In Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose and Sherman Sergel, Juror Number Five starts to believe that The Kid is innocent because both him and The Kid grew up in a slum and he has had the same experiences as him, which have convinced his beliefs. In Act One, when the jurors are talking badly about slums, Juror Five chimes in and says, “I've lived in a slum all my life … There is something personal!” (Rose and Sergel 21). Juror Five starts to feel empathy for The Kid because he has shared similar experiences to him. The jurors are talking bad about slums and this causes Five to become offended. He believes that the other jurors don’t know what it is like to grow up in a slum and that they don’t understand The Kid’s perspective like he can. Juror
