The Breakfast Club: The Five Stages Of Group Development

Several days after the meeting the employees are called into the kitchen even though there are customers still at their tables. The manager informs the employees that restaurant is a “drug-free” workplace meaning that all current employees and new hires are going to be tested. Also, that all employees will be randomly tested. Phillip reports that there has been drug activity on the night shift and this is the results of it. Junior high school is the image that comes to mind for Ehrenreich; as the employees are lined up and threatened with locker searches. The management showers the staff with accusations, when asked why the crackdown there is just a whisper about “management decisions”.

Its mission is to change the culture in middle schools to make kids feel more accepted and valued.Social isolation and bullying are now considered huge problems in schools. The program tries to reverse this trend by giving students simple and fun ways to include others during lunchtime — making sure no one eats alone, said Laura Talmus. She is the founder of Beyond Differences.Middle school was a rough couple of years for Talmus’ daughter, Lili Smith, who was born with a craniofacial syndrome. Children with the condition have facial or skull bones that do not grow normally.”(By St. Louis Post-Dispatch, adapted by Newsela staff,2015)This show that other make others feel like they are accepted in their school and be a member. In the article “Thousands of students work to make middle school lunchrooms friendlier”. Say’s At Rogers Middle School in Affton, Missouri, resistance to No One Eats Alone Day began after students learned of it through the morning announcements. The student organizers heard that a lot of students were worried that they wouldn’t get to sit next to their friends.(By St. Louis Post-Dispatch, adapted by Newsela staff, 2015).This shows that kid feel that their friends don't really think of them as friends in the article “Thousands of students work to make middle school lunchrooms friendlier” it says On Friday, the student members of the school’s Mistreatment Leadership Team, an anti-bullying group, placed conversation starters on the round tables in their cafeteria. There were questions like, “Who is your favorite celeb?” and “Who is your role model?”(By St. Louis Post-Dispatch, adapted by Newsela staff, 2015). This shows that other help other on the anti bullying so other don't feel left out.This is why kids

High school, the stage of life when young adults begin to learn of their place in society and the lessons of life. The harsh conditions of being thrown into an ocean of peer pressure, social status, world issues and varying opinions causes rapid growth to occur. Some gather into groups, called cliques, to overcome these hardships, while others fight them head on by themselves. In the coming to age movie, The Breakfast Club, five different high school teenagers are forced to be together one Saturday morning and afternoon in detention. Brian Johnson the brain, Andrew Clarke the athlete, Allison Reynolds the basket case, Claire Standish the princess and John Bender the criminal, are all forced to be caged together and think about who they

They all managed to find something in common and bond over it. Once they were done getting high they all sat in a circle and talked about themselves, about why they’re in detention and how they feel like they have to try and impress their families or prove themselves to someone. The Breakfast Club realized that they’re more alike than they think because they’re complete opposite social groups but they all somehow relate to each other. They see themselves in each other. If they never gotten a detention in the first place, then they wouldn’t have realized how similar they are to others around them.

A Saturday in detention at Shermer high school is where The Breakfast Club takes place. At the start of the movie viewers were immediately made aware of the stereotypes

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.

People today struggle with the social pressure among their peers to be a specific way, and “Breakfast Club” depicts this point. In the movie, five kids of different high school stereotypes meet in Saturday School. Throughout the day the adolescents begin informing each other about their lives, talents, secrets, etc. By the end of their eight hours of detention, they realize they have much more in common and they actually become friends, or intimate partners (Hughes, 1986).

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 basketcase.

Unfortunately, the media has a strong control over the appearance of adolescents. This appearance of adolescents are typically looked at in a negative view. As if the stress from the media is not enough, adolescents also face the obstacles of being stereotyped, the intense peer influence they face, and also the silent social system that is present among schools and everyday life. In the films, The Breakfast Club and Mean Girls these similar themes take place. These films allow the focused adolescents to triumph through hardships that are placed on them by the media, their peers, and their environments. These two films may have a few surface generational differences between them, however, the overall themes stay the same.

"Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But we think you are crazy to make an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us. In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found in each of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question?" This quote was given by Brian, in an essay assigned during his Saturday detention. The Breakfast Club was directed by John Hughes in 1985 and still, to this day, is considered many Americans favorite films, including myself. To me, this film represents most of the different cliques of high school and shows how they interact with each other, and eventually learn to open up, become friends, and overcome a common obstacle. The breakfast club is an excellent film for almost anyone, considering that most people attend high school and can relate to one, if not all, of the characters in

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.

The Breakfast Club is about a small group of individuals and how they interact with each other during one Saturday Detention.

The movie The Breakfast Club is about five teenagers that all seem different in the beginning, but after being forced to spend their Saturday together the brain, athlete, basket case, princess, and criminal are told to write an essay about who they think they are. To come to the realization of who they really are, the students put aside their differences to help them survive the painful eight hours of detention and to find out that they really are not that different. Each of the five students have their own personalities that are shown, and they are explained through either environmental or parental influences.

Examples of group development can be seen in various movies including the movie The Breakfast Club. This movie takes place in 1984 at a high school where five students have to spend a full day together in detention on a Saturday. All five of these students are part of different social groups at their school. For example, John Bender is rebellious and uses drugs and comes across as aggressive, while Brian Johnson is a nerd who participates in extracurricular academic activities. Andrew Clarke is also actively involved in school, but with sports instead- he is a wrestler. The two other students are females: Allison Reynolds is quiet and is considered an outcast, and Claire Standish is viewed as a princess who gets whatever she wants from her

The Social Penetration Theory, adapted by Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor, is based on the idea that people are layered like onions, (Griffin 133). These layers are made up by different things that hide an individual’s true self. One’s true self can include his or her hopes, fears, likes, dislikes, aspirations and other things that one thinks about. For individuals to become close, they must get past all of the facades and disclose their true selves to one another. In the movie The Breakfast Club, each of the main characters exemplifies this theory. At the beginning of the movie, characters Claire, John, Andrew, Allison, and Brian are each individuals who separate themselves from one