finding your perpose

In this film you do not get a lot of information about Travis past from him. In the opening scene the viewer finds out that he has some education and he was a marine that was Honorable discharged. In this opening scene is very important because the guy that was interviewing him did not care for Travis at first. It was not until he find out that Travis was a marine did he "warm" up to him. The viewer kind of gets the feeling that he might not had got the job other wise. His military back round is mention in later scenes which tells the viewer the importance of it. He also tells the viewer that he has sleeping problems. The last peace of information that Travis divulges about himself is that he is lonely. He tells the viewer this twice. The first time he tells the viewer this is when he gives the record to Betsy. In this scene he gives her the record she does not want to take it at first but he tells her what else do I have to spend his money on. the second time is when he is helping Iris.
Even though Travis does not tell us a lot about his self verbally he tells us a ton non verbally. When you are first introduced to him you find out he is a former marine that can't sleep. With this information you get the feeling that he seen bad things when he was in listed. I started to take this view because he did not care were he worked and he rely did not socialize with his coworkers. The viewer also get the sense that his life is missing something. it is not until he meets Betsy that he starts to get his life in order. In the scene when he finally gets the nerve to talk to her you find out that he does have the ability to be around other people up until then he never real communicates with anyone. After he starts "dating" Betsy you get that feeling that his life is back in order because he starts to get organised. In the scene were he takes Betsy to the dirty movie the viewer can tell that he is warped because he does not see a problem with taking her their. After this they "break up" and he starts to revert to his old ways.
The viewer is first introduced to iris the hooker when Travis almost hits her at first you think nothing of it, but when she is in the car trying to escape you start to see the importance of her character. In the scene were Iris is trying to escape and Matt takes her back and give Travis the money you find out a little bit about his personality. He lets the money sit on his set of the cab until his shift is over this tells the viewer that he regents that he did not help her and that's when his life has a purpose again to help her. This is when the viewer starts to see the importance of his military career.He begins to train and gather the weapons he will need for his new war. When he goes back to his military ways he use his street close as his new "uniform." It is not until he saves Iris that you can tell his life is at peace.