4A

Details are something important and should be taken into consideration. In Twelve Angry Men, Juror 8 showed why the attention to detail is so important. Without his careful consideration several important facts would have been overlooked. He saved a possibly innocent man from death by taking a second look. "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" (Rose 15). Juror 8 did not let prejudice get in the way of the truth. He presented the facts to the other jurors even when they didn't want to hear it. He was able to tear apart the prosecution's witnesses and figure out the most probable timeline of events. As seen in a later section of the play, "And maybe he didn't lie. Maybe he did lose the knife and maybe he did go to the movies. Maybe the reason the cashier didn't see him was because he sneaked into the movies, and maybe he was ashamed to say so. Is there anybody here who didn't sneak into the movies once or twice when they were young" (Rose 24). By making it personal, Juror 8 made the others think twice before sending the defendant off to die.