12 Angry Man Essay

12 Angry Men
The setting is as follows: the boy is on trial for allegedly murdering his father. When the boy turned nine years old, his mother died. His father began maltreating him even more when she passed away. The boy was later trained in switch-knife fighting. Using his acquaintance with a switch-knife, he used to stab a fellow student in the army. At fifteen, he was sent to reform school. It was also during these years that he mugged a person and stole a car. All of these events in his past history have not shown his past to be very good, and most people will find it hard to accept that he didn't commit any crimes. After a couple years, when the boy was nineteen years old, there was a fateful night. He and his father had had an argument. The father punched the boy, and the boy rushed out of the tenement in a huff. After, he "snuck into the theaters" just around twelve o' clock. As a coincidence, his father was struck through the heart with a switch knife, which happened with the same knife that the boy bought from a store supposedly for "a friend." As he says, on the way home, he lost it through gap in his pocket. His father was struck in the chest with the same knife that he "lost." All of these alleged facts seem, to all but one of the juries, as made-up alibis. Meanwhile, on the other hand, his neighbor, an old man who claims to have heard the boy yell, "I'm gonna kill you!" is almost seventy-five years old. Worth mentioning in your term paper that although the old man might be half-paralyzed, slow in picking up his two canes and walking almost sixty feet, he was still fast enough to do these things in fifteen seconds just in time to see the boy run down the flight of stairs.
However, when the jurors tried to recreate the scene of the old man getting up from bed, walking slowly 60 feet, they found that the time was almost forty seconds, though the man swore it was fifteen. Why would the old man lie? The man is seventy years old. And not once in his life...