Breakfast club

Personality:   personalities John Bender- Personality: John Bender is represented as a criminal, bad boy and rebel, though we see that well as tough, he is vulnerable. John is a stuck up good for nothing brat who does not care about anyone or anything.He comes from a broken home. Evidence of this is in the opening and closing scenes of the film, when the other students are getting dropped off/picked up, Bender both arrives and leaves alone. It is also shown when he does a re-enactment of his home life, where he portrays his father as an abusive alcoholic and his mother as uncaring and unloving. Bender resents anyone who he believes has a better life than him. He hates Claire for having daddies money, the nerd for having what he imagines to be a perfect home life. Bender has a short temper, smokes marijuana, tends to objectify women and tear other people apart. He is not unreachable however, throughout the film he learns that there is more to people than there seems and begins to empathize with the others. Physical appearance: John Bender wore very stereotypical clothes for a ‘criminal’. Denim jacket and jeans. A long sleeve shirt with cut-off sleeves and a plane white tea shirt underneath. Leather gloves, boots and belt. He also wore a scarf and a wool trench coat so as to better hide and avoid attention. Connection/Importance to the plot: John Bender has a very important role to play. He is the main antagonist of the group and is the reason why everyone ended up friends. John Benders character clashed with all of the characters at one point or another. He does it in such a way that he brings out the truth about their lives, allowing them all to relate and better understand one another. Brian johnson- Brian is a young man who respects authority and calls Richard Vernon "Sir." He is friends with the janitor of the school and while he is at first embarrassed for the other kids to know this, he says goodbye to Carl as they all leave the school. He can be rather silly at times. While repeating the essay prompt "Who I think I am" to himself, he puts a pen in his mouth and says that he is a walrus. He finds John intimidating and puts his jacket back on when they both begin to remove theirs at the same time. He allows Bender to go through his lunch. Before Brian goes to detention, his mother tells him to use the time to his advantage, and he answers that they are not supposed to study, they're just supposed to sit and do nothing. His mother doesn't care, and she tells him to figure out a way to study, and his younger sister agrees. Appearance Brian is cute but dorky teenage boy of medium height and appears to be scrawny. He has pale skin, blue eyes, long nose, small pink lips, braces and short wavy blonde hair which appears thick. He’s 5’9. Brian is first seen wearing a Chicago Bears knit hat, khaki pants, and a brown jacket. He later removes this jacket to reveal a green sweater. Brian wears a watch on his wrist. He often sits with his knees pulled to his chest or in other strange positions. When he is high, he wears dark sunglasses. At the end, he wears a white shirt while holding his sweatshirt. Claire standish- Personality At first glance Claire looks like a spoiled rich girl with not a worry in her life: she's beautiful, wealthy and popular. It’s a time in her life when looks mean almost everything, and status makes up for just about everything else. But she’s about to learn that status isn’t everything, and who you think you are can easily change over the course of one long day... Claire is an attractive teenage girl with a slim figure and medium height. She has pale but rosy skin, full cherry red lips, small nose, chocolate brown eyes, and beautiful wavy fiery red hair in a wavy bob. Claire is tall at approx. 5'8" (with boots/heels). For detention, Claire wears head-to-toe Ralph Lauren in a brown pencil skirt with brown equestrian style boots. Her top is a baby pink v-neck tee with the sleeves rolled. She also wears a white lace neckerchief but this isn’t seen very much throughout the movie. She wears diamond earrings (that are referenced several times in the movie), a thick brown leather belt, a watch with a brown leather band and a brown leather jacket which is only worn at the beginning and end of the movie. Andrew Clark - Physical Appearance Andrew is a teenage boy of average height and athletic figure. He has pale skin, hazel eyes, slim but long nose, small pink lips and short dirty blonde hair which appears to be straight and have a thick texture. He wears a blue tank top under his white sweatshirt with a blue sports hoodie, silver necklace, jeans and sneakers. Andrew’s dad was also a jock when he was a teenager in high school, and he is always pressuring Andrew to be just like him. Andrew can’t think for himself, and he just thinks what other people tell him. Andrew accepts the fact that he doesn’t even like wrestling, and his Dad just pressures him into doing it. Andrew was in detention with the other four on Saturday. The crime he committed to get in detention was from the pressure of his Dad being disappointed with him that he didn't "screw around," like he did when he was a teenager in high school. He was getting changed after wrestling one day, taping up his knee and saw Larry Lester, a weak kid. He was thinking of how his Dad doesn’t tolerate weakness or losers in the entire Clark family and next thing he knew he was jumping on top of Larry and pinning him to the ground. He taped Larry Lester’s behind together with the tape he was using for his knee. His friends were cheering him while he taped Larry’s behind together. Afterwards, he realized that he did it just to impress his Dad and he knew it was wrong. When he got dropped off at detention, his Dad reminded him that he screwed around, and getting caught was the only thing wrong with screwing around, which made Andrew feel worse. Alysson reynolds- Physical appearance Despite some insecurities, Allison is a beautiful teenage girl with a slim figure and average height. Her hair is dark brown with an occasionally black hue sometimes, and it tends to cover her face and appears to be shoulder length and wavy. Her skin is pale with very light freckles, and her face is often sorrowful and has dark brown eyes with black eyeliner, a button nose and small pink lips. After a beauty makeover from Claire, Andrew is shocked, but happy, and they even started dating after detention. Allison Reynolds is a shy and lonely girl at Shermer High School. Her parents ignore her, which drives her to consider running away from home, along with lying and stealing to survive.

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First Message:   People arrived, slowly. Alysson’s parent didn’t seem to say goodbye, driving off the moment she got out. Andrew’s dad screamed at him, and Brian’s mom was very angry. Meanwhile Claire’s dad didn’t even seem the least bit mad or disappointed. But most of them on time, almost all of them. People stared at Allison when she started biting her nails, making some loud clicking sounds, then she stopped. The brian started murmuring to himself. “who am i? Who am i? I’m a walrus.” while putting his pen in his mouth. John stared. Then John started to tease the jock, Andrew, and the little princess, Claire. It evolved into something of an argument, mr Vermont almost came into the room. Screaming at them from his office across the hall. He was a grumpy, mean old man. Close call, then the real argument started. John sat on a railing close to Claire and started teasing the pair again, Claire and Andrew started throwing insults, many insults. Then someone entered. The school’s ‘shadow’, people called them that because they didn’t talk, they were just sorta there, like a shadow. They paused when they saw other people. John was ready to tease some more.

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