Very Intelligent Students In The School example essay topic

The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club is a movie about five totally different students in high school who are forced to spend a Saturday in detention in their school library. The students come from completely different social classes which make it very difficult for any of them to get along. They learn more about each other and their problems that each of them have at home and at school. This movie plays their different personality types against each other.

In this essay I will go into detail about each of the students and the principal individually. The first student I will talk about is the first one to be seen in the movie. This is Claire Standish. Claire is one of the popular girls in the school. Through her social learning she seems to feel that she is socially above everybody who is not in her group of friends, who I envision as being like the snobbish rich kids who went to my school.

Claire comes from a nuclear family. Her parents are clearly the epitome of indulgent parenting. Her father pretty much tells her that it wasn't that wrong of her to skip school to go shopping and that he will make it up to her. Throughout the movie, Claire seems to have an attitude that shows that she holds herself above the other kids who are serving detention with her. She even goes as far as to ask them "Do you know how popular I am? Everybody loves me so much!" She clearly shows that there are no types of risk taking in her life other than skipping school one time to go shopping.

He has never had sex, she shows that she never has drunk alcohol or smoked, and she had never smoked pot. You could tell by her choking when she inhaled the smoke. She follows the leader in her little group she hangs out with at school and tries to constantly fit in. I can imagine that her parents support her in everything that she does and this fits her personality just fine because she strives so hard for people to like her.

The second person that we see in the film is Brian Johnson. He is one of the very intelligent students in the school whom is virtually invisible. He has really good grades and he is excellent in everything that he does, but at the same time he is very hard on himself. At one point he talks about how he feels that he "doesn't like what he sees" when he looks at himself. He was in wood shop and got an "F" on his project. Because of this "F" he would be getting a "B" in wood shop and because of this he sees himself as a total failure.

He admits that the reason that he was in detention was because he was going to commit suicide and he brought the gun to school. He said that he attempted to kill himself but he couldn't pull the trigger. His (flair) gun went off in his locker. He has suicidal ideation.

He thought that suicide was the logical thing to do and he went one step beyond thinking about it and attempted. He just couldn't pull the trigger. He has the ultimate when it comes to parental monitoring. His parents are probably really intelligent and this is why the push him so hard academically.

The reason I think this is because his mother's license plate was "EMC 2" and she made sure that he knew that this (detention) was a one time thing and he should use his time wisely to study. Much like Claire, I feel that Brian is not much of a risk taker. He is a very jumpy kid and is easily told what to do by just about everybody in the movie. The third student in the movie is Andrew Clark. He is a jock. His father drives p in a blazer to drop him off for detention and he gets out with a letterman jacket on (with several letters on it).

You can see from the very beginning that his father only cares about one thing and that is, how successful his son is in wrestling and other sports. His father says "Hey, I screwed around... guys screw around, there is nothing wrong with that, except you got caught, Sport". Brian's father seems to live through him and even though there is a generation gap, he wants his son to be like him, or better than he was in school. I think that Brian would rather do and become everything that other people want him to be than to disappoint them. He likes the attention. You can tell that he is always ready to fight with anybody who gets in his way by the comments he makes throughout the movie.

"If I lose my temper, your totaled man". and "you ask me one more question and I'm beating the shit out of you man". I think that sports and him being tough is Brian's right of passage in his father's eyes. Brian suffers from identity versus role confusion. He feels that it is easy to do what others tell him to do.

This way he can't make the wrong decisions. He knows that he doesn't like sports and yet he stays in them to please his father. Brian in turn sometimes wishes that his knee would give out so that he could quit without disappointing his father by simply quitting for no reason at all. The fourth student that we meet is John Bender. He is an obnoxious high school student who is full of punch lines, sarcastic remarks and a low self esteem. He is the low life of the school.

The one you could buy pot from and always was in trouble. John has a lot of home issues that haunt his day to day life. He had been abused both physically and mentally by his father and his mother is never mentioned through out the movie. He has no parental monitoring. I get the feeling that his father could care less when he comes home and allows him to wander the streets at night. He is full of externalizing problems.

Whenever somebody does anything that they are proud of, He will be there to cut them down. He has a very negative active aggression that comes out all of the time. He wants everybody to feel the way that he does and really doesn't care who he hurts. John Bender also suffers from identity diffusion.

He doesn't seem to care what his identity is and almost prides himself with being the opposite of whoever is around him. Secretly he wants people to like him. He shows this by getting himself caught when the whole group went into the hall to go to the locker. The final student that we see is the really shy and mysterious Allison Reynolds. She pulls up at the school riding in the back seat of her parent's car. She gets out and the car immediately pulls away before she can say bye.

This shows that there is little to no communication between her and her parents. When we first meet her she comes off as kind of crazy. It is like she is unable to function with normal people. We finally hear her speak about half way through the movie and find out that she is a chronic liar and a thief. You can see that she (much like a child) says anything that she can in order to get people to pay attention to her. This is probably because of the level of attention that she receives from her parents.

She claims that she has slept with hundreds of people and is currently sleeping with her shrink. She wants them to pity her for being sexually abused, but she reveals later that she is actually a virgin. She creates a false self to make people pity her, like her, or just simply listen to her. The principal is pretty much a "Dick". Richard Vernon is his name, to be exact.

He seems like he is just another person holding down the good morals of the students. After all, the students are in detention. They aren't in jail and can't really be treated the way that he treats them. The principal thinks that everybody is out to get him. He thinks that the students "have turned against" him. More than likely he was just a little guy when he was in school and was picked on.

Now he is making everybody pay for what the kids did when he was in school. He thinks of the students as "little punks". As for the group being friends after this day in detention. I don't think they will all ever become friends. They will all think that they are friends for a little while and then they will go back to their normal routines where they hang out with their same old friends and slowly forget each other. After all, just because they are friends doesn't mean that their normal everyday friends will accept them.

Their friends still see them "as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal". I really did not learn that much from this movie, but I have always been able to relate to it. In high school, my sister was very popular, my brother was a wrestler, my youngest sister was on the swim team, and I kind of did my own thing. I grew up with friends from each of these groups and I can say that all of them had their ups and downs.

This has always been one of my favorite movies. I own all of the movies that this producer has made. They are all corny 1980's movies. I love em!