TWELVE ANGRY MEN: MORE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS – Flashcards
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What instructions does the judge give to the jurors?
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To separate facts from fancy, to deliberate honestly and thoughtfully
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What is the result of the first vote?
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11-1 in favor of guilty
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Which Juror is anxious to leave?
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Juror #7, the slick salesman who wants to make his baseball game
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Which juror is least confident of his vote?
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Juror #2, only does it to go with the flow
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Who votes not guilty?
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Juror #8, he wants to talk it out before sending a teen to the electric chair
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Why is Juror #3 angry towards all kids?
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He has problems with his son, where he taught him to be tough but then he ran away.
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What does Juror #10 reveal about himself when he says "I lived among 'em all my life."
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He shows how he is racist, bias and prejudice and that is mainly fueling his verdict.
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What comments do Four and Ten make about the defendant? Why is five offended?
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They describe people who grow up from slums as trash and menaces to society. Five is offended since he is successful working as a nurse and grew up from a slum.
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Why does Juror 8 have a funny feeling about the trial?
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He believes that everyone is too positive that the boy is guilty and that the lawyer didn't defend the boy to the best of his ability.
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Why is the 'knife theory' invalidated?
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Juror 8 goes out and buys the exact same knife which invalidates the testimony of the shopkeeper that the knife used to kill the father was one of a kind.
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What proposition does Juror 8 make on page 26?
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The Jury will make another vote and if everyone still votes guilty, they were bring a guilty vote in to the judge.
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What is the result and who changes their vote in the second vote?
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10-2, in favor of guilty. Juror 9 changes his vote. He changes it since he wants the jurors to talk out the case a little more. (Juror 9 = Older Man)
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What flaw did Juror 8 find in the older mans testimony, why does 9 also think this mans testimony isn't valid?
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Juror 8 says how it would've been impossible to hear the boy say "I'm going to kill you!" if the roaring el train was passing at the same time. Juror 9 thinks that the older man just wants attention
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How does Juror 8 disprove the old mans testimony of hearing and seeing the boy run down the stairs?
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Since the man was older, it would've been impossible for him to reach the door in just 15 seconds.
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What was the dramatic climax at the end of act 1?
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Juror 3 and 8 get in a fight, and 3 screams "I'l l kill him" and 8 says, "You don't really mean you'll kill me, do you?"
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What point does Eight make by questioning number 4 on the movies?
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We all sometimes can forget small details about our lives.
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What does Juror 3 do to 8 which makes all of the other Jurors cry, "Look out!"
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He mimics the stabbing and is only one inch away from 8's chest.
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Why is Juror 5 convinced that the boy didn't stab his father?
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The way the switchblade was supposedly stabbed is not the way used in the slum, not over hand and down but rather sideways and underhand.
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What are the results of the third vote after 5 brings up the point that the knife was not stabbed in the right direction?
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9-3 in favor of not guilty
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What is four's most convincing evidence that the boy is guilty?
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The testimony that the women across the street saw the boy murder his father.
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What evidence does Juror 9 bring up which questions the testimony of the women?
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She had marks which had to be created by eye glasses, the women was in bed at the time of the killing and most likely was not wearing her eye glasses.
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Why does Juror 4 change his verdict?
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He wore glasses and knew she wouldn't have been accurately testifying claiming she saw the murder through a passing el train.
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What is the dramatic climax of the play?
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When Juror 3 is standing alone and breaks down and tears the picture of his son in his wallet and changes his verdict to non-guilty. He realizes finally that what happened with his own son doesn't make all kids guilty.
