Jury System In Reginald Rose's '12 Angry Men'

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12 Angry Men - Vanessa Govea

Would you enjoy going to jail for a crime you did not commit? The author for 12 angry men, Reginald Rose, had a purpose for writing this play. His purpose for 12 angry men was to show how the jury system can be effective and ineffective with their flaws. “... it’s so not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first”. ( Rose 5 ) Juror number eight is showing the effectiveness by not going with what all the others have decided but instead wants to talk about the case. Number eight is the good about the jury system and how it's necessary to go over the cases, no matter what, even if they were talking about it in court. However , Throughout the play during juror number three