Why Is Juror Number 3 Important In 12 Angry Men
Important Characters in 12 Angry Men
In 12 Angry Men, juror number three is a man of strong opinions, very little patience, and a strong annoyance of the whole trial taking place and the other people involved. To start of the play, juror number three shows his impatience by complaining, “Six days. They should have finished in two. Talk, talk, talk. Did you ever heard so much talk about nothing?” (page 3). Throughout the play, different sides of juror number three come out to be seen by the audience. One side is revealed when he has an outburst about his son, and his feelings about children these days. ““I’ve got a kid. When he was eight years old, he ran away from a fight. I saw him. I was so ashamed, I told him right out, “I’m gonna make a man out of you or I’m gonna bust you up into little pieces trying.” When he was fifteen, he hit me in the face. He’s big, you know. I haven’t seen him in three years. Rotten kid!”” (page 8) This …show more content…
In the beginning of the play, he is the only person that believes the boy on trial could be not guilty. “There were eleven votes for guilty. It's not so easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.” (page 5). This quote from the story shows that juror eight is willing to give the boy’s story a chance and that he deserves a for the jury to at least discuss the trial opposed to them all immediately voting that he is guilty. Throughout the whole play, juror eight tried, not to convince the rest of the jury that he was not guilty, but try to get them to understand that a boy’s life was on the line. He was trying to show them that there was reasonable doubt, by showing the men through demonstrations of what happened (page 20/24) and logical reasoning about simple observations during the trial (page 29). During the whole play, juror number eight brought a theme of
In 12 Angry Men, juror number three is a man of strong opinions, very little patience, and a strong annoyance of the whole trial taking place and the other people involved. To start of the play, juror number three shows his impatience by complaining, “Six days. They should have finished in two. Talk, talk, talk. Did you ever heard so much talk about nothing?” (page 3). Throughout the play, different sides of juror number three come out to be seen by the audience. One side is revealed when he has an outburst about his son, and his feelings about children these days. ““I’ve got a kid. When he was eight years old, he ran away from a fight. I saw him. I was so ashamed, I told him right out, “I’m gonna make a man out of you or I’m gonna bust you up into little pieces trying.” When he was fifteen, he hit me in the face. He’s big, you know. I haven’t seen him in three years. Rotten kid!”” (page 8) This …show more content…
In the beginning of the play, he is the only person that believes the boy on trial could be not guilty. “There were eleven votes for guilty. It's not so easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.” (page 5). This quote from the story shows that juror eight is willing to give the boy’s story a chance and that he deserves a for the jury to at least discuss the trial opposed to them all immediately voting that he is guilty. Throughout the whole play, juror eight tried, not to convince the rest of the jury that he was not guilty, but try to get them to understand that a boy’s life was on the line. He was trying to show them that there was reasonable doubt, by showing the men through demonstrations of what happened (page 20/24) and logical reasoning about simple observations during the trial (page 29). During the whole play, juror number eight brought a theme of