Along with a tragic story of the Titanic, film includes a romance between Rose and Jack. This romance began at the moment when Rose tried to commit a suicide. She runs in tears to the front of the ship, claims the railing, and prepares to jump, when Jack comes behind her and starts a conversation. Only after a few minutes, Rose changes her mind and let him pull her back into the ship. That evening their relationship begins with the first phase: individuality of growth stage, in which each person has its own qualities and its own life. The next morning, they meet again, and Rose thanks Jack for saving her. This scene includes verbal and nonverbal communication and shows that Rose is aware of her high social status when she tells him to leave that part of the ship, and snatches his journal with drawings. The conversation overall is a beginning of invitational communication stage; they have a private conversation, get involved in a small argument and she gets impressed by …show more content…
One of them assumes that mindful listening is important in a process of successful communication. There are external and internal obstacles that affect mindful listening and lead to poor communication in general. At the beginning of the film, old Rose was about to start her story by saying “It’s been eighty-four years…” when Brock Lovett interrupted her: “It’s ok, just try to remember anything.” The internal obstacle, prejudgment, got on his way of listening. Instead of paying attention, he guessed what she was about to say, and was wrong. Rose got a little upset: “Do you want to hear this or not, Mr. Lovett?” Mindful listening and engaging in dual perspective also have helped to start a relationship between Rose and Jack, and absence of these qualities have resulted in miscommunication and conflict between Rose and her fiancé, and between Rose and her