Every individual has their own struggles and issues that they face on a daily basis. Being late to work, forgetting to hand in an assignment, missing your bus, societal pressure from your friends and relationships are all scenarios we may face in everyday life. In the iconic film The Breakfast Club by John Hughes (1985), it presents struggles that are common within teenage years. Psychologists have analyzed this film in attempts to explain various struggles placed among the adolescents that they face within the contents of the movie. David L. Kaye and Emily Ets-Hokin, introduce the underlying principles of how mass media, such as movies and television shows, can help us understand adolescent development in a context that we can understand by placing everyday life scenarios to help us learn who we are and where we stand in society. The film takes place in Illinois on a Saturday morning, where it introduces the five …show more content…
112). As Mr. Vernon instructs the students not to shut the library door, John goes against Vernon’s commands and shuts it anyways. Soon after, Vernon storms in asking who shut the door, in which all the students say that the door ‘shut on its own’. Kaye and Ets-Hokin establish this scene of developing peer groups (Kaye & Ets-Hokin, 2000, p. 112). Peer groups are individuals that may not necessarily be friends, but are groups of individuals that are the same age. The peer groups can be beneficial for these adolescents since it will help them separate from their families and become more of an independent person and realize who they are. This scene makes it clear that the group of students create a barrier from authority (Kaye & Ets-Hokin, 2000, p. 112). The film puts a strain on the clear distinction from parents to adolescents – making it evident that these teens do not want help or guidance from higher