“The Breakfast Club” is a movie directed by John Hughes. It is a film that was produced in the year 1985, featuring five teenagers. The film is set to portray certain themes, in particular on the issues that concern the youth.
The video shows the various challenges that most teenagers go through, where they face the challenge of being understood by the society, their families, as well as themselves. The movie presents the theme of perpetual skirmish of most American teenagers to be followed. The teens face the challenge of societal rejection, as well as being misunderstood. This problem is shown by the various problems the five teenagers go through, both in their families and the school where they learn.
The movie also demonstrates the theme of Stereotyping. Many teens face the challenge of stereotyping, where they are either branded names or even characterized as useless people in the society. The majority of the teens do not get the attention they need, and so, when they act to draw the attention, they are stereotyped, as either bad people, or even useless individuals in the society (Ebert, 1985).
Human Development Process
There are various challenges that the youth faces in the society in their process of development. The challenges faced are usually based on the physical factors, the cognitive factors, as well as the socio-emotional issues that face the youth. The majority of the teenagers, especially girls face the challenge of understanding themselves. A majority of the girls have problems in establishing a healthy relationship between themselves and the society as a whole (Powell, 2000).
Many girls and boys in their teenage stage have a lot of challenges with their environment that usually includes school, home, as well as the general public, in which the teenagers stay. Most of the teenagers have challenges because they do not feel connected to their families, the society or even the people at the schools where they spend most of their time.
Many teenagers face rejection and stereotyping, which makes them drift further from the society in which they are supposed to be growing. Most of the youth have the feeling that they are disconnected from the rest of the world and that they live in a world of their own. Connection and relativity are imperative for any person who is in their teenage stages. The relationships usually draw the teenagers into the family setup as well as the roles that the society expects them to play (Choudhury et al., 2006).
Many teens in their process of growth face the challenge of 'separation' or 'individuation' in most of their growth stages. The society and the community in which the youth are presented into have no, or even have little to offer regarding support to the feelings and the ideas of most teenagers. Many families expect their growing teens to behave in a manner that expresses maturity, yet the teens usually tend to act in accordance with their peers. The environment in which the teens operate also has a greater influence on their lives. In most cases, the teens will only act in a manner that shows disrespect to the people, yet to them, all they are doing is acceptable and legitimate.
Human development is a step by step process, which employs the increase in the discrepancy, as well as the personal involvement in the development process itself. Human development is a stage that incorporates the process of exposure, and interaction with a greater range of momentous people, as well as the interaction with great institutions over a period. Human development involves the process that requires the continuous resolution of skirmishes in the human life, which usually occur in the process of development. The conflicts are experienced during the rudimentary eight stages of human growth. The human development process pays a lot of attentions to the resolution of the various conflicts that occur during the development stages of children, especially the teenagers. Resolution of the conflicts is usually necessary for the benefit of the current and future development of the teens, which are based on the success merit (Farrell, c, 2005).
Many teenagers also face a challenge when to come to the communication processes. Many teens face the challenge of communication as well as expression. Most of the teenagers have problems when it comes to the expression of their feelings, their ideas as well as their positions in any debate. Most families and communities do not even take the teenagers seriously, and this affects their cognitive ability (Keating & Clark, 1980).
The emotional perspective is a vital sin the development of adolescents. Many teenagers have various aspects that are emotionally connected. It is the psychological aspects that drive many teens to commit harmful actions in their lives. Various emotional and cognitive issues are associated with the lives of many youths. Various aspects drive the emotional and the cognitive aspects in the teenagers’ development such as the personal affection and allegiance among the peer friendships.
The drive by emotions usually makes the teens respond differently to the various aspects that are intertwined and connected to the whole process of human development. The relationships between the teenagers and the mature members of the society are usually faced with a lot of challenges such as the augmentation of the various emotional concentrations among the two members. The problem can, however, be addressed through the continuous and the renegotiation of I the many issues that affect the relationships between the teenagers and the adult members. The process of solving the problem aims at gaining sovereignty among the teenagers as well as maintaining the emotional chumminess (Gowers, c. 2005).
The human development that usually bases its understanding in the elaboration of the youth is based on individual factors such as an identity of oneself especially during the adolescent stages, the Peer relationships, which provide and act as the avenue for various experiments in life. The majority of the teenagers in their development stages are also faced with the Peer groups’ acceptance, the eager to gain popularity amongst the peer members, as well as the problem of rejection Teenagers have to deal with a lot of issues in their process of development, so as to enhance their personal problems.
May teenagers have to come up with the various challenges that they face during their school lives. The majority of the people do not have the ability to enhance their academic goals, due to the pressures they experience from school, home, and even their friends. A majority of the teenagers have to struggle to keep themselves at school, at the same time, maintaining good results.
The peer pressures, the need to experiment their sexual orientation as well as the need to have critical and reasonable ability to handle issues is a major factor. The lives of many teenagers are faced with the problem of conflicts, drugs, alcohol and substance abuse. The teens usually experiment with the drugs, with the aim of creating a relaxing atmosphere, creating a social class, creating a stronger companionship among themselves, as well as having the excitement.
Human development, therefore, can be said to be the motivational guide, of which there are a collective physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional features. The attributes are meant, so as to have a balanced and a healthy development process of the teenagers, for them to have a smooth entry into adulthood, there should be a strong correlation between the three attributes, that is, the physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional features. For any teenager to develop to a responsible person, there must be a connection between the three factors. The society, the parents, as well as the families should be able to support, and even guide the teenagers on the right paths; that would lead them to success.
The Relationship between the Human Development and the Movie “The Breakfast Club.”
Various relationships are shown by the human development process based on the physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional features, with the film, “The Breakfast Club” by John Hughes. The characters presented in the movie are teenagers that are facing various challenges, based on their educational environment, the peer groups, the stereotyping processes, the emotional and the cognitive aspects. The characters are depicted as people who face numerous challenges even from their families. The teenagers have various and different family background sand even status but the problems that face them are similar. The teens are confronted with the challenges such as family problems, personal problems, as well as social recognition. The students try to attain their personal satisfaction through various ways. They even some Cannabis Sativa, as a way of making them feel better. The students even show some aspects of intimacy as well as socio-emotional attributes.
The movie, “The Breakfast Club”, has a clear presentation of the process of human development in various aspects. The video shows all the elements that are experienced by many teenagers in their lives. The teenagers are therefore faced with numerous challenges, which usually face them in the process of development. The stages of development are, however, characterized by the ability to solve the problems, and come up with a clear directive on what needs to be done by the young people. The physical affection and relationships are essential in the development of the young people. The warmth, the intimacy, the family closeness, and ties help in the elaboration of the young people to becoming, strong, healthy and even independent individuals. The development is, therefore, a process that needs to be taken care of by all members of the family, and the society.
The movie has been able to show the challenges and the vices critically that young people undergo in the process of human development. The movie has been able to put across all the challenges that the teenagers face, and the reasons why they address the challenges. However, the film presents some vices that are found within the group. The vices include the use of drugs such as cannabis, as well as the intention to involve in sexual activities, only for pleasure and attribution to the peer pressures.
References
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