The Breakfast Club

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“The Breakfast Club,” was a movie that focused on teen’s behavior in high school, and their behavior with each other. In the movie five very different teenagers were forced to associate, and be exposed to each other, while serving eight-hours of confinement in detention. Each student was from a certain clique, or group in the high school atmosphere, such as the princess (Claire Standish), jock (Andrew Clark), nerd (Brian Johnson), troublemaker (John Bender), and basket case (Allison Reynolds). To make matters worse they had to be dictated by a troubled school official, who many of them eventually clashed with. Going into this situation they had know idea what they were getting into, but they ended up having more in common then what they thought. This movie can relate to more than one of the Sociological Theories, and by asking me to choose one, is asking for an incomplete paper. I believe “The Breakfast Club,” has Conflict theory in the beginning, when pertaining to the fighting between Bender, the teacher, Allison, and Andrew. Yet in the ending of the movie it all ties up with functionalist theory, because they eventually understand one another.

Naturally when placing two obviously dominate male teenagers together who have different views on life, and different experiences, there is going to be some moderate complications. This happened when there was a confrontation between Bender, the aspiring criminal, and Andrew, the school jock. When Bender continues to bother, and taunt Claire, Andrew steps in the way, attempting to defend her. I didn’t only think of him as just trying to help her out, I think it was a non-direct attack to Bender. Andrew didn’t seem to be very fond of corruptive male students like Bender, and Bender portrayed the bad boy stereotype that is commonly tagged on him. They seemed to be in competition throughout this movie, and ended up having a physical fight in the detention room. Even though Andre...