4a- Jamie Holliday

Details are what make a story or event tick. Without them, how are we suppose to fit the pieces of a crime, the this case, together. In the play "Twelve Angry Men", juror eight goes back to talking about the lady that supposedly witnessed the murder. They had already talked about how she could have seen it and at what time she saw it happen. What juror eight points out is that during the trial, the lady had bifocals on. Bifocals are really thick glasses that show that a person wearing them has a great deal of trouble seeing. Knowing this background information, juror eight persuades the other jurors to think that most people don't put their glasses on just to see out the window or to get up in the middle of the night. So, juror eight assumes that she was not wearing her glasses when she supposedly saw the murder happening. Without juror eight bringing the detail up, the jurors would still think she is a key eye witness and that might have put the boy in a position to be guilty.