Runaway Jury Analysis

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The Power Of Persuasion It seems almost impossible for a single juror of twelve to persuade the rest to follow his verdict. Well in The Runaway Jury by John Grisham he proves just that in a story based on real events about a character(Nicholas Easter) whose original plan was to help out and individually he met by working from the inside out and vice versa to persuade the opinions of the others into swaying the verdict to go his way. Grisham writes this story to show relevance in how even the most common of people can have the most influential impact on your opinion of how you perceive something is to be. Nicholas Easter is your common randomly chosen candidate for a jury case that happens to be a lawsuit against the major tobacco company. He is chosen among twelve in an non-biased research of sixty by agents who state “Safe to say we’ll take number fifty-seven”(pg.7) after secretly photographing this juror “half-hidden smoking a cigarette.”(pg.7) Nicholas who has worked in a computer store for a couple of months, apparently a part time student, and was not a smoker, to the agents knowledge anyways; Is met up with a woman of middle age who happens to be a smoker and will later on give excruciating details of jury members to help Nicholas worm his way into throwing off agents and influencing the others. A well-rounded 27 year old man, who at first glance would seem like a trustworthy individual, is the same guy who does not mind playing games with your head. Pertaining to the idea that you can use persuasive techniques to gain control over an event or persons beliefs is stressed thoroughly in this story. The lady from before just always happens to be in the right spot at the right time, more of a foreshadowing detail but eventually after finding out what Nicholas is doing at the courtroom day after day she decides to help tamper with the case itself and tips a
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