The breakfast club

The breakfast club


One of the character’s, Claire, is perceived as the preppy, popular girl. Coming from a rich family, gives her the advantage of having anything she could ask for. Portraying her character as spoiled. Her parents are constantly fighting and use their daughter, Claire, aFor this project I decided I would watch The Breakfast Club an extraordinary film directed by John Hughes. In the film, there are five contrasting personalities, each secure in with their identity, who spend a saturday confined in detention at their high school, taking place actually in Illinois. Each character that was chosen has a troubled life as we can tell by their presence in detention. As one might observe each individual and their backgrounds, you can then analyze each character’s exclusive personality. As detention goes on they open up more and more and end up learning a lot from each other. They tell each other things that not even their closest friends might know. Surprisingly, the story concludes with the lesson that they find out they have way more things in common than they originally had thought. The film is a perfect depiction of how somebody’s socialization is developed and affected by certain experiences they go through.
s the median. Causing her to have a low worth of herself, and then leading her to want to be accepted by others. At school, Claire is put on a pedestal and admired by many. Then causing her to to come off as conceited and a girl who only cares about her self. Claire is affected by her family and peers. At home she’s a different person than she acts in school. She even admits that she probably wouldn’t be friends with the other kids inside of detention when they all got out.

Claire is also a great representation of the theory we spoke elaborately on in- class. The theory known as “the looking glass self”, a theory developed by Charles Cooley. The theory suggest that someone perceives himself based off how they feel others view them. Pretty much saying that our...

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