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In the Heat of the Night EssayFor my essay I have chosen to write some the topic about Tibbs and Gillespie pinch and rateing each other. In the beginning of this story Gillespie thought of Virgil as he would of thought of any other Negro, but soon he institute out he was ill-treat, Virgil was a very gifted tec with dissever of skills. When Tibbs was first taken in to see Gillespie, Gillespie was yelling and screaming at Tibbs for no reason but Virgil did not break down to the molestation and turn up Gillespie wrong by showing him his ID card that proved he was a cop. I think that Virgil earned a little look upon from Gillespie their by showing him that he was calm and mature. As the story unfolded Gillespie precept more and more of Virgil&8217s good qualities. Gillespie saw that Virgil was calm, educated, smart, payed attention to detail, and was answer for his job. Every time that Gillespie would arrest some one Virgil proved them innocent, when Oberst was arrested Vi rgil proved Gillespie wrong by proving to him that Oberst was not the murderer. When Gillespie arrested Sam Wood Virgil also proved him innocent. Even though Gillespie didn&8217t like to be proven wrong by anyone (none less a Negro) he respected Virgil for his great detective work. At one point in the novel Gillespie and Tibbs shake turn over and I think that was the high point of this mutual respect. Virgil didn&8217t respect Gillespie that much in the beginning and most of the middle of this story but in the end Virgil respected Gillespie. I think it was good that Virgil did not respect Gillespie because Gillespie was using Virgil for his scapegoat. At the end of this story Gillespie finally showed everyone that he respected Tibbs by telling every one the truth about the murder investigation, and giving most of the credit to Virgil.