Character Summary: In the beginning of the movie, police officer Jim Kurring investigates a disturbance at a woman’s apartment. She is very uncooperative, which leads to Jim’s handcuffing her to sofa. He then finds a dead body in the woman’s closet. After other police officers arrive to send the woman to jail, Jim goes to Claudia’s house because of her neighbors’ report. Jim finds Claudia attractive and stays longer than he is supposed to for coffee. He asks Claudia to dinner later that night, which she accepts. Later that day, Jim responds to a call. When Jim arrives at his location, someone shoots at Jim. While fleeing, Jim loses his gun, which the person shooting at him picks up. After losing his gun, Jim goes on his date with Claudia. They …show more content…
According to Gardiner’s multiple intelligence theory, “people high in interpersonal intelligence are socially skilled, sensitive to others’ moods [and] able to communicate and work effectively with others” (Kuther, 2017). Jim is a police officer, so his job requires him to interact with people of diverse backgrounds. In the beginning of the film, he has to interact with a verbally hostile woman. When Jim can tell that the woman is trying to interfere with his searching of her apartment, he handcuffs her to her sofa and then finds a dead body in her closet. He then calls his police station, which has its other officers that he interacts with daily. Later that night, he goes on his date with Claudia and the two have a very good conversation, and he is sensitive to her feelings of unworthiness; he tells her that he does not care about her issues because everyone has their issues. Jim displays intrapersonal intelligence, “ability to understand [his] own emotions and experience[s]” (Kuther, 2017). Jim knows how feels about Claudia and is not keen are letting anything ruin his chances of a relationship with her. He knew how he felt about her the moment he meant her and is ready to love her for who she is. Because of Jim’s high interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence, the film implies that Claudia will continue her relationship with Jim. While Jim mainly experiences
Despite their desperate needs to find their missing daughter, Jim refuses to let indigenous tracker, Albert to assist him in his search to find Emily. Albert is a police constable within the local police, yet Jim is blind and is unable to see him as equal to the other policemen because of the colour of his skin. Jim is assured by the police sergeant that “Albert’s the best tracker around.” This suggests that the local police do not see Albert differently to themselves, that they value him equally and use his skills to help them in their means to help their people. As the film is set in...
Jim’s character also seemed to bring out caring and empathetic side of Josie as she not only finds humility in being a field reporter, but also with the result of her wish putting all eyes on her.
has grown quite attached to Jim, and is beginning to realize that Jim is a
She tells about Jim's wife, Genevieve, who she does not like, and doesn't think she is well suited for Jim. They start talking about Antonia, who they both knew and admired, and wondering why something wasn't written about her. Months later, Jim brings her what he had written and She writes the narrative as Jim had written it.
During the Jims childhood years, he was adopted along with his two other siblings by a farmer and his wife, but they were abused by the farmer and his wife. One of the Jims sibling abuse went into the extent of its death. Jim vowed to get justice into his own hand and kill the three people, which he things had the responsibility to prevent their abuse whenever they were children. A couple days before the bed and breakfast, Jim kills the wife of the farmer and the farmer died in a car accident after attempting to escape the police. Jim also killed one of the guests of the home, Mrs. Boyle, who was responsible for putting Jim and his siblings into the hands of the abusive farmer and his wife. The third and the last person that Jim was going to kill was Molly, who was the co-owner of the bed and breakfast, Jim thought that Molly was a Jims brother, teacher when they were just a child and that she could have been able to prevent the abuse that Jim and his siblings went through but Molly is actually that the sister of the teacher that Jims brother had. A detective has saved Molly just when she is about to be
“I was just making dinner, then I heard a loud bang from her room and now she's dead,” Jamie weeps. The lady insures Jamie that the police are on their way with a child murderous detective, James Gordon. Jamie quickly ends the call with the police and dials Mrs. Smith’s cell number. She cries and sobs as the phone rings.
Intrapersonal intelligence is being aware of occurrences within your own mind and body. John exhibits this awareness when he begins to overcome his schizophrenia, by realizing the appreciations aren’t real. “Marcy can’t be real, she never gets old.” John continues to demonstrate strong intrapersonal intelligence when he regains a normal life, despite his schizophrenia. “I still see things that are not here, I just choose not to acknowledge them.” These demonstrations of control over his mind and actions display John’s intrapersonal intelligence as he is fully aware of what is happening within his
Detective Jones had so much sympathy for the girl’s brother, Aaron. He raised Kennedy by himself, since his mother was never around. Their mother and father were both drug addicts and sadly died two years ago. Aaron and Kennedy were devastated, but Aaron knew it would happen sooner or later. “Is there a Detective Jones here?” asked a young barista. Jones's head shot up and
“Shit,” Tom muttered. By asking Dennis to keep his secret, he had never meant to cause him any undue conflict or distress. But it appeared his desperation had precipitated both, and in doing so, he had compromised the young officer’s integrity. It was just another thing to add to his growing discomfort. By not socializing, it was easy to keep his emotions pushed to the deepest recesses of his soul. But after only a few minutes with Doug, he found his despair returning, and he wished he could block out the world and all its painful vibrations forever.
He is on a set path, and is determined to follow the plan that he has set for his life. Jim works and strives for success and even tries to help Laura come out of her shell and coupe with her disability by building her up and leaving no room for excuses. He knows the quality in life and tries to portray that meaning to both Laura and Tom. Tom describes Jim as “the most realistic character, being an emissary from that world of reality that we were set apart from (Johnson 1227)”. In the play Tom is very nonrealistic by living his irresponsible lifestyle. He spends his days dreaming of adventure and scribbling poems on shoe boxes. He likes to drink and party while avoiding paying bills so that he can use the money to escape the torture of everyday life. Jim thinks of his family as burden and is a very selfish
He is a simple and ordinary person and seemed out of place with the other characters. Jim was presented as the long waited gentlemen caller coming to sweep Laura away. He is the only one who gets inside Laura’s secret world. He remembers Laura from high school, because he gave her the nickname “Blue Roses.” He did not understand her when she said she had Pleurisies. Jim tried to escape his feelings for Laura, because he was too busy playing high school hero and he was hiding his own emotions.
Officer Ryan noticed that Christine was performing fellatio on Cameron while operating the vehicle and asked both of the Thayers to exit the car. As Christine drunkenly accuses Officer Ryan of racism, the charges heighten for both Christine and Cameron. Christine notices the racism that Officer Ryan has for Cameron and herself and blatantly says, “This is what it’s all about, isn’t it? You thought you saw a white woman blowing a black man and that drove your little cracker ass crazy” (Haggis). Cameron is then forced to watch Officer Ryan molest his wife in the form of a “pat-down” to demonstrate the power that he holds over the couple. Cameron became the subject of stereotyping from Officer Ryan when he noticed the color of his skin, even though the couple seemed to be harmless. Officer Ryan uses his police power to make Cameron feel weak by touching his wife in such a provocative way, yet Cameron cannot do anything to prevent it. As an object of racial stereotyping, Cameron experiences insecurity in his own skin and feels like he has been degraded to less of a person. As the night continues, stereotyping lingers as the Thayers return home after the brutal traffic
He attempts to begin up a gang of boys to rob and murder human beings. He breaks up a sunday college picnic who he stated have been spaniards and a-rabs who had "turned the entirety into an infant sunday college, just out of spite" (10) by means of enchantment. Tom also has huck scouse borrow from aunt sally for jim. He says "it is [Jim's] proper; and so, as long as [they] become representing a prisoner, [they] had an excellent proper to steal some thing in this region [they] had the least use for, to get [themselves] out of prison" (183). He notion up a complicated plan to set jim free when he knew desirable and nicely that jim become already a unfastened guy. He's shot inside the leg inside the strive and when he recovers he placed "his bullet around his neck on a watchguard for an eye fixed, and is always seeing what time it's miles."
Jim, though not as noticeably withdrawn from reality as the others, can also be found retreating by his undying hope that things have to get better. His zeal to succeed, though very different in nature from the others' attitudes, is nevertheless an escape mechanism that shields him from the blandness of his
is as caring as he is. Huck's realization allows him to see that Jim is no