6A

One determined and skilled individual can wield a lot of influence. Juror eight is the perfect example of this. At the beginning of the play, he was the only person who voted guilty. In the end, he was able to persuade all the other judges to change their votes due to possible doubt. Not only was he persistent in his claim but he also used skills such as listening and remembering. He remembered almost every piece of evidence from the trial and then further analyzed that information with prior knowledge from his experiences. He displayed his listening skills in Act II. "Let me go! I'll kill him! I'll kill him!" (Juror Three page 43) "You don't really mean you'll kill me, do you?" (Juror Eight page 43). Juror eight was paying such close attention to what the other juror was saying and he caught him when he contradicted himself. When the other jurors understood what had happened, it made it harder for them to side with someone who didn't seem to know what he was talking about.