In the movie, The Breakfast Club, there are five students: John, Andrew, Claire, Allison, and Brian who all have to spend a Saturday in detention together. The students are all from different cliques and seem to have nothing in common with one another. As the day progresses they realize that they do have a lot in common especially the fact that they are all dealing with issues at home with their parents. As they are in detention, the assistant principal instructs them each to write a one thousand word essay about who they think they are. They all have difficulty with this assignment because they do not know who they are, they simply become whoever they are around in order to fit in. By the end of detention each one of the students have discovered who they are and are no longer afraid to be who they are. They have also discovered a friendship. Brian writes the essay explaining to the assistant principal that it does not matter what they write in the essay about who they are because he has already made up in his mind who they are. The movie The Breakfast Club examines many different issues that are relevant in today's student life and the different situations that they go through. The movie takes a look at these different situations by themes such as trust, friendship, pressure, and stereotypes.
The first theme is trust. Trust is when a person is able to share something with someone and they will keep it confidential and not share it with others. It is not having fears and hesitation to tell someone about their issues or something that is bothering them. If two people trust each other they will expose their vulnerabilities to each other which means that they believe that the other person will not take advantage of their openness. Trust is being able to rely on that person for anything and know that they will never turn their back on the other person. When people put their trust in someone they confide in them and share information with them, usually personal and or private.
