Breakfast_Club

Breakfast Club In "The Breakfast Club" five different personalities, each safe in their identity and yet filled with insecurities, spend a lazy Saturday confined to detention at Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois, for a variety of school violations. Throughout the movie your introduced to a variety of different characters such as the princess, the jock, the brain, the rebel, and the freak. Mr. Vernon, the teacher in charge of the students, unwittingly assigns an essay with the subject "who am I". As the movie goes on the students begin to rebel more and more against Mr. Vernon. Yet each character has a troubled life as foreshadowed by their very presence in detention and show the different personalities each have. John Bender, the criminal, is the main character in the movie and functions as the catalyst or the instigator. To me he seems to be characterized under the Psychoanalytic theory that Freud started. One by one, he shocks and exposes each student's insecurities, which would be an example of the pleasure principal. John is subjected to severe mental and physical abuse at home. His father hammers him with vulgar names and brands his forearm with a lit cigar for spilling paint school, movie, life, under, out, others, each, detention, character, yet, students, seems, personalities, one, mr, freak, first, everyone, different, because, vernon, variety, think, theory, shermer, rebel, princess, parents, outlook, next, john, introvert, insecurities, home, goes, friends, five, finds, criminal, clearly, characterized, categorized, better, attention, yells, years, with, who’s, vulgar, violations