Examples Of Hidden Figures In 12 Angry Men

The societies that Hidden Figures and Twelve Angry Men both face is packed with prejudice and, discrimination that can prevent progression among the underprivileged. Thus, change is important to help decrease these bigotry acts and further progression amongst society. Hidden Figures is set in the 1960’s in Virgina, America. During

This artifact that I selected is an acting project I did in my english class for this quarter. During this project a group of my peers and I had to act out a short book called The Twelve Angry Men which is about twelve men on jury that is stuck in a stale mate over a case on a murder. This artifact relates to the topic of letters because we based this play on a small yet pivotal section in the book. It relates to the grade theme of explore because this was my first time acting and I tried out or explored something new; however, I did not know or have a idea on how I would like it. While selecting an artifact I found my self drawn to this topic becuase I shows that play sports and other activities can be just as exciting as acting. I am

“A person is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law”. In the play, Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose, a 19-year-old is on trial for the murder of his father. After many pieces of evidence were presented, the three that are in doubt include the woman who wears glasses who lives across the street, the way the father was stabbed with the knife, and the old man who lives down stairs, who owns two canes. Based on these, the boy is not guilty.

To be a woman meant that one had no say in regards to political affairs or in government making decisions. If being a woman had limitations, imagine what a black woman experienced, as they were considered less than human and mistreated more than any other female from any different background. In “A Plea for the Oppressed”, Lucy Stanton, one such black woman, tried to avail her people’s plight upon an audience of white women, to support the antislavery and reform cause.

Segregation had had many effects on the black nation, to the point that it started building up ones character, “See the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness towards white people”, King shows readers that segregation is even affecting little children, that it is starting to build up a young girls character and is contributing to the child developing hatred “bitterness” towards the white Americans. King makes readers imagine a black cloud settling in a young girls brain mentally, when instead she should have an image of a colorful blue sky with a rainbow, isn’t that suppose to be part of a 6 year-old’s imagination? King gives readers an image of destruction civil disobedience had created in the black community, especially in the young innocent little children.

This story also uses appeal of pathetic to grab the reader’s attention. Throughout the story the author, Ralph Ellison, struggles to attempt to uncover the invisible man’s identity that is buried beneath oppression. It is important to understand that the invisible man is an African American male who sates that he is only looked down on because of his skin color (Ellison). Ralph Ellison goes in detail by showing us how lies can be seen as an obstacle to anyone’s journey of finding himself and his true identity. These obstacles are expressed in Ralph Ellison’s usage of symbols and imagery portrays those obstacles. The man is faced with these obstacles of deception in his ability to make his own life, but instead is confined to live the life in white men’s society. The purpose calls for action to the public to open their eyes to realize that racism is a problem that will not go away; it is something that must be forced to an end whereby men are willing to be themselves in the process.

Racism is an issue that blacks face, and have faced throughout history directly and indirectly. Ralph Ellison has done a great job in demonstrating the effects of racism on individual identity through a black narrator. Throughout the story, Ellison provides several examples of what the narrator faced in trying to make his-self visible and acceptable in the white culture. Ellison engages the reader so deeply in the occurrences through the narrator’s agony, confusion, and ambiguity. In order to understand the narrators plight, and to see things through his eyes, it is important to understand that main characters of the story which contributes to his plight as well as the era in which the story takes place.

1. Intro Many movies and plays use persuasion to persuade the audience into believing something that they want them to believe in. There are three major types of of techniques used to persuade someone. They are logos, pathos, ethos.

Set in the 1950’s post depression America and written by world renowned playwright Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men has become a much loved classic within the drama playwright genre. With an abundance of audacious themes skillfully displayed throughout the feature length play, Rose has pushed the boundaries of the overly oppressive era from which the play was first published. The two main themes that were explored to great lengths throughout the play were prejudices and stereotypes. These themes were both highlighted through the use of three key literary devices; structure, setting and interactions of characters.

Bernard Roth`s definition of self image in The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing and Take Command Of Your Life revolves around identifying “your role models,” “being autonomous,” and finding “your self-image” (192, 196, 205). In 12 Angry Men, when Juror Eleven says, “What kind of man are you? You have sat here and voted guilty with everyone else because there are some baseball tickets burning a hole in your pocket?” (Rose ) this calls to mind Roth’s question, “how do we interpret our own self image” (198). Throughout the process of examining their self images, each juror learns a great deal about his own biases and prejudices. Juror Eight is the conscientious role model who influences his fellow jurors to withhold judgement, to accept different points of view, and to communicate respectfully which forces them to examine their own self-image.

Hidden Figures is a film based on a remarkable true story about three colored women in the 1960s. The movie follows the lives of Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson, and Kathrine Johnson. These women used their intellect at NASA to contribute to the launch of the first American into space. Hidden Figures also represents the contribution of these women to society. They helped put a man in space, yet they didn’t receive the proper appreciation during their time. Hidden Figures helps give those women gratitude for all that they did for NASA and the United States. Even though this film acknowledges their achievements, it recognizes the hardships the women faced while working for NASA as well as the hardships of all other African American women in the workplace. A few of the hardships they faced were sexism, discrimination, and ageism.

The play Twelve Angry Men demonstrates the significance of analyzing character traits in order to better understand a character’s motivations. A character who is unlike me is juror 8 because he is very courageous, I am far from courageous. He doesn’t care what people think about him. He’s not scared to speak how he feels, and what he thinks. For me I can’t do that I am scared of what people will think. For example he says “It’s not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first” (rose 12). He wasn’t scared to say that while everyone else just sat there. He is saying what he thinks is right. I don’t show courage because I am scared of what people will think about what I have to say,

Twelve Angry Men is a courtroom drama that was brought to the big screens in 1957. The storyline follows twelve men selected for jury duty, who are trying to reach a verdict on a young man’s trial following the murder of his father. Throughout the debates and voting, the men all reveal their personalities and motives behind their opinions. Because of all the differences of the men, their communication skills lack in some ways and are excellent in others. The three small group communication variables that I found portrayed throughout the movie were prejudice, past experience and preoccupation.

3. Social identity (10 points): What role(s) does social identity play in the movie? Discuss SID in relationship of the jury to the accused. (Define your terms and give two examples of how they apply).

Twelve Angry Men, by Reginald Rose, is a play about a jury trying to come to a verdict that will determine whether or not a teenage boy will be put on death row.