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Juror's Self-Image In Twelve Angry Men

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In the movie Twelve Angry Men, the characters in the movie struggled with getting along with each other. As they talked about the case more and more the more the men got angry at each other. While the jurors argue, the characters and audience are forced to evaluate their own self-image through observing the beliefs, priorities, and the core values of the jurors. During the discussion of the case about the boy killing his father, the jury at the beginning didn’t focus on the other men’s beliefs. When they were first asked about if the boy was guilty or not, all but one said that he was guilty. When the man said that he was not guilty the other gentlemen barely let him talk about his belief about the boy. As time went on while they were trying to make a decision more and …show more content…

Juror number 12 was so worried about missing the baseball game that he got tickets for he was just agreeing with everyone else and not really putting in his actual opinion. When the discussion started to come to a close juror number 12 switched from saying the boy was guilty to not guilty. When asked why he didn’t think he the boy was guilty he couldn’t give an answer. He was so messed up with his priorities that it started to rain, and he knew the game was canceled but was still worried about missing it. When asked why he thought the boy was guilty juror number 5 passed to talk about why he thought that way. As the discussion went on he kept on switching to guilty to not guiltily because he couldn’t make up his mind. He was a business man and wanted to talk about that. At the end some had their priorities right, but some didn’t care that this was a boys life they were dealing with and thought of different things on their minds. In The Truman Show, no one had their priorities straight. All they were worried about was Truman’s life and not

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