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The Breakfast Club- Analytical Essay

An inner journey is something you take throughout your lifetime; it can be spiritual, emotional or physical. Inner journeys can help you grow by accomplishing your goals, finding yourself and what you love and feeling confident in your own body. The film ‘The Breakfast Club’, directed by John Hughes, is a good example of people going through inner journeys together. This film consists of five students, Bender, Claire, Andrew, Allison, Brian, and the principal of the school. The students have earned an all day detention. Which can give each student a way to express themselves.

One of the characters in the breakfast club that demonstrates an inner journey is Claire Standish. Claire is represented as the’ …show more content…

Bender is a troublesome kid who is stereotyped as a criminal. He is a bully, messes with everyone, rebellious and just rude. In the opening scene Bender is shown walking to the school he was displayed in a longshot looking “thrilled” to be there. This portrays that he’s not as fortunate to get a lift to school as he was seen walking to the school. During the film Bender goes for a run around in the school to save all the other students. He screams and runs around like a maniac until he finally gets caught by the principal he's taken back to the detention room and proceeds to get yelled at. The principal yells and says ‘what if your dope was on …show more content…

They come from two totally different worlds. But during the course of the film they share their parts of their life with each other which shows that deep down they both have feelings and are not as different as they thought they’re both stubborn and care about themselves but things for them at home are completely different. Claire comes from a wealthy family which although being rich is a good life she still has the pain of her parents competing with each other as to who is the better parent. As Bender comes from a broken family who don't really care about him at all they just abuse him mentally and physically. He deals with constant neglect and is often left to fend for himself. Claire and Bender both realize to themselves that they don't have to live up to the stereotypes that have been placed on them because of their lives at

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