What claim does Juror 8 make when he pieces the two witness testimonies together? One of these pieces of evidence is
the knife used to commit the murder
, which many of the jurors believe to be unique. However, to prove the inaccuracy of this, Juror 8 reveals that he bought a similar knife at a junk shop near the boy’s house.
What did Juror 8 prove?
One of these pieces of evidence is
the knife used to commit the murder
, which many of the jurors believe to be unique. However, to prove the inaccuracy of this, Juror 8 reveals that he bought a similar knife at a junk shop near the boy’s house.
What proposition does Juror 8 make to his fellow jurors?
What proposition does Juror 8 make at the end of Act 1?
How does the 8th juror cast doubt on the knife evidence?
How is 8th juror represented as the hero of the play?
By the end of the movie, Juror #8 has proven himself to be a true hero for
standing by his principles and having the courage and skill to put them to work
. He eventually gets the jury to find the defendant Not Guilty, and in the process, he avoids sending an innocent 18 year-old kid to jail.
How does Juror #8 engage in the fallacy of appeal to pity?
In juror eight’s opinion,
the boy was too young to kill his father
. This is an appeal to pity fallacy because the boy’s age and miserable life have nothing to do with his conviction.
How does Juror 8 persuade the jurors?
Juror 8 sets the scene by
telling the other jurors that while he emphatically “doesn’t disagree” with them, he is “not sure” the boy is guilty
. When someone tells you you’re “wrong,” they threaten your authority. By saying he is “not sure,” Juror 8 weakens his own authority.
How does Juror 8 move the plot along?
Juror #8 takes another chunk out of the case by
physically showing how one of the key witnesses (an old man) could not have possibly moved fast enough to see the defendant running from the murder scene
. While he argues, more and more jurors come around to his way of looking at the case.
What point does juror Eight seem to be making about the El train testimony?
What is the point that juror eight makes about a passing elevated train? Eight makes the point that
it would have been too loud to hear someone yell while the El train was passing
.
What does this episode reveal about eight?
What does this episode reveal about EIGHT?
He does his research and thinks things through
. What proposition does EIGHT make his fellow jurors? They will have a secret ballot vote, he won’t vote, and if everybody votes “guilty” he will change his vote.
What does eight say bothered him about the boy’s trial?
What does EIGHT say bothered him about the boy’s trial?
He doesn’t think the defendant’s attorney did a good job or defending the kid.
Why does the evidence of the knife not convince Juror 8?
What happens to make the “knife theory” invalid? Juror 8 revealed that
he had the same “one of a kind knife” that the defendant bought the night of the murder
(which also ended up being the murder weapon or like the murder weapon).
Which juror is most responsible for casting doubt on the woman’s testimony?
Which juror is most responsible for casting doubt on the woman’s testimony? How is this ironic?
Juror Six
is the most responsible, as he pointed out the woman needed to put on her glasses to see the murder.
What does Juror 8 say about truth and prejudice does the jury have reasonable doubt?
Juror #8: It’s always difficult to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And wherever you run into it,
prejudice always obscures the truth
. I don’t really know what the truth is. I don’t suppose anybody will ever really know.
What was Juror #8 name?
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Juror No. Character Actor
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7 A salesman and baseball fanatic; unconcerned with the trial, he is impatient, rude, and wise-cracking. Tony Danza
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8 Davis; an architect who has two children. He is the only juror to originally vote not guilty, and repeatedly questions the evidence of the case.
Jack Lemmon
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Is juror number 8 the protagonist?
What are logical fallacies in an argument?
Who created logical fallacies?
Is hasty generalization a fallacy of syllogism?
This argument resembles a fallacy known as a HASTY GENERALIZATION
. An argument of the syllogistic form in which there occur four or more terms. In a standard categorical syllogism there are ONLY THREE TERMS: a subject, a predicate, and a middle term.
What comments does juror Eight make that seem to settle the argument about doubt?
Who was the first juror to join the 8th juror without guilty vote?
Juror #9
, an elderly man, was the first to change his vote to “not guilty” in support of Juror #8. What was his reason for doing so? He felt that Juror #8 deserved to be heard.
What does Juror 8 say about the El train testimony?
Why does Juror Eight snatch away the paper on which three is playing tic tac toe?
Jurors Three and Twelve start to play a game of tic-tac-toe to pass the time, but Juror Eight angrily snatches the piece of paper away, saying that
jury deliberations are not a game
. Pressured by Juror Eight, the jury agrees that it would take about ten seconds for the train to pass by the apartment.
Why is Juror 4 so convinced that the woman’s testimony is so persuasive?
Why is FOUR convinced the woman’s testimony is so persuasive?
The woman remembers insignificant details
. Juror number four already believes the defendant is guilty.
How does the discussion about the train call the old man’s testimony into question?
What does the discussion about the el train call into question about the old man’s testimony?
The train makes so much noise it would not have been possible for the old man to hear the boy shout at his father “I’m going to kill you.”
What does three do to eight in the beginning of Act 3 that causes the others to cry look out?
How might the room the jurors have to talk in and the weather effect their conversation and the way they feel about the case?
how might the room the jurors have to talk in and the weather affect their conversation in the way they feel about the case?
they made me angry and hot-headed because it is hot in the room so it is uncomfortable.
You just studied 58 terms!
What proposition does eight make to his fellow jurors what is the outcome?
What does Juror #8 say that makes Juror #3 so angry?
Who is the last juror to be convinced to change his vote Why do you think he did change his vote?
Juror 3
was the last to change his vote. His stubbornness to change his decision from guilty to not guilty appears early in the play.
Why does Juror 8 hesitate to vote guilty on the first vote?
What point is Juror 8 trying to make by showing them a knife that looks like the knife from evidence?
Juror 8 insists that the knife identified as the murder weapon be brought to the jury room because he wants to show that:
it’s an unusual knife; the defendant didn’t buy it;it isn’t the murder weapon; it in not as unusual as the witness testified
.
What was Juror #3 doing that made Juror #8 angry causing him to exclaim This isn’t a game?
What was Juror#3 doing that made Juror#8 angry, causing him to exclaim, “this isn’t a game!”? He was
playing tic-tac-toe
. What fact finally convinces the remaining jurors to vote “not guilty”? The fact that the eyewitness wore glasses and would not have had time to put them on to see the murder clearly.
How does Juror 8 persuade the jurors?
Juror 8 sets the scene by
telling the other jurors that while he emphatically “doesn’t disagree” with them, he is “not sure” the boy is guilty
. When someone tells you you’re “wrong,” they threaten your authority. By saying he is “not sure,” Juror 8 weakens his own authority.
How does Juror 8 move the plot along?
Juror #8 takes another chunk out of the case by
physically showing how one of the key witnesses (an old man) could not have possibly moved fast enough to see the defendant running from the murder scene
. While he argues, more and more jurors come around to his way of looking at the case.
