Tuesday, April 19, 2016
12 Angry Men
12 Angry Men could be looked at as an untold story. In the play a 19 year old boy's story is being told if he is guilty or innocent for stabbing his father to death. The boy tells his story as if he is innocent. He explains what he was doing that night on the night his father was killed. Witnesses tell their story as if the boy is guilty. They explain what they heard and saw the night the father was killed. The jury tells their story to each other about what they think happened and if the boy is guilty or innocent. A lot of stories are told. One story that is not told is the father that was killed. That is the untold story. If he had a chance to tell his story what would you think would be different? I think a lot would be different if we had a chance to hear his story. The 19 year old's story was told about how he grew up without a mother, lived in the slums and been knocked down through out his life. These are reasons why he could of committed the crime. Maybe he was an angry kid. But that story is only being looked at one way. If the father was here he could of told us the story from the other side. Was the boy always in trouble? Was the father only trying to help him and teach him? Did they have a good relationship? All questions the father could have answered. The father's untold story could show the truth and let the other side of the story be shown. If the untold story was told, the 19 year old's story would not have been told. If the father's untold story was told, what would you think would be different?
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I think seeing the father story would change the whole basics of the story because then the son wouldn't be on jury trial for killing his father so we wouldn't know what the story would then be about however to switch it up hearing the mothers side of the story about the father and the son relationship would be a good idea because then you can see the truth and you can see if they had a good or a rocky relationship or if the play gave more background information about their relationship then we would know if the son story is really untold
ReplyDeleteI agree that the mother's story can be an untold story too. The father's story is an untold story but if we heard his story, he could be lying about it too like the kid. So if we heard the mother's story we would be able to hear the truth about the father and the kid.
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