Maple Street Summary

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An atmosphere of fear and anxiety is created in order to highlight the eventual theme of the story. It was a normal say on Maple Street. Kids were playing and adults were listening to the radio and working outside. That is when what is to believed to be a meteor went overhead and disrupted the calmness. Steve Brand and his neighbor, Don Martin, were both working outside at the time. “Looked like a meteor didn’t it? I didn’t hear any crash though.” Steve tells Don, which leads the reader to believe it was not a normal meteor. After the “meteor” passes over Maple Street, there was a power outage that also affected cars, radio, and water. The inhabitants of Maple Street began speculating why the power outage had also affected their cars, radios,

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