communication played the biggest part in the movie. It shows the way that people from totally different backgrounds can communicate and even agree on issues. The various types of communication and behaviors within the film will be discussed. To begin with the film started out with
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of “The Breakfast Club” The features of Generation-Xers were efficiently showed in this movie. For most Generation-Xers they were lack of sense of safety and social identity‚ they were dissatisfied with the government because a lack of trust in leadership‚ which caused their misleading personality trait. When they watch The Breakfast Club they have to have the same sense of this movie. In the United States only a small part of people had taken drug in 1980s but over half of Breakfast Clubber
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The movie The Breakfast Club has many interesting characters. All of them pertaining to different groups in school with different personalities and lifestyles as well. There is a jock‚ a troublemaker‚ a spoiled girl‚ a nerd‚ and a basket case. Even though at the beginning they all feel a little uncomfortable being there‚ they eventually end up getting to know each other a little bit. Things that they end up finding out is that even though they’re all different they can all relate to each other because
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