Vocabulary
Character types that appear so often that their natures are immediately familiar to the reader or audience
Stereotypes
Premeditated Homicide
1st Degree Murder
The Bigot
Juror 10
The type of knife used as the murder weapon
a switch-blade knife
The witness with the bum leg that testified to the boy's guilt and says he saw the boy running down the stairs after the murder.
The old man who lived in the apartment beneath where the murder happened.
Where were you on the night of May 14th?
"I was walking around when the switchblade knife fell through a hole in my pocket. I swear!"
Alibi
Capitol Punishment
The death penalty
The main antagonist
Juror 3
The age of the defendent
16
The reason why the old man might not have heard the boy's voice clearly when the boy screamed, "I'm gonna kill you!!"
The noise of a passing elevated train
Everybody votes the same way.
unanimous
The evidence made orally by a witness under oath in response to interrogation by a lawyer; what the witness saw or knows.
Testimony
The first juror to vote 'not guilty', and happens to be the protagonist.
Juror 8
The cost of a switch-knife that looks exactly like the murder weapon, that proves the knife is not rare.
$6
How Juror 8 created a reasonable doubt about the old man seeing the boy running down the steps.
Re-enacting the old man's testimony that it took him 15 seconds to get into the hallway to see the boy escaping
Someone with an extreme prejudice against another ethnic group.
Bigot
They have the burden of proof in a trial, ie. they have to prove the defendant committed the crime.
Prosecution
The elderly man and the second to vote 'not guilty' and brought reasonable doubt about the woman's eyesight that saw the murder through the windows of a moving elevated train.
Juror 9
The city in which the jury room is located.
New York City
Why the jury reasonably doubts the testimony of the woman across the street who witnessed the murder.
People don't wear glasses to bed.
The point or points in the play where the action becomes most emotional.
Dramatic Climax
When a jury cannot come to a unanimous decision
Hung Jury
He grew up in the slums and solidified reasonable doubt about the knife wound that killed the victim.
Juror 5
The setting
The jury room
The idea/theme that caused many of the jurors to believe the boy was guilty
Prejudice