Andrew Erikson's Character In The Breakfast Club

Life is not what everybody expects as days pass life changes and gets harder every day. In Hope’s boy, Andrew Bridge was a 5 year old boy who had the love from her mother and share a deep connection with, who thought that nothing else mattered. However, ended up getting separated from her mother at only 7 years of age because of her mother’s mental illness. Nevertheless, Andrew suffered from her mother’s separation having to be placed in a foster care and deal with loveless foster parents. Andrew was placed with the family Leonard’s who refuse to identify him as one of their children. Andrew experience emotional and physical abuse in the Leonard’s household. Mrs. Leonard was such a heartless person to Andrew. There was a time when little things will make Mrs. Leonard mad such as maybe Andrew leaving socks in the floor, not picking up after himself or maybe nothing at all and take it out on him. Andrew Bridge stated “Digging into my arms or grabbing at my face, she screamed that the foster child in front of her was ungrateful, lazy, obnoxious, confrontational, stupid, and undeserving. With her hand at my ear or at the base of my neck, she pulled me to the floor and through rooms” (181-182). This shows how the Leonard’s treated Andrew using physical abuse. Mrs. Leonard wanted to make Andrew feel what she felt when she was a young girl. As if Andrew didn’t had enough with Mrs. Leonard’s rejection he had to suffer being emotional abuse, bulled by Christopher Mrs. Leonard’s son.

In all of our lives there are goals we have, values we possess, and strengths and weaknesses that make us who we are. All of us, no matter if we are a jock, or a brain, someone who succeeds in education, or someone who wants so badly to get out, face barriers in our lives. Some of us come from broken families, some us of come from abusive situations, but all of us have a unique and individual story. At the heart of this story are the struggles we have experienced, the people we have associated ourselves with, and the lessons we have learnt along the way. Such can be said about my own life, and the lives of the characters from the Breakfast Club. The characters from the Breakfast Club that I feel most represent me are: Claire Standish (The

Last week I read, “Big Jesse, Little Jesse,” of Oscar Casares’ fictional novel Brownsville. “Big Jesse, Little Jesse,” tells the story of a twenty-four-year-old father, Jesse, who struggles to retain a father-son relationship with his physically disabled son. Throughout the story, Jesse continuously treats his son, as a boy without a physical disability. His state-of-denial further blinds him of his self-pride that views his son’s disability as a public failure. Jesse has the same machismo characteristics of other characters of Brownsville however, Jesse’s story is the first time that we see a man become humiliated. In this post, I would like to analyze the characteristics of pride in Jesse, as well describe how his hubris becomes broken.

Ferris constantly lies to play with people and get his own way which demonstrates his other superiority. He talks to classmates on school pay phone telling them he might need kidney transplant because he might be dying. He tells one of the girls that, “I don’t know. I hope not. I think I might need a kidney transplant.” making them pity him “Shit. I hope he doesn't die. I can't handle summer school.”

The second theory examined is Erik Erikson’s eight stages of psychosocial development. Each stage in Erikson’s theory involves a conflict/crisis that a person must work through to evolve their personality. Rosenthal (1981) explains that, “Each stage arises because a new dimension of social interaction

The protagonist of Tears of a Tiger is Andrew “Andy” Jackson. Andrew is seventeen years old and plays basketball for Hazelwood High School. During the story, sometimes Andrew is playful and loving, but at times he becomes very depressed. As quoted (Draper 164) Andrew states “It’s not that I want to die- it’s just that I can’t stand the hurt and pain inside to go away,” this sentence states that (at the moment) Andrew is very overwhelmed and is contemplating suicide. Other times he is a really cool and a fun person to hang around with. One student wrote (Draper 174) “...cracking jokes with the teacher, charming the girls with that freaky smile, and laughing when you flunked one of those pop quizzes… I wanted to be like you- popular and likable and well known.” Andrew was a very cool and popular person.

So, naturally, she fell in love with him. Perhaps the one quality that unites everyone is that they all have trouble with their parents. Claire’s problem is that she is used as a weapon to the other “spouse” of her parents and the only way she can escape that destiny is to be with friends as much as possible, liking going to the mall and doing other stuff that she has built up in her mind of being cool. Bender was hated by his parents and probably was an “accident.” The way his parents treated him built up this image of himself in his mind that was negative; and therefore, made him negative. Brian was pushed to over achieve by his parents and so when he finally got an “F” he thought that it was the end of the world, when in fact he most likely doesn’t care. He does not think for himself, he thinks, “What are my parents going to think?” Andrew thinks the same way. He stated openly that he does not care if he wins or loses, and that he sometimes wishes that his leg would give so that he would not have to wrestle anymore. Last, Alison was ignored by her parents; forcing her to think that everyone must ignore her.

The Breakfast Club is an inspiring tale of five adolescents: Brian, Andrew, Claire, John Bender, and Allison, from diverse backgrounds that unite over a course of eight grueling hours in mandatory Saturday detention. These five individuals come from different social groups and a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds are present, but in the end they discover that they are more alike than they assumed.

John Hughes's The Breakfast Club is one of film history’s most iconic and renowned movies and is a cornerstone of 1980’s pop-culture. The Breakfast Club showcases five unique high school students who all unfortunately find themselves imprisoned in an all-day Saturday detention. The students go as following: Claire (a pretty girl), Brian (the nerd), John (the bad boy), Andrew (an athlete), and Allison (the strange, goth girl). These students come from very different backgrounds and social settings which proves to spark many conflicts between them as well as with their supervisor Mr. Vernon. But through this conflict they find similarities between themselves, and after spending nine hours locked up together, they find resolution within themselves and with their new friends. Psychology can explain why this happened as well as what caused other events to occur. This paper will examine four different psychological phenomena: stereotypes, conformity/normative social influence, ingroup versus outgroup/superordinate goals, and the various causes of attraction.

The first reason why Andrew is hopeful is because he is hardworking. “He and I collect luggage carts and return them for 50 cents.” Everyone would say that returning luggage carts is very difficult, especially for a five or six year old boy. This really shows Andrew’s great character, moreover, his hard work.

In middle childhood (aged 6-12), the child will experience the Industry vs. Inferiority stage. This is the fourth stage of Erikson’s psychosocial stage. With the previous three

Also, he is doing this with no home and not many belongings. In the story Andrew learns to be grateful in all times even when he doesn’t have many belongings with him. One way he does this is by cherishing the food he has. He cherishes the doughnuts and milk he eats for breakfast and sometimes he even gets orange juice.

There are five main characters in The Breakfast Club. Claire, played by Molly Ringwald, is the rich snob of the group. She is characterized as being very self-centered and conceited. She is in detention because she skipped classes to go shopping one afternoon. Claire puts on a façade that she has a great familial and social life, but in actuality, she is upset with her family and unsure about her friends. The bully of the group is John (Bender), who is played by actor Judd Nelson. Bender is a person who has a lot of issues with himself, which he masquerades with a tough guy exterior, dry humor and sarcasm. Bender ended up in detention because he set off a fire alarm. Another member of The Breakfast Club is Andrew, played by actor Emilio Estevez. Andrew is the jock of the group and on the surface it seems that he is only concerned with pleasing his father and coaches by winning. In actuality, Andrew has a lot of anger and resentment towards his father, coach and himself, because of the person he is becoming. Because he pulled a cruel prank on a classmate, he has ended up in detention. Allison, played by Ally Sheedy, is the emotional basket case of the group. Though she does not speak for the first half of the film, when she finally does start talking, she does not stop. Throughout her conversations in the movie, Allison is covering up her true self, with the lies and embellishments

Andrew is labeled as a jock because his life is sports. He is on the high school wrestling team and we see through what he wear and what he eats he cares about it, but his dad is a factor in him maintaining his harsh jock status, he also feels pressured like Brian except in his case his dad wants him to be ultra masculine and tough.

The play The Browning Version is centered around the life of the schoolmaster Andrew Crocker-Harris who instructs the classics at the fifth level. From the play, it is clear that Andrew has a deep appreciation for the classics and keen sense of translation of them. Mr. Crocker was once considered a teacher that everyone would laugh at for the way he taught, but Mr. Crocker was fine with that because it was easier to teach with humor rather than be strict or beat the students. With the new students that are going through his level everyone seems to be more intrigued in doing science experiments rather than classical translations. On top of that Andrew faces a myriad of issues that are happening to him. He is retiring from his schoolmaster position due to a heart condition that makes him ill and is not receiving any type of pension or accommodations after instructing at the public school for 18 years. Mr. Crocker is also disliked or not respected by the students, his colleagues, and Millie, as she is having an affair with another schoolmaster. Taplow has been with Mr. Crocker-Harris and is not sure whether or not he will be released into the next level. He enjoys Mr. Crocker as a teacher as many people do not. On the last day of the term before the students are notified if they are released or not Taplow comes into Andrew 's study.