Communication In The Film 'The Breakfast Club'

In the well-known film, The Breakfast Club, five random high school students must spend their Saturday together in detention. Each student is in detention for a different reason and each person has their own unique personality and values that are prevalent throughout the entire film. I believe that communication played a crucial role in the movie. Even with different tastes, personalities, and backgrounds, the characters still found ways to communicate with each other and agree with one another on issues and ideas surrounding their lives. Two characters from the movie that I found to be most like myself were Andrew Clark and Brian Johnson and a character that I found to be the least like me would be Allison Reynolds. The first character from the movie that closely matches my own self

Allison comes off as a very antisocial and withdrawn. She can also be considered a compulsive liar as she says a lot of things in order to set up a false persona of who she actually is. She does not talk much and her main issue in the movie is that she experiences parental neglect at home and wants to run away because she feels as though she has nothing to lose. Because of her nonsocial and quiet nature, ways of how she communicates non-verbally would be through her silence and physical appearance - (Chapter 5: Nonverbal Communications, Nonverbal codes). An example from the movie where she uses her silence to her advantage would be when she pressures Claire into revealing a secret of hers. First, she makes up a lie to appeal to Claire and then the silence that followed her lie helped her achieve a specific event (getting Claire to reveal, admit to the truth). In regards to her physical appearance in the movie, she is seen as a messy individual and wears a huge parka to cover her face, therefore coming off as a person who does not want to engage in any form of