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    athlete, Claire is a princess, Allison a basket case, Brian the brain, and John Bender the criminal. But throughout the movie they learn more and more about each other and find that they all have a lot of common problems and beliefs. In his film The Breakfast Club, John Hughes uses the Star-crossed lovers and loyal companions archetypes to reveal how we as humans fail to recognize how trustful a person can be, because we let our differences control how we act and feel towards others and their beliefs.

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    The Breakfast Club: Review Isn’t it amazing how people in different social groups can come together and find similar interests? The Breakfast Club is a classic film which intertwines a bunch of different personalities into a close friendship. This lively group is transformed into a society when they all realize that their dilemma is the saturday detention. The characters all began in the ‘out group’ and moved closer when they start sharing secrets and family issues with each other. In reality, this

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    “Screws fall out, the world is an imperfect place.” –The Breakfast Club. This quote captures the theme of the movie of a flawed society in which cliques override human nature. The Breakfast Club is a timeless movie as it shows a social hierarchy, human intuition, and the inevitable imperfections of life that will always live on our world. The movie begins showing five social classes in detention for different offences. Immediately the troublemaker begins his role by distinguishing the characteristics

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    The Breakfast Club was a film created in 1985 and throughout the years proved to be a classic. The movie, centered around 5 students, all in detention due to their deviant behaviors. The principal, Mr. Vernon is the antagonist, tries to torment the kids, giving them a harsh Saturday detention and keeping them ahold in the school's library. From the beginning of the movie, their differences are shown as they all dislike each other, causing major conflict. Progressively as they begin to learn from

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    All great movies have three specific qualities.They all have believable characters that show different characteristics. They all have a well written plot that captures the reader's attention. They also have a universal theme. The Breakfast Club was directed by John Hughes and was released in 1985, the actors (Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy and Anthony Michael Hall) played the roles of five teenagers. The movie was based on five teenagers in highschool who got stuck in Saturday

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    The Breakfast Club, directed by John Hughes, is a movie that has become a classic for many generations. It is about five high school students, all from different cliques, that come together during detention and discover that they all share common problems they would have never imagined. Each student did something completely different yet they all broke the rules and ended up meeting. Those few hours in that room opened not only their eyes, but also the viewers’ eyes on how wrong we can be during

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    The Breakfast Club The John Hughes film The Breakfast Club gives the account of a Saturday detention at Shermer High School, where a group of five distinctively different high school students comes together. Consequently, teen drama follows. The movie wholly spotlights social psychology topics. These topics include but are not limited to social roles, relationships, conformality, prejudices, and persuasion. Of these topics, the concept of social roles holds a vast importance to the overall target

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    The Breakfast Club Essay

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    The Breakfast Club by John Hughes, follows 5 unique students : the popular girl, the basket case, the geek, the bad boy and the jock. Forced to endure the restlessness of detention, the students are given an assignment to develop an essay that expresses who they are as an individual. After an afternoon of bonding, the student collective write : “You see us as you want to see us…each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question

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    The Breakfast Club Today, many teenagers are portrayed as misunderstood by adults. However, the truth is, teenagers are not misunderstood at all. One of the first films that portrays the truth behind teenagers distant and deceiving behavior is The Breakfast Club. This film shows that all teenagers are not misunderstood, but are looked down upon by adults and authority figures. The film touches base on almost every stereotypical teenager; the athlete, the princess, the criminal, the brain and the

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    The Breakfast Club brings many types of peoples, and many types of personalities together. I personally think I relate to all of them, not completely because they all have characteristics that I think I also have. John is this bad kid who does and says whatever he wants to do. Claire is the pristine goodie goodie. Allison is this strange girl who is considered to be a basket case. Andrew is the jock whose main concern is westing. Brian is a depressed brainiac. Firstly, I relate to John because he

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