Why Are They Called the Breakfast Club?

 

Please look up the idea “fragment” for writing.

Want to eat bacon and eggs for breakfast. Every sentence needs a

S. V. O. The best sentence is the simple sentence. I have corrected a lot of fragments in this class.

Chronological order.

1.    Butch is a little boy. A soldier who served with his dad in the Vietnam War brings him a wristwatch.   The plot structure is bookends. The diner starts and ends the movie, with the stories in between.

Genre: Drama, dark humor (comedy), coming of age

Themes

Conformity: when the society forces you to be the same as other people; David Bowie is the opposite of conformity: “Turn and face the strange.” People conform because they are afraid of being noticed.

Cookie cutter: everything looks the same and built the same; this is a metaphor for a cookie cutter we use for cooking

Cliques: the different groups in a school (power)

The narrator is talking about cliques.

1.    Jocks: good at sports: athlete

2.    Nerd/Dorks: not strong, but good at studying (often bullied)

3.    Skaters or punks; rebels; criminal

4.    Cheerleaders: prom queen; princess

5.    Rockers or headbangers

6.    Weirdos? Basket case

Theme: Adults who don’t understand

Theme: Power tripping teachers who want respect but have not earned it

Opening Credits

Why is the student punished for giving an opinion and asking a question? The teacher asks: “Does anyone have questions?” When Bender then asks a question, he is punished.

Idiom: “You mess with the bull, you get the horns.”

In literature, the theme: “The myth of the noble savage.” When someone from a rich, industrial country meets someone from a poor, non-technological place and assumes they know more about things. Actually, the latter person might have wisdom which leads to asking questions that cannot be answered.

Notice how the janitor responds to Bender’s irony and questions compared to the teacher.