Breaking Bad First Season Summary

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Breaking bad first season first episode story surrounded a chemistry teacher, Walter White, who lives with his pregnant wife and handicapped son. On a normally schooling day, Walter scolded one of his disrespectful students in class, later on that day, the disrespectful student witnessed Walter working a second job at a car wash shop to earn additional income. Walter get public humiliated by the student plus took a picture of him cleaning car tires. After a tired working day, Walter return home and Skyler has organized a surprise birthday party for him without informing him. Among all the guests who came, Walter’s brother-in-law, Hank, an agent who bust drug lab, later on Hank invited Walter to join him on a bust mission. Another day in car …show more content…
First of all, the importance of family, everything Walter did was mainly for his family, he started to manufacture drugs because he realized he only given two years to live, he want to make sure after his death his family doesn’t need to worry about any financial problem, drug dealer is one of the criminal that earn a lot. He even calculated the exact amount he need to earn before he die or retire from the business. Walter currently living with his pregnant wife and handicapped son name Walter White Jr, in first season , whole family of Walter went to shop and some of the kids in the shop making joke of Jr need parent’s help to wear a pants. Walter walked towards them and start a fight with them just to protect his son from being embarrassed. In last episode of first season, Jr was recording video during baby shower party and he turn the camera on Walter. The idea of this video is to show baby Holly when she is twenty years old. Walter take the moment seriously and said “Holly, im very proud of you, I think about you all the time, whenever you go, whatever you do in life, always remember you have a family who love you very very much.” Just a few short sentence but it’s enough to move audience’s heart. Because he know by the time baby holly see this, he probably no longer here anymore. In some way, sin are extremely prevalent in this first season. We can see …show more content…
Krazy 8 and Emilio tie Jesse up to prevent he run away while another side Walter is preparing showing them process of cooking meth. Emilio throw a cigarette and cause a burst fire. Walter mixed chemical to create the smoke for Jesse and himself to escape. Colour are also one of the theme in breaking bad series. It represent emotional of an character. What is colour wheel? A colour wheel is a circle with various of colour to show relationship between primary colour, secondary colour and tertiary colour. When Jesse bought sample to show Krazy 8, he was wearing a red jacket outside, red colour meaning on aggression, fearless and violence. This show his aggressive personality in doing meth business, while he and Krazy 8 on a conversation about drug dealing, Jesse seems to be no fear when facing a fierce dog that Krazy 8 trained. After that, Krazy 8 and Emilio asked Jesse to bring them to the meth cooker, when they arrived, Walter is wearing a green apron, green colour stand for greedy and money, Walter wears nothing but only green apron, when he started drug business because he believe he can earn a lot, in this scene, he also naked means not wearing anything and means nothing to hide. Black colour represent darkness, evil and death,

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