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Comparing Monster 'And 12 Angry Men'

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Tanish Kothari
Mrs. Giannisis
English 9 CP
9 February 2018

Unfortunately people cannot always get justice even if they are truly innocent. In the book Monster by Walter Dean Myers a 16 year old black kid named Steve Harmon was charged with killing someone even though he didn't do it and in 12 Angry Men, 12 jurors fight over some unnamed kid that was charged with murdering his own dad, and almost all the jurors seem pretty convinced that he did. "People cannot get justice without the help of others." No matter how you put it, somebody can't always be right because people see things differently and can care less about other people. And this can lead to somebody getting in a lot of trouble, for something they didn't even do. The main …show more content…

These people become the changing point of the stories. In Twelve Angry Men Juror #8 suggested that they talk about it before just saying that the kid was guilty, when all the other jurors voted guilty without even thinking about their decisions. Even when some of the other jurors got mad and started yelling at him, but he stayed calm and tried to work things out. Also, he convinced Juror #9 to change his vote to not guilty, which then changed slowly everybody else's vote. In Monster, Kathy O'Brien, Steve's lawyer tries her best to defend him even though she didn't even really know if he was innocence. “NO. 7: So what'd you vote not guilty for? NO. 8: There were eleven votes for guilty. It's not so easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.” (Lumet 5) Juror #8 is the only one that even tried to find more about the crime and the person, he is the only one that saw him as a kid and made everyone believe him then too. ” When they win, Steve opens his arms to hug her but she stiffens and turns to pick up her papers from the table before them". (Meyers 263) In the case of Monster, attorney O'Brien doesn't seem to believe the innocence of Steve at any time, and nevertheless, gives him the opportunity of a trial where the attorney will do her best to defend him.

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