Brief Summary Of Twelve Angry Men By Reginald Rose

Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose, an 18-year-old is on trial for the murder of his farther. After many pieces of evidence were presented, the three that are weak include the one of a kind knife that the boy had used to kill the father, the saying “I’m going to kill you!” and the woman that seen the scene of the killing without her glasses.

One piece of evidence that proves the boy’s innocence is the unique knife.
The knife was a switchblade that the boy said he got before the crime scene at a shop for two dollars and that it also had fell out of his pocket. Since it fell out of his pocket anyone could have picked it up and used it on his father while the boy was at the movies. Another reason why is that juror eight went to a pawn shop and bought the same identical knife for two dollars proving to the rest of the men that the knife isn’t so unique after all and …show more content…
None of the jurors believed this so juror eight got juror three angry and juror three yelled out angrily “I’m going to kill you!” when juror three said that line juror eight asked if he meant that and juror three said no he didn’t. Juror eight proved that people say things and don’t mean it when they are angry or that you can say something out of emotion and not mean it. The line was also heard from the woman that seen it through the El trains window she said she heard the boy say “I’m going to kill you!” and then stab his father through her window but what’s wrong about this is that the El train is really loud so she couldn’t of heard this happen and she also said she seen the entire crime scene happen through the window of the El train which Juror eight had proved that it couldn’t have been she seen the entire crime scene through one window and in a split second he proved that in order for her to see the entire crime play out the El train would have to be going really