Seventy Iv Seconds To Judgement Essay

The play “Seventy IV Seconds to judgement” is a hair raising play that is both powerful and moving. The story opens up with six jurors’, they have been discussing a case that has been deadlocked for over a week. The crime was committed by two individuals, a young black man, and a white man. The white man is a teacher, and the young black man is a good student of his. One day they’re in class and someone’s phone rings. Out of all the people in the class, the teacher picks on Brandon, the only black man in the classroom. Brandon and the teacher have an altercation and it leads to Brandon being suspended, weeks before his graduation. After school, he tells his mom that he wants to go back and ask for a second chance. He goes back to school, but …show more content…
The jury was made up of three white people, and three black people. The N-word is used by both parties, and when it is used, you feel it in your heart. The word is powerful and it propels the play into dramatic scenes that make it memorable. Race was a vital lesson the main character had to learn. He wasn’t fully aware of how his skin color alone could trigger others to treat him unfairly, and in his case, unjustly. Brandon was a smart man, but he was still young and naïve, he let his emotions get the best of him. I have a friend similar to Brandon, they even share the same name. We grew up together, and as we grew up, I would listen to the mean comments people would say about him. Brandon was just like me, goofy, smart, and athletic, but most of all nice. People would judge him based on the color of his skin, and not based on who he was. This type of treatment is indistinguishable from the type of treatment Brandon received in the play. The teacher assumed that Brandon was dangerous and based on my experience’s, the teachers’ assumption on Brandon’s behavior were solely derived on the color of his