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Truth In The Jurors By Reginald Rose
The writer, Reginald Rose wants to show to me from thus play is that the truth matters more. He wants to show that the truth what matter more because throughout the play the Jurors keep arguing that boy isn't innocent. Later on in the play the Jurors started to find reasonable doubt on the evidence they had on the boy. Like when one of the witnesses said that they say the killing accruing through the window when the train was passing by. It wasn't possible for her to the killing accruing because it was in the middle of the night and she didn't have her glasses on so it was impossible for her to see the boy killing his father through the last to carts windows of the train when passing. (Rose 15) Also when the boy was accused of murdering his
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