3a- Jamie Holliday

There are sayings about trusting your gut and that your gut is always right. I wouldn't trust my gut off of a feeling. I would obviously check it out before I do anything drastic. Juror eight displays this in "Twelve Angry Men", when he ,in the very beginning, talks about a feeling that he has that the defendant is not guilty. He then went to check out the evidence and realized that his gut was right. On the other side of that, juror three shows how you can trust your intuitions too much and you can get the wrong idea. All throughout the play, juror three is one of the only ones that never changed his mind. Partially because he just wanted to get the trial over with and that he was using pre-implanted ideas that he has had his life. He trusted his intuitions so much, that he in the end gave way to saying not guilty because he was the odd man out. In the end, though, I believe he still thought that the boy was guilty and just gave way to get it over with.