Monday, March 2, 2015
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When you are not civil to others, they will not be willing to listen to you. This is displayed when Juror Ten goes on his rant about 'those people'. He critcizes any and everyone who has ever grown up in the slums, putting them all in the liar category and goes on to bash them openly in front of everyone. The other jurors start to get up and turn their back on him by going to the window, trying to indicate to him that he needs to stop talking because they don't have much respect for his opinion any more. He finally yells, "Well don't you know about them? Listen to me! What are you doing? I'm trying to tell you something!" (Juror Ten page 59 of Act III) Then juror four lets him know, "I've had enough. If you open your mouth again I'm going to split your skull." (Juror Four page 60 Act III) Because juror ten was so rude, not only did the other jurors not want to listen to him anymore, but one actually threatened to hurt him. The tone of his voice and his stereotypical word choice was enough for the other jurors to decide to ignore him all together. He could have gone a much different, nicer, more educated route and that might have produced a much different result. But he was doomed from the start because he choose to be uncivilized.
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Biased opinions do make you look bad in front of other people. When someone talks to you in a sort of racist kind of tone, you instantly think of them as a bad person, making you question any kind of conversation you may have with him/her later. That is exactly what happened to Juror 10. People instantly saw him as a bad person, and instead of arguing with him (which would go nowhere), they turned against him to show that his view of the situation was unreasonable.
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