Twelve Angry Men Anyalsis

Twelve Angry Men Anyalsis

Juror number eight is the most effective critical thinker. He is not worried about what time he gets out of the courthouse and he is focused on the task at hand. He starts out as the only one with a not guilty verdict and he works on little details that involved thinking to prove that they may be mistaken. For example, the knife used in the murder was supposed to be one of a kind but after court the day before he went to a pawn shop in the kid’s neighborhood and bought the same exact knife for six dollars which was a turning point in the case. Juror number eight has people yelling and cursing at him over it but he doesn’t want to send the kid to the death chair if he isn’t one hundred percent sure of his verdict. Many of the other jurors just wanted to get out and were not worried that they sent the 18 year old kid to the death chair. The juror proves his point and ends up getting the jury to agree to a non guilty verdict after lots of deliberation between them. The least effective critical thinker from 12 angry men would have to be juror number three. He is so loud and thinks he is right when he doesn’t want to look from the other side of the fence. He doesn’t want to believe or even listen to the points that the jurors question the correctness of. He believes the defendant is guilty and doesn’t want to look deep into it. He calls the other idiots and fools because they had questions about the testimonies of the witnesses. He just doesn’t understand or even care that he is going to send a man to death on his assumptions and won’t hear anyone completely out. He made rude comments at first about the one man who voted not guilty holding them up when in the end he held them up by keeping on saying the man was guilty until he finally broke down and said not guilty. Juror number seven had a barrier to his thinking. He wanted to get out as fast as he could because he had...

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