Juror 8: The Guilt Of Twelve Angry Men

At the beginning of the jury deliberation every single man but one believed that this particular case would result in a unanimous guilty verdict. When the men went around the table to announce their verdicts of guilty or not guilty every man raised their hand in a guilty verdict besides one. Juror eight was the only man who walked into that deliberation room with doubts about whether or not the boy did in fact murder his father. Every man that was apart of the jury had their own reasons as to why they believed with every ounce of their being that the verdict was nothing other than guilty. Along with those men and their particular beliefs as to why the boy was guilty also came a window into the men’s lives. As many do in the world, these men …show more content…
The old man that testified seeing the boy run out of the apartment also claimed that he heard the young boy scream “I am going to kill you,” then the sound of a body hitting the floor. Juror eight had already proved to the other men that this witness was lying about seeing the boy run out of the apartment. Juror eight made the point that the old man had a limp and could not have made it out of his bedroom within the time that he testified to. Juror eight reenacted the scene and timed how long the old man with his limp would take to get up out his bed then door the hall to the door. It took juror eight 45 seconds. This always displayed logos due to the fact that logically through the reenactment the old man could of not made it to the hall to see the boy free the scene in 20 seconds. The old man also testified hearing the boy yell, “I’m going to kill you shortly before hearing the body hit the floor. Juror three is the most passionate in the room when involving this case. The entire film up until the very end wants to see the young boy get the death penalty. Juror 3 explodes with rage against juror 8’s reasons as to why the young boy is in fact innocent and says, “He has to burn, he is slipping right through our fingers”. Juror 8 fires back saying to him that he is a self appointed public avenger and with rage juror three lunges for juror and screams the words, “I’ll kill him!” With the calmest tone of voice someone could have had with man lunging at them in rage, juror eight simply replies with, “You don’t really mean you’ll kill me, do you?” The words shouted by juror 3, “He has to burn, he is slipping right through our fingers” is an example of pathos because he is trying to create fear in the rest of the jurors eyes because he can see that the non guilty votes are continuing to grow. This is also a crucial turning point in the film because juror eight is making logically points