The Breakfast Club Themes

"Coming of age" basically just means growing up—and in The Breakfast Club, the main characters have to do this while dealing with a world of clueless adults who don't understand anything and are...

No one in The Breakfast Club is ultimately all that happy with what they've got, whether what they have would typically be judged "good" or not. What John Bender has is pretty terrible by any stand...

No one gets along with their parents in The Breakfast Club. Bender's father abuses him, even burning him with a cigar at one point. The other kids' parents aren't physically abusive, but they don't...

Before the action of The Breakfast Club starts, the characters' friends are all drawn from their own cliques. Those friendships are based on shared stereotypes (they all identify as jocks or crimin...

This might be the big theme of The Breakfast Club, the one that knits all the other themes together. Everyone in this movie has an identity socially defined by their peers and by the adults who are...