Memory under emotional stress

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 This video clip from the movie twelve angry men dealt with a first degree murder case about a boy killing his father. One man in the movie belived that the boy was not guilty at the beginning of the movie who was named henry fonda and his occupation was an architect. Another who believes the boy was guilty mentioned a very good point which was that on the night of the murder the boy could not remeber the movies he had seen at all while he was under emotional stress. This arguement that the man is making is an appeal to logos because he simply talking about the facts of the case. Henry fonda begins to change the other mans arguement into a way that will appeal more to ethos than logos. Henry fonda begins to ask the other man some personal questions about what he did last night, the night before that, the night before that, even the night before that. The man that was being questioned could barely remember what he did every night in the past week while was not under emotional disstress. This also appeals to ethos because he had the expierence of what it is like to try to actually remember what he had did in the past so that way he would be forced to imagine what the boy was feeling on the night of the murder while he was under emotional disstress. I personally think that it is understandable to not be able to remember everything after your parent or parents had died, especially on the night of their murder.