Julian Rotter would say that Kim has an external locus of control.
It means that Kim believes that these situations are out of his control and that he cannot do anything to influence these events. He doesn't stop to think that maybe the problem is about him, and not everyone else around him and that he should do something to fix it.
Parallelism is simply when you have two or more things being <em>parallel, </em>or, <em>the same </em>in some aspect. Walt Whitman used parallelism when she said 'The Carpenter singing his as he', and 'The mason singing his as he'. =)
<span>Reactive is the answer you are looking </span>
Idealistic, is the tone of The Notorious jumping Frog of Calaveras County.