<Tab/>"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I-- / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference" (Frost "The Road Not Taken" 18-20). Two great pieces of literature, Frost's poem and Reginald Rose's play 12 Angry Men, treat the theme of making difficult decisions with openness and honesty. In "The Road Not Taken," a man walks along a road in a "yellow wood." He comes …
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…difficult choice. Be it on a dysfunctional jury or in the woods deciding which road to take. 12 Angry Men stresses that you should look at everything involved before you make a decision. "The Road Not Taken" says that the speaker's best decision in life was when he decided to take the "road that wanted wear." Everything on Earth is based upon choices: Even if you've decided not to make a choice, you've still decided something.