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Character Analysis Of Juror 8 In 'The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street'

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It is hard to stand against a group by yourself because in “12 Angry Men” Juror 8 is getting ganged up on, in “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” Tommy is being called stupid by all the neighbors for having the opinion that he did, also in both of the stories the person who wasn’t going with the group was always the one to call out first. In “12 angry men” juror 8 is the only juror saying that the boy is innocent and everybody else is ganging up on him. Then they start to ask questions like why do you think he's innocent and he says I don’t know and they start to gang up and say “he sat in there for 6 days and he doesn't know” and “You sat right in court and heard the same things I did” (Rose 14). This evidence shows that just because he has his own opinion and doesn’t want to vote guilty because everyone else did, people aren’t respecting his opinion and are basically calling him stupid for his decision. And I feel like more people started to choose innocent because they took into consideration of his idea and realized they could stand up to the rest of the group since they had …show more content…

And then said “Except the people they sent down ahead of them. They looked just like humans. And it wasn’t until the ship landed that—” and then all of the parents say things like “Isn’t that just the craziest thing you ever heard.”(Serling 145) Also “Sally, you better get that boy of yours up to bed. He’s been reading too many comic books or seeing too many movies or something!” (Serling 146). This goes with my thesis statement that it’s hard to stand up to a group because it shows when Tommy wanted to give his idea everybody wanted to shoot him down and called a little boy who was just speaking his idea to the group and they called him crazy without thinking about his idea to see if he could maybe be

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