Pulp Fiction: Plot Segmentation

4. “I thought he’d be fine in the end. He was smart. He’d figure out how to paddle a canoe down     to Mexico, how to hop freight trains, how to score a bed at inner-city missions. He figured all of

3. Discuss one scene, which you liked and why you feel it was a good scene.

C: "My father was a military engineer, stationed in the jungles of Singapore. ( Zoom in on Jane’s father) *Janes father standing to attention in military uniform* He gave Jane a toy Chimpanzee as a gift when I was 1.

5. “I’m blest if it don’t look to me like the truth is better and actuly safer than a lie…I’m a-going to chance it; I’ll up and tell the truth this time.”

C. “Friends, have we never been in danger before this? More fearsome, is it now, than when the Cyclops penned us in his cave? What power he had! Did I not keep my nerve, and use my wits to find a way out for us.”

The story of Jonathans encounter with clay is another event that brought tears to my eyes. Clay is one of the students that Johnathan met will

6. Why did the boy practice over and over again what he was going to say to his father in jail? The boy doesn’t want his father sad.

B.Talks about how he was informed of a possible attack on him earlier in the year

d) It takes place right after he gets his dogs and goes on his first coon hunt.

soon find out that Eva worked in his factory, and how she was fired by

Pulp Fiction is a black comedy crime film written and directed Quentin Tarantino (1994). The film’s “narrative follows the unpredictable actions and reflections of two hit men who philosophically meditate out loud about the Bible, loyalty, and McDonald’s hamburgers” (Corrigan, White, 368). The movie goes against the three-act structure of classic films as the story is told out of chronological order making the film so memorable to its viewers. Tarantino’s film begins in a coffee shop and also ends in the same shop. In the beginning of the film, it appears to be a soft, moist, shapeless matter of mass but as the movie progresses the audience can take away much more from the mundane acts they view on screen. The film’s odd narrative

5. On the bus, he describes it to two or three friends saying Miss Narwin hates him; that is all, but it’s more than that.

This serves to the complicating action. With complicating action, action shifts and some obstacles occurs in order to make it more compelling for protagonist to achieve his/her goal. This next scene shifts the action to Vincent’s relationship with his boss’ wife Mia Wallace. We see Butch during his confrontation with Marsellus Wallace at the very beginning of the first part. As he takes the money from Marsellus and agrees to take a dive in his next match, Vincent and Jules enter with a briefcase, dressed as they just came from a pool party. The tension between Vince and Butch pave the way for them to confront in a hostile way, in the second story. The narrative, in this scene, establishes a connection with the upcoming story. In the next scene, Vincent and Mia have dinner at Jack Rabbit Slim’s and participate in a twist contest. Before Mia and Vincent met, Mia snorts cocaine which gives a hint to the audience that the obliged date will be a little rugged which leads to complicating action. Mia overdoses and Vincent takes her Lance’s home where he purchases heroin and races against time to save Mia. At the end of the first story, Vincent saves Mia and they promise each other for keeping this action as a secret. These action scenes are used in the film to strengthen the continuity. Also, the relationship that is constructed between Mia and Vincent , share similarity with the relationship between Butch and Marsellus that will be constructed at the end of the second

B. Julia, the assistant and Angier’s wife, calls Borden and Angier up to the stage to bind her for the trick.

1. I could not find my cup after Brat left the room. He must have stolen it.