12 Angry Men Answers

Question: What instructions does the judge give to the jurors?

Answer: To separate facts from fancy, to deliberate honestly and thoughtfully

Question: What is the result of the first vote?

Answer: 11-1 in favor of guilty

Question: Which Juror is anxious to leave?

Answer: Juror #7, the slick salesman who wants to make his baseball game

Question: Which juror is least confident of his vote?

Answer: Juror #2, only does it to go with the flow

Question: Who votes not guilty?

Answer: Juror #8, he wants to talk it out before sending a teen to the electric chair

Question: Why is Juror #3 angry towards all kids?

Answer: He has problems with his son, where he taught him to be tough but then he ran away.

Question: What does Juror #10 reveal about himself when he says “I lived among ‘em all my life.”

Answer: He shows how he is racist, bias and prejudice and that is mainly fueling his verdict.

Question: What comments do Four and Ten make about the defendant? Why is five offended?

Answer: They describe people who grow up from slums as trash and menaces to society. Five is offended since he is successful working as a nurse and grew up from a slum.

Question: Why does Juror 8 have a funny feeling about the trial?

Answer: He believes that everyone is too positive that the boy is guilty and that the lawyer didn’t defend the boy to the best of his ability.

Question: Why is the ‘knife theory’ invalidated?

Answer: Juror 8 goes out and buys the exact same knife which invalidates the testimony of the shopkeeper that the knife used to kill the father was one of a kind.