Almost every student has thought the same thing at some point, but lacks the confidence needed to express these feelings to the public. Gatto uses a story about his grandfather teaching him that boredom was a characteristic of immature and untrustworthy people, which humanizes him to the readers. Gatto’s most often used technique was to indicate people that have made
The movie, The Breakfast Club, displays how a group of kids can be divided and, at the same time, connected by social labels. Social labels divide groups of people by their behavior, interests, and appearance. Most people today would say that social labels are detrimental toward our societies. In reality, everyone is constantly working to maintain their own personal label. Everyone has been labeled and has labeled someone in their lifetime so why have people put a bad rap on them?
Junior treated like nothing by his peers being ridiculed for his actions, criticized for birth defects. In the story Junior states, “Everybody on the rez calls me a retard about twice a day. They call me retard when they are pantsing me or stuffing my head in the toilet or just smacking me upside the head” (4). Junior’s peers sit and call him a retard when he is one of smartest students at the school. The kids on the rez make Junior’s life a living hell down talking him for things that aren’t his fault, things he can’t change.
Although Baba is very judgmental and strict towards Amir, he loves seeing him succeed. Baba is proud of Amir for his victory, for it means a lot to him for his son to win the
Breakfast is served… In the movie “The Breakfast Club”, I think that John Bender and Andrew Clark are most like me. I think that Allison Reynolds is not like me at all. John Bender kind of matches my personality because he is rebellious and I sort of am as well. He also is very annoying and a lot of people tell me I am annoying too. John Bender likes to make trouble and havoc in the school when he is in detention and somedays I just try to make trouble for no reason.
In the beginning each character comes in to the situation with varied perceptions of each other, this variance of character analysis leads to a verbal environment that is both tense and lacking any real communication. Each character plays an important role but John Bender the rebel, carries many important character traits that create a catalyst to communication. Bender was cocky, arrogant, confident, and overall very rude and pushy. You see this when he gets into an argument with the principal, Bender would not allow the principal to have the last word, Bender wont back down this gets him 2 months detention. Even though he knew he could never
To whom it may concern, As I ponder the academic future of my child, I sit down and think of my academic past. I attended Hatch Middle School when I was a teenager. I didn’t like it, at all. I was bullied for no reason. I was always worried about being beaten because of my ethnic background.
He has many sides of him and is just trying to see how he fits in. He is very stubborn and sometimes a bit rude but overall, a good guy. The story starts with Holden in Pency Prep School that is located in Pennsylvania. He has already been kicked out of the private school for flunking in all his classes except English. His parents still don’t know about it and he knows they will be furious when they find out that he’s been kicked out of yet another school.
He was a freshman at Heath High School in Heath, KY, who was constantly picked on. Michael had the impression that kids could take advantage of him and he would never stand up to the people bullying him. The rage just continued to build up inside. After a humiliating experience at school where Michael was rumored to be gay: he snapped. He was quoted as saying, "they ALL mocked and slaughtered my self esteem it got so bad I had to turn to drugs."
Eventually I was moved from classes due to my insubordination and i was content at the time. In seventh grade I was still identified as a "Gifted and Talented" student but was in regular ed classes. My rebellion that year was much worse than the year before. It was mainly caused by the people I would hangout with and of course myself for letting myself be influenced by them. I started skipping class, leaving the campus and just generally not caring about my education.