Jurors
Story Elements
Legalese
Inference
Plot
100
This juror puts a movie ahead of the life of a young man accused of murder
Who is juror number 7?
100
This is the setting of the story. (Remember both parts!)
What is Chicago in the 1950s.
100
This is the person accused of the crime.
What is the defendant.
100
When Number 10 talks about "those" people and "they" all get what they deserve, what can we infer about him.
What is he is a racist.
100
This is what each act begins with.
What is a vote?
200
This juror stands up for what he believes is right even though he is the only one who believes it.
Who is juror number 8?
200
This is the primary conflict of the play.
What is man vs. man, when Juror Number 8 must stand up to Juror Number 3 and all the others.
200
This is the person who accuses the person of the crime.
What is the prosecutor?
200
This is the reason that Number 11 is so careful to follow procedure.
What is that he is from a place with no justice so he feels that he wants to make justice work in this case.
200
These are two of the four pieces of reasonable doubt that Number 8 establishes in Act II.
What is the knife (Act I)? What is the sound of the train is too loud to hear the boy yell? What is that the elderly man could not walk to the door in 15 seconds as he said? What is that the woman who looked out the window wore bifocals?
300
This juror sees people not as individuals, but as groups with all the same faults and problems and unethical choices.
Who is juror number 10?
300
There are three climaxes in this story; what are they?
What is the knife being produced at the end of Act I as the first cause of reasonable doubt? What is Juror Number 3 lunging at Juror Number 8 screaming, "I'll kill him!" at the end of Act II. And what is Juror Number 3 caving in and surrendering to Number 8 at the end of Act III.
300
This is what the jurors do to figure out whether or not the defendant is guilty or not guilty.
What is deliberate?
300
This is reason that Juror Number 9 knows that the witness is lying.
What is he must feel the same way at times and can relate to the witness
300
This is the reason that Number 8 throws his knife into the table.
What is to establish reasonable doubt
400
This juror beat his son, and his son hit him and left home.
Who is Juror Number 3?
400
This is the resolution of the primary conflict.
What is when 3 surrenders and gives in at the end of Act III.
400

The logical uncertainty that a defendant my not be guilty.

What is reasonable doubt?

400

The reason juror 5 gets upset when they are talking about people from slums

he grew up in a slum

400
This is the leader of the jurors and is Juror Number 1's job.
What is the Foreman?
500
This juror is most likely a Jewish immigrant who escaped Hitler's persecution?
Who is Juror Number 11?
500
This is the theme of the play.
What is, "It takes courage to stand alone" and do what you believe is right.
500
This is what the jury does that causes the accused to go home a free man.
What is acquit?
500
This is a reason that explains why Juror Number 3 is so angry and bitter.
What is that he feels guilt and shame over the way he treated his own son? He fears his son might hate him also.
500
This is the reason that the jurors are all different but very familiar to the reader/viewer.
What is they are all stereotypes.
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