John Bender High School Personality

After eating her lunch Stargirl would get up and play her ukulele and started to sing to whomever had a birthday that day. She left gifts on desks in her homeroom. Stargirl’s behavior was very unusual for the other students and they were not friendly and nice to her, but this did not keep her from being herself. The other students found Stargirl’s behavior suspicious. They believe the school’s administration placed Stargirl among them to get them to be more involved.

Josie Alibrandi feels suffocated by her Italian heritage and her mother and strict grandmother are there to remind her every day. Growing up in Australia during the 90’s, she is completing her last year in high school, on a scholarship as vice-captain at a prestigious catholic school, St Martha’s in Sydney. Most of Josie’s primary school friends went to public schools while she ended up with a scholarship to a private all girls’ school. Luckily she found a place with Lee, Sera and Anna. They all came together at the start of high school as they felt they didn’t fit in to any other groups.

Noah Dolieslager Period 3 Advanced English Stargirl Thesis In Jerry Spinelli’s Stargirl, Stargirl is a homeschooled girl that starts going to a public high school for the first time. At Mica Area High School, all the students are the same. When Stargirl arrives, she is very different compared to the students. After she starts doing weird things, the students start to not like her.

Children in the age range thirteen to fifteen are often transitioning through a critical time of their lives. They frequently look to others as a cicerone on how they themselves should act. In the novel, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino calls the cops on an end-of-summer party at which she was raped. The novel depicts Melinda’s excursion as to how she copes with the heart-wrenching events that have affected her momentously as well as creating “[a] frightening and sobering look at the cruelty and viciousness that pervade much of contemporary high school life.” (Kirkus Reviews, Pointer Review).

" This detention brings them together and causes them to cross social barriers that they otherwise never would have. The students are tasked with writing an essay about who they are and what helps them figure this out more than the essay is their time spent together that day. This film is iconic for demonstrating

Throughout the movie we see the different groups in high school that relate to one another in a way that allows high school to function the way it

The film The Breakfast Club follows five students who must serve a school detention on a Saturday due to a various wrongdoing. Due to this behaviour, they are sanctioned through the means of a weekend detention in hopes that they will never go against the school’s rules, values and norms again. The five students are noticeably different and each represents a certain subculture within the school. John Bender is one of the five students and is defined as the criminal of the group.

A Glimpse Into the Developmental Roles of Adolescents The Breakfast Club is a movie about five high school students who have to serve detention one Saturday morning. When each student arrives, the viewer gets a brief glimpse into the characters backgrounds. At the beginning of the day you can clearly see the separation among the five students. Claire is considered the princess, Andrew is the athlete, Brian is the brain, Allison is the basket case, and John Bender is the criminal.

The most hated plot in America is the underdog’s demise- the empathetic pain of scrutiny, and the failure we all miss to escape. The scrawny, glasses-wearing outsider is often the underdog, the hero we all cheer for. The one who makes all the refinements in a society that is stagnant to change. And his most successful storytelling, or retelling, is that in the setting of high school. He walks awkwardly down the hall with his shoulders slightly hunched inward and mouth slightly ajar.

The main characters are Claire Standish, the princess; Andrew Clarke, the jock; Brian Johnson, the brain; Allison Reynolds, the basket case; John Bender, the criminal, and Richard Vernon the principle. This movie shows five young adolescent people trying to figure out who they are in high school. Which can be very difficult with peers and the awkwardness of being a teenager. The first part of this movie opens to each of the characters being dropped off by their parents. When Claire’s

Once at the deaf school Matt thrived and quickly became the star of the wrestling team. He learned sign language and met a lot of deaf and hard of hearing friends. Bonnie on the other hand went to a hearing college and forced herself to succeed. She had a lot of troubles in class to start but she found a few ways to cope. One of the ways is that she had upperclassmen take notes for her and she studied constantly.

High school isn’t necessarily the best four years of everyone’s life. In a short time the audience was shown the complicated endeavors many teenagers either overcome or become wrapped up in. Although Brian is extremely successful in his academics he struggles deep beneath his skin with extensive pressure and societal acceptance. Brian Johnson is one example of someone who was almost defeated by the difficult

The students of The Breakfast Club failed to realize what they had in common because they judged one another based on how they appeared on the outside. Even the principal, Mr. Vernon viewed the students based on their actions but not their inner self. At the start of detention, he explained that he wanted each student to write an essay within eight hours explaining who they thought they were. Mr. Vernon already had his impressions of each student based on the way they performed at school. In Mr. Vernon’s mind, Andy is an athlete, Claire is a princess, John is a criminal, Allison is a basket case, and Brian is a brain.

The problem Wallace faces is when he has to do a book report about, Old Shep, My Pal, his teachers favorite book. Mr. Fogelman, his teacher is frustrated at Wallace because all he writes about is how much he hates the book

In the movie, The Breakfast Club, five high school students spend their Saturday detention together. The popular girl Claire Standish, the athlete Andrew Clark, the nerd Brian Johnson, the outcast Allison Reynolds, and the rebellious delinquent John Bender must put aside their differences to survive their detention with their assistant principal, Mr. Vernon. While in detention, they are told to write about “who they really are” in one thousand words. Throughout the day, they reveal their struggles involving their cliques and their home lives. As the movie progresses, the audience finds out the reason each teen is in detention which brings up a discussion about who they really are.