In "The Breakfast Club" five contrasting personalities, each secure in his identity and yet filled with insecurities, spend a Saturday confined in detention at their school, Shermer High, in Illinois. ... School, thru peer pressure and thru the various academic and social clubs, serves to enhance the socialization process begun at home. ... Brian is a member of the physics, Latin and math clubs at the school and thinking everyone would accept him socially for that, he brags about it and everyone looks at him as being even dorkier, Bender says, "So it's sorta social..demented and sad, but ...

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Five kids who seem to have nothing in common find self validation and develop a mutual relationship throughout one Saturday detention. The film deals with various topics but for this essay I will only focus on the group dynamics such as communication, the development of the group, and primary, secondary needs meet by the group. The film shows five kids which each fit a stereotypical teen model. The princess, the rebel, the brain, the jock, and the basket case. They are all forced to spend a day in detention pondering what they did to get in their in the first place. ...

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• Grade Level: High School