Twelve Angry Men is an incredibly popular play made by Reginald Rose.

It has been done

many times and even made into a movie. This play is about 12 men whose names you will never

know deciding the fate of an 18 year old boy accused of murdering his father. This play starts off with

the 12 jurors taking a starting vote on the innocence of the kid and starts with an 11 to 1 vote in favor

of guilty the only one who votes not guilty is the one known as juror 8. When the book ends the

outcome turns out to a verdict of not guilty. The question that needs to be answered now is how juror

8 managed to do this. The answer is juror 8 was able to do this because he was correct in his

reasoning of the evidence and his implementation of the evidence.

Juror 8 was effective at persuading everyone because he was correct. When he was trying to

persuade everyone there was a moment when a large amount of people joined his side at once ,then

a moment later the sides turned because ,juror 4 said things that brought up a reasonable argument

that turned most of the jurors against juror 8. When juror 10 started on his racist rant everyone got

mad at him when he decided to use persuasion to shame the people who sided with juror 8 everyone

got mad at him and juror 4 even threatened him saying”If you open your mouth again i'm going to split

your skull”. When people like that are deciding the fate of another human It is very difficult to

persuade them without bombarding them with logic and facts. Using persuasion alone would have

done nothing and would have resulted in the death of the kid.

There are also many who believe that he was able to persuade everyone largely and mainly do

to

the fact that he is persuasive. The opposition believes 8 is persuasive because he picks and choses

evidence and that if he only used evidence no one would care enough to listen. ​This shows that juror

8 would have needed to use a large amount of persuasion​. They believe that if juror 8 had not used

persuasion this story would have been ended in the first 20 pages.

It is true that if juror 8 was only able to convince everyone to his side because he managed to

get
everyone to care in the first place. But it must also be stated that in the beginning juror 4 said

this”look! What is there about this case that makes you think the boy is innocent?” ​If he had not said

that no one would have cared also there is the fact that all of the men wanted to leave quickly and

wanted to end it and go home​. In order to do this they would do anything to make it go quicker even

listen to juror 8. ​As the opposition also said he did pick and chose evidence, but many do this in their

day to day life and often forget evidence there is also the fact that any of the other jurors could have

also stated any missed evidence if there was any.

It has been proven in my essay several times that juror 8 used a larger amount of evidence

and the

fact that he was correct rather than persuasion as it would have been necessary to convince many of

them. In order to convince jurors 4,3,and 10 they would need to be bombarded with evidence from

juror 8’s point of view. To recapitulate it would have been necessary to prove his evidence many

times rather than foolishly try to persuade them.

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PROBLEM Inquiry Question​: Is the eighth juror effective primarily because he is ​correct
FORMULATION:
(Not Scored) or primarily because he is ​persuasive​?
Learning Goals 4.0 3.0 2.0 1.0 0.0
RESEARCH: I can investigate
Collects information and
outside sources I can classify With help, I can Even with help, I
data necessary to solve I can identify
the problem as formulated, for relevant textual evidence identify textual cannot identify
textual evidence
drawing evidence from textual evidence as support for evidence as textual evidence
informational texts, as support for
to support claims claims and support for my as support for
conducting an my claim.
counterclaims, counterclaims. claim. my claim.
investigation, or generating
data. and rebuttals.

I can accurately
I can accurately
analyze and use Even with help, I
INTERPRETATION: analyze and use I can use With help, I can
relevant and cannot use
Synthesizes multiple relevant and relevant direct use relevant
sufficient direct relevant direct
sources of data to support sufficient direct evidence to direct evidence
a claim, solve a problem, and inferential evidence to
evidence to answer my to answer my
or answer a question. evidence to answer my
answer my question. question.
answer my question.
question.
question.

I can introduce
and establish
clear I can introduce
relationships and order ideas
I can introduce Even with help, I
among ideas and information With help, I can
COMMUNICATION: and groups cannot introduce
and information within and introduce and
Incorporates ideas and ideas and and groups
supporting evidence within and across groups ideas
information ideas and
purposefully using across paragraphs and and information
structures that through a basic information
paragraphs and use transitions in through a basic
demonstrate the line of use of paragraph through a basic
use transitions in a way that allows use of paragraph
reasoning. structure and use of paragraph
a way that the audience to structure.
transitions. structure.
clarifies the follow the
reasoning and argument.
logic of the
argument.

I can submit a
I can submit a
PRECISION: final product that
final product that I can submit a
Assures that the final meets or With help, I can
product meets all meets all ELA final product that
exceeds all ELA submit a final Even with help, I
discipline-specific standards for attempts1 all ELA
standards for product that cannot submit a
standards for language, language, standards for
terms, expressions, rules, language, attempts ELA final product.
academic language and
terminology, and academic standards.
conventions. vocabulary, and conventions.
vocabulary, and
conventions.
conventions.

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