Essay on Biblical References in Pulp Fiction

He was constantly high on heroin, and when he was not, he was grumpy and abusive towards her. Eventually in times of lonesome, Baby got a hold of drugs on her own. First, she tried magic mushrooms. At first, getting high was a way for Baby to entertain herself. However, she eventually tried her father’s drug of choice, heroin. She quickly becomes addicted to the feeling she gets when high off this drug. Heroin entwines itself into Baby’s day-to-day life and begins to impair her normal decision making, “There wasn’t much, but there was enough to make all my anger dissipate. As soon as I was high, I couldn’t even remember what my escape plan had been (569).”Her quick addiction allows Baby to find an escape from her reality. Turning to drugs to fill the void her parents left within her childhood is not only temporary, but it is dangerous. People close to Baby demonstrate first-hand the dangers that this coping mechanism can pose. Her pimp, Alphonse, even died of an overdose with her in the room, “As soon as I looked at Alphonse’s face, I knew that he was dead, even though I had never seen a dead body before (604).” Baby’s method of coping from her father’s negligence is to turn to the exact thing that she witness ruin him, heroin. However, as a child of her age, she would not know any better. Her father is happier and more affectionate towards her while he is high, so it would only make sense to her to think that she would be the

after removing the chip from the back of her phone, she hunts down and tracks her alt. After following her alt into an alley, she sees that her alt hired a striker to kill her. She gets shot in the left shoulder and only narrowly escapes thanks to chord scaring them off. After Chord patches up her shoulder, she runs away from him again, but this time, she goes to another striker job. After killing the target, she finds an empty room and sleeps there for a while until her alt’s striker found her and tried to get the jump on her. After getting outsmarted by West, she kills him and runs away to her alt’s house. When she gets there, she finds out that the striker that she killed was her alt’s boyfriend and that the next day, her alt was going to attack Chord. She immediately runs to chord’s house and tells him about her alt’s plans, only to find that he knew all along. The next morning she gives him sleeping pills and sets up a trap for her alt to fall into. When she arrives at Chord’s house, she shoots and misses by a fraction of an inch. She runs over to Chord’s house, after leaving him

M. Night Shyamalan's film Signs is about a man whose faith is tested by an unforeseen tragedy. To get through this test Graham must keep his eyes open for the signs that God has planted throughout. He must understand that everything that is happening to him ,both the good and the bad, serves a greater purpose that will come to light when he finally is able to see. In the movie these hidden signs that are God’s way of both bringing Graham closer to Him and saving the Hess family.

After picking up Michael from Parchman, Leonie and her kids are on their way back to home. Leonie swallows the entire bag of meth in her car before police officers pull them over and give them a background check. It is also because she is extremely high at that moment, she cannot do anything to stop the officer from pointing a gun at her son, Jojo. She mentions, “And when he (Jojo) starts reaching in his pocket and the officer draws his gun on him, points it at his face... I should scream, but I can’t” (163). This scene demonstrates the dilemma that Leonie faces-- she loves her children, but her dippy addiction on drug overrides her parental instinct. When Leonie chooses drug use over her children, she is damaging her relationship with her kids and traumatizing them. Later, her daughter Kayla tries to wrap Jojo in front of the officers to protect him. The mutual protection of her children further proves her deficiency as a mother. Due to her destructive addiction to drugs, her kids can never trust or rely on her, which also forces her kids to act maturely and independently at their early

scholarship. I feel that chapter four is more important than chapter three because the topic is

On the 14th day, Josie didn’t need gauze anymore and everyone was preparing for her return home. Unfortunately, after one of the nurses gave Josie a shot of methadone, King was forced to watch her daughter experience a cardiac arrest and pass away.

The Sermon on the Mount is a sermon given by Jesus Christ found in the book of Matthew in the Holy Bible. The beginning of this sermon includes a list of blessings called the Beatitudes. Jesus uses these to explain God’s favor towards those who are striving for righteousness. For those who had come to believe and follow Jesus as the son of God, every word that he spoke in the Sermon on the Mount was intended as words of encouragement for Jesus’s disciples and were taken as such. For those who were skeptical, the crowd, that Jesus was truly the son of God, Jesus’s words took on a totally different meaning. The Beatitudes, simple words that promote the humility of man, were explicit words of encouragement for Jesus’s disciples. Yet at the same time, to the crowd listening, the Beatitudes were an implicit invitation to become men of God by believing that this man is God in the flesh, God in spirit, God almighty, God omniscient, God omnipresent, and God omnipotent.

showing that he and all of us exist and that we can be certain about

Cassandra has this feeling that Tiffany doesn’t know how serious and devastating it is to use heroin while she is pregnant. So she decides to

He wants to reveal himself to humanity as the word of God. It revealed the supernatural power of his greatness and love for us and excellent teaching skills that he has to teach with simplicity and understanding. It shows the power he has over evil things and his purity in heart

This was not the first time she had ever left Amanda home alone while she went out on the town. Helene is also into drugs. In fact, all evidence leads back to a man in prison, Cheese Olamon. Cheese is a drug-dealer that Helene had done some work for in the past. Seems $200,000 is missing from one of Helene’s buys she went on for Cheese.

The sermon at the mount is a collection of teachings and sayings that Jesus preaches to people at Galilee. It takes place after Jesus had been baptized by John the Baptist. This is the longest teaching by Jesus in a single preaching. It is found in the New Testament in the book of Matthew. It transverses chapter five to seven of the Gospel of Matthew. The main theme of sermon of the mountain is how people should relate with other people and God. The sermon is preached at a mountain when Jesus saw the crowd and his disciples’ were following him, he sat at a level ground on the mountain and started to preach. The Preaching’s can be divided it four major parts; The Beatitudes, Lord’s Prayer and parables.

contexts of time and place, and he is observable. At the same time and because of his faith or through it, he is or claims to be in touch with another world transcending this. The duality of this position some would say is the greatness and some the very meaning of human life: the heart of its

Many Americans flocked to see Mel Gibson’s movie, “The Passion of the Christ.” On over 2.000 screens across America the viewed the “harrowing depiction of Jesus' last 12 hours in wide-screen vivid color.” (Allen 2004) People viewed images of Jesus being flogged, crucified and left to die. This violence caused some Christians discomfort with theology, and some Jews’ fear that it will “incite violence against them because of its portrayal of Jews’ involvement in Jesus’ death.” (Allen 2004)

Many believers still want God to speak to us through signs so we can have a clearer understanding of what exactly is trying to be said. But to want that is to misunderstand the Bible. According to Tullian Tchividjian, senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, “God’s Word comes to us in two forms: law and gospel. The law is