John Bender...
The director has portrayed Bender to come across and the rebellious stereotypical teenage ‘criminal’. Bender is always worried to what his peers may think of him so he is always trying to show off through being rebellious to teachers. All of the characters have expected futures, The teacher believes that bender is going to turn out like his parents in jail with no professional career. Bender is expected to be not very intelligent, though benders intelligence is shown through social interactions, bender knows how to mess with peoples heads to get what he wants which is one of his talents. Bender changes throughout the movie as he shows his acceptance towards other social cliques for example Claire, also showing his honesty towards others. Bender always wants to impress everyone and not show his emotions. At first Bender comes across as the stereotypical 'basket case' in the first scene when they were getting dropped off, Bender walked there rather then being reliant on his parents by his parent dropping him off. Then when we got to know bender we learn what are his real traits and how he always wants to impress others with his insults for others.