Philip Mally 12 Angry Analysis

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If this case had reached the court I feel that Miss Narwin would have won.
Philip Malloy is being extremely disrespectful to his teacher and not respecting her authority over him. Miss Narwin: “Leave!” Pg 73 Avi. Miss Narwin is asking him to leave the room for creating a disturbance and Philip refuses to until he finally leaves. Philip Malloy: “It’s you who’s being disrespectful!” Pg 72 Avi. Philip is rebelling against the teacher and is disrespecting her authority over him. Philip Malloy doesn’t like Miss Narwin and could have been humming to annoy her and trying to escape her class. Philip says “It’s the teacher, Narwin.” Pg 34 Avi. This shows that he really doesn’t like the teacher and would purposely annoy her and make an excuse for it.
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Philip states “Singing “The Star Spangled Banner”.” Pg 51 Avi.Philip says he is singing the national anthem but he was really humming it in class and says he was singing. Philip exclaims “Well, Iike to, you know, sing along. But, see, she kicked me out, for singing it.” Pg 102 Avi Philip is lying saying he was singing the national anthem when he was humming which is disrespectful so Miss Narwin would have won the case. Philip said “Just humming.” Pg 43 Avi. Philip even admits that he is just humming not singing. This is a huge difference in the story and shows Philip lied to his parents to make him seem like the victim and start this whole shenanigan.
Philip admits he doesn’t know the words and doesn’t want to sing.This shows that Philip was lying about singing and was humming and was purposely doing it to annoy Miss Narwin.Philip says “No…” Pg 180 Avi. He says no to singing really quickly and drawn out which shows he is hiding something and doesn’t know the words and is embarrassed about it.Philip exclaims “I don’t know the words.” Pg 212 Avi. This shows that Philip wasn’t really being patriotic and was doing this to annoy Miss Narwin because he doesn’t like

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