The Breakfast Club

14 Pages 3464 Words

o is having trouble coping with high school. He looks up to the older, cool kids, yet his parents unbearably demanding academic expectations have driven him to thoughts of suicide. Students who drop out are usually detached and inactive participants in the school experience. The movie focuses on how each teen copes with their individual stresses and how they interact among two thousand hormone driven teenagers. Some of the wittiest and most memorable movie scenes take place in the high school's library. This movie came out before I attended high school, yet I imagined my experience would be similar, and actually, it was.

In today's world the names and faces may have changed, but all in all kids stay the same. The rules and parameters of this game called high school may have changed but teenagers coming of age in today's society have stayed practically the same. You hear a lot of teachers say that the kids are different and that things just aren't the same, it is the teacher who has failed to adapt and modify themselves. High School is a...