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    In the The Breakfast Club Claire is the Prom Queen within the film. She is the most popular and wealthiest teen of the group. Claire is in detention for cutting class to go to the mall. She is quite used to being shielded by her group of friends and has affectionate parents who spoil and treat her in spitefulness of one another. She is snooty and stuck up and confesses to not having the longing to hang out with anybody who is not popular. She also acknowledges she feels forced by her friends to act

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    The Breakfast Club is a movie about a group of kids at Shermer High School in the 1980s who bond during their stint in Saturday detention. Each of the four teenagers represented show differing cliques that can be ever so present in high school. Claire Standish is a snobbish rich girl that looks down on her fellow schoolmates that do not match her similar appearance and behavior. Andrew Clark is a varsity wrestler that personifies the jock stereotype and hangs around with the popular girls like Claire

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    The Breakfast Club consists of a principle, Richard Vernon, and 5 teenagers who spend a Saturday together because they have detention. The students are diverse and come from different social groups: Claire “the Princess”, Allison “a quiet Outcast”, John “a Rebel”, Brian “the Nerd”, and Andrew “the Jock”. The “mean” principle orders the students to write a 1000 word essay on “Who You Think You Are?” Instead the teens, fall asleep, talk to each other, and roam the halls. Outside of having detention

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    I choose to watch the breakfast club movie and relate it back to the stereotypes that are displayed throughout the movie. I am going to focus on several different things that I saw throughout the movie such as stereotypes, deviance, socialization, and family. A stereotype is a label that is applied to a social group of people or an individual that represent a certain group or name. Deviance is not following normal standards that are socially accepted in society. The film also demonstrated different

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    For the movie The Breakfast Club I am picking the character Claire the Prom Queen because she changed a lot during the movie and I could say that all of the characters did change during the movie as well. Claire at the beginning of the movie she was such a brat to the other it seemed like because she is so popular that she doesn’t care what other people say but really she cares what all of the others say. Bender says that she is a brat pretty much and when everybody is high they are all talking about

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    Essay on Breakfast Club

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    I have seen the breakfast club three times before taking this class and then saw it for a fourth time during class and I must say that it is defiantly one of my favourite movies. Before this class, I loved it because it was a fun movie depicting teenage school life in its simplest form and it was more or less something I could relate to. I noticed only the funny quotes; close calls and random scenes that made me say “Ha! It’s funny because it’s true.” Such as the scene where all the characters are

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    Breakfast Club Identity

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    The Breakfast Club When a group of high school students, no more than acquaintances are put into detention together for 8 hours they learn a lot about themselves and their peers. The Breakfast Club shows many different challenges and process that students face while going through this adolescent stage of their life. One of the main themes of this movie was finding themselves, or defining their "identity". Finding ones self, and discovering who you should be around is a very important process

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    “The Breakfast Club” is a great blend of comedy and drama, a high school library and five teenage kids. Each of the high school students have violated the school rules in one way or another placing them in detention: all day long, on a Saturday, from 8 to 4, confined in the school library. They arrive at the school one at a time. There’s Brian “the brain” (Anthony Michael Hall), Andrew “an athlete” (Emilio Estevez), Allison “a basket case” (Allison Reynolds), Claire “a princess” (Molly Ringwald)

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    Breakfast Club film contained a wide variety of behavior and stereotypes. Each person had their own 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. Before I explain how the tensions between the characters rise and how they get along afterward

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    In the movie “The Breakfast Club” all of the characters end up having similar problems in their life. One of the most obvious problems that face this group is problems with their families. John Bender relates in some way to each character. His dad and family are not supportive of him and abuse him when he does something that they do not like or for no reason at all. This is similar to Andrew because he faces pressure from his parents and coaches to be the best athlete possible. Bender can also relate

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