William Davis Essays (1473 words) - Fiction, Literature,

William Davis Professor Caroline Champman English 121 6 September 2015 Twelve Angry Men In the "Twelve Angry Men" (directed by Sidney Lumet and produced by Henry Fonda), you will see that to obtain justice you must make a choice. This story takes place in New York City where an eighteen year old boy is on trial for stabbing his father and killing him. The jury leaves it up to the twelve jurors to decide the fate of this boy. As soon as they start all of them immediately decide his guilty. Lucky enough there's one man who renders this boy not guilty because he thinks they should all take it seriously and spend some time thinking about the loads of evidence before them. Once juror 8 said that everyone became so annoyed, it all went out of control but soon enough they all sat down and discussed it. The jury foreman makes the jurors tell their side of the story as to why the boy should be guilty or not guilty. Everyone goes around and give their statements. Juror eight tells his side, although it still isn't enough. This then goes on for hours compelling them to change their answers. Evidence is brought into the room because juror eight recalled about the weapon the 18 year old boy stabbed with. The weapon was a switchblade, a switchblade the juror 8 has an identical copy of. Once that blade is shown the jurors freak out. They continue talking about the significance of the blade. In later events the jurors just want to quit talking and go home but juror eight decides that before they all go they should give a secret ballot saying guilty or not guilty and if it turns up that someone new says not guilty then they continue. Crazy as it is juror 9 is the one who continues this discussion because of all that's said by juror 8. Juror 3 gets very angry at the continuation. Juror 5's vote changes when juror 8 talks about an elderly man who hears the boy yell " I'm going to kill you", when the old man testified he said he couldn't hear clearly what was being said because of a passing train. So he changes his vote. Soon enough juror 11 questions whether the young man left the scene then come back in 3hours to clear off the fingerprints. Juror 11 joins juror's 8, 9, and, 5. The old man is brought up a gain because he made a second claim about the young man running to the door in fifteen seconds. Not enough evidence is really proven upon this fact so juror eight says it's impossible and juror 3 gets upset and says " I'll kill him", meaning he would kill the boy because he doesn't really cares if he dies at all. Juror 2 and 6 also decide not guilty. By doing that they are at a tie of 6-6. Suddenly juror 7 isn't happy because a rainstorm happens and those baseball tickets of his are out of use. Juror 4 argues that he doesn't believe the boy's alibi. The alibi was the on the night of the murder he went to a movie with his friends. Juror 4 doesn't believe the boy even remembers the movie. Juror 8 tells him that he must have been under emotional stress. Later Juror 8 asks juror 4 about what he remembers, which proves his point later. Juror 2 questions how a 5'7" person can stab down a 6'2" person. Juror's 3 and 8 experiment on it and find it's possible. Juror 5 shows up and tells them about his experience with switchblade knifes and shows them how the switchblade is properly used which makes a 5'7" person killing a 6'2" person possible. Juror 7 quickly decides to vote not guilty just because he wants this discussion to end but jurors 3 and 11 push him to really think about his decision so that it's not just on rational thinking. Juror 7 makes up his mind and votes not guilty. Two more jurors decide not guilty only leaving three people left. The two jurors were 12 and 1. Juror 10 gets fierce and tells his reasons. The rest