Bending Personality Characterized as the “criminal”, Bender is a rebellious teenager constantly labelled as a failure throughout the film. He doesn't show any care about authority or his peers for that matter, he likes being a smartass and wise crack for attention and seems to be on track to becoming a dropout. Dresses like typical delinquent, denim jacket ratty clothes, earring, etc. Bender acts out verbally and physically, disrupting and even getting put into a room to himself. As the film progresses we become sympathetic and come to an understanding about the reasons behind Benders’ actions and language. Piaget's stages of cognitive development is the layout of the normal stages of intellectual progress including thought, judgement and knowledge, from childhood to adulthood. Bender is at the stage of abstract reasoning and formal operation, he causes a lot of problems but also solves them, wanted the door closed so he stole the screw that held it open, he wanted his …show more content…
Bender as all the other students in the breakfast club are in the identity vs. role confusion, and he is seeping into intimacy vs. isolation. He talks about identity with everyone else, saying how Claire is a princess with daddy's money, how Brian has a perfect life and is the nerd, basically he stereotypes everyone and he not only accepts the role he was put into of the bad boy but he enjoys it. All his relationships have just been games and none have been worthwhile, because he feels socially isolated with his family and school staff so he carries that on with his peers and relationships. He gets to understand himself through others as the movie goes on. When he says Andrews dads and his dad should go bowling, he gets insight into himself, and with Claire he realizes that she gets him and instead of harassing her they makeout at the