Identifying Character Traits In Twelve Angry Men

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The play Twelve Angry Men demonstrates the significance of identifying character traits in order to better understand a character’s motivations. A character who is unlike me is Juror 10 because he’s is ignorant, he say offensive stuff and assumed things that he don’t know. For example, on page 64 he says this “well for chrissakes look at what we’re dealing with here. You know what there are like!” I don’t display this characteristic because it’s wrong, and it’s being a stereotype. Impolite is the second trait, in the book he yell over people and he don’t really care about anyone’s response. For instance on page 59 “11th Juror- I beg pardon, in discussing- 10th Juror- I beg pardon. What are you so goddamn polite about? ”. I don’t talk over people,

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