Juror 8 is the hero of 12 Angry Men, he revisited the situation and pulled out all the details. In act 2 Juror 8 doesn’t seem sure on the boy being guilty. He mentions that it wasn’t enough for him. Juror 8 talks about how the father was found stabbed, and it doesn’t make sense. Also Juror 8 isn’t sure on the woman’s testimony and wants to go over it.
In the second act Juror 8 isn’t sure the boy should be guilty and wants to go into detail. Juror 8 states “How long does it take an elevated train going at top speed to pass a given point?” He notices that the old man said he heard the boy say “I’m going to kill you” and asks how many times someone has said that or heard it. He mentions “We say it everyday. This doesn’t mean that we’re really going to kill someone.”…show more content… Juror 8 says “Then he couldn’t have made the kind of wound that killed his father.” He also talks about how the boy went to reform school for knife fighting. Juror 8 then mentions how the boy went and bought a knife and then kills his father, knowing that people knew he had just bought the knife.
Juror 8 mentions how the boy was smart from eight o’clock to about midnight. Then dumb for a few seconds then smart again. He was dumb to kill someone while an el train was passing through. Then the boy was smart for making the wound look like someone else had killed the father. Juror 8 states “To say that he is guilty you have to toss his intelligence like a pancake.
In act 3 Juror 8 states that there is a reasonable doubt the boy is not guilty. Juror 8 was able to change everyone’s mind. He pulled out every detail he could. This led to more questions and more suspicions. Juror 8 is a hero for pulling out the little details and replaying the incident. He was able to convince the other
