The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, a teleplay written by Rod Serling, starts in the late afternoon on Maple Street USA. Something bright flies overhead and the power goes out and the people who live there get advice from a 12 year old and get scared there are aliens out there. Tommy, the 12 year old, told them about the movies and comics that he has read. The narrator is an observer that is describing what happens while everyone goes mad trying to find a scapegoat. Steve is the only person who tries to reason with everyone while they are getting suspicious and trying to blame a scapegoat. This teleplay shows some of the human flaws that the people on maple street will encounter during their little power outage.
People have a tendency
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He says "Go ahead, what's my wife said? Let's get it all out. Let's pick out every idiosyncrasy of every single man, woman, and child on the street. And then we might as well set up some kind of a kangaroo court. How about a firing squad at dawn, Charlie, so we can get rid of all the suspects? Narrow them down. Make it easier for you." Steve says this to the group of people on maple street when Charlie is listing people that might have something to do with the "alien attack". This is another example of people trying to blame other people or them getting suspicious and trying.
The people also deflected the blame to another person, here are a few examples. "Les Goodman's the one. His car started! Let's wreck it," another is "What about Steve's radio. He's the one that called them. Smash the radio. Get me a hammer. Get me something." The last one is... "It isn't the kid...it's Bob Weaver's house." There are a lot more than that, but they all have the same explanation, and that is, none of them wanted to get blamed because they saw the things that they said they were going to do to the person when they found whoever it
If you were in a situation where you had no idea what was going on, and someone proposed an idea that could help you, and give you some direction, would you believe them? In both stories, The Twilight Zone “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street”, and All Summer In A Day, the theme is expressed that a single idea can turn a crowd into a mob. Something as little as one idea can turn people against one another, and get them to do things they might regret. In The Twilight Zone “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street,” this is demonstrated when everyone is in a frenzy, and Charlie ends up shooting Pete Vanhorn. In All Summer In A Day, William’s claims lead to Margot’s condemnation, and her being locked in a closet. A combination of confusion and imagination can lead to something dangerous and chaotic pretty easily.
Conover inferred many times that when something bad happens there will always be another person pointing the finger at another o...
The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street? is a good play to watch for all ages. The play is so relatable to viewers because the characters are the kind of people everyone knows. Steve Brand is the sensible character. He, alone, is the person who stays level-headed throughout the entire ordeal.
In America we believe in the saying “you are innocent until proven guilty” but we the people are remarkably swift to point our fingers at someone we believe that committed the crime. This habit is frequently displayed within our criminal justice system when a crime is committed we quickly assume it has something to do with the first person we can link the crime to. We tend to naturally feel sympathy for the victim therefore; if the individual accuses one for a crime the jury has no reason not to believe the victim. Society does not bother to care if the individual did not do the crime because as long as someone was caught and accused of the wrongdoing, then we the people can proceed on with our lives knowing we punished someone for the crime
Have you ever experienced a group turning into a mob or people being influenced to join the mob? Everyone forcing each other and going against each other just ,because someone wants them to? The Twilight Zones, “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” written by Rod Serling, and the book “The Wave” written by Todd Strasser, both are based around a group turning into a mob. In “The Wave” a school experiment goes wrong. After teacher Ben Ross decides he wants to recreate the Holocaust in his classroom, the project grows out of hand and in the end almost the whole school has turned to The Wave. However, this book relates ,because it shows how everyone is being pressured to join into this group. In The Twilight Zones, “The Monsters are Due on Maple
Out of nowhere in the sky above maple street appears an asteroid shaped object. “The monsters are due on maple street” is about a small community who loses power to everything including cars. I think “the monsters are due on maple street” is realistic because the power goes out, there is a meteor, and the neighbors turn into a mob.
In the play, “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” by Rod Serling, the events and the characters actions advance the plot by the author stating what the characters’ are feeling and acting. After reading the passage, in the beginning, the most important event that happened was when the meteor flew over the sky and the power went out. For example, the passage states, “Steve, the power’s off, I had the soup on the stove and the stove just stopped working”. The reason why this is the most important event is because it's the thing that started all of the chaos. The next thing that happened in the middle of the passage is that when the woman saw that in Charlie's house the lights went on. Some evidence on why this is the most important is because
While the GOP suffers under the existential reality of its meandering Frankenstein Monster (AKA Donald Trump), conservative America must come to the reality its lives with a metastasized cancer born of its 1970s/1980s "southern strategy."
Rod Serling’s message to the readers of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” is that the only thing to fear is fear itself. The theme begins to appear in the story when Tommy explained what happened in his comic book, which had a situation just like this. Everyone was paranoid because if what Tommy was saying was true, there was an alien among the group. , I know this because in the text, it says “That was the way they prepared things for the landing. They sent four people, a mother and a father and two kids who looked just like humans...but they
“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”’s plot is unrealistic because the neighbors believe Tommy’s outrageous belief, They shoot Pete without any former warning, and the fact that the entire plot would not have happened if it weren’t for the impractical power outage. This story contains countless instances where the plot strays from reality. I hope this essay will inform you of my beliefs.
especially John and Patsy Ramsey. It was obvious to me that they were involved but the
These kinds of actions are similar to the acts done during witch trials throughout the centuries. A times when women, and occasionally men, were blamed for others’ misfortune through means of black magic. “Witches” were blamed for things like the death of livestock and crops, when in actuality the owners of the livestock and crops just hadn't tended to them properly. () They don’t admit this because it’s not in human nature to admit fault, even when admitting fault is what a person needs to do to achieve self improvement. Th...
The articles “To what extent did the Cold War shape the American domestic life of the 1950s?” and “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” by Rod Serling are very similar in many ways. Both texts talk about unsubstantiated accusations made by once friendly people and they both eventually ending with complete chaos and destruction. Although both texts are about different things, they both execute the same idea that most people have a monstrous side.
Rod Serling’s message to the readers of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” is don't judge someone base on little to no evidence and fear. The theme begins to appear in the story after the power on everything goes out and the Tommy has said that alien are here, and the only thing to work is les goodman´s car starts and everyone think he is the alien. In the text it Charlie said ¨He always was an oddball. Him and his whole family. Real oddball¨, This shows that Charlie think he is the alien because he acts a little weird, which is almost no evidence. Later in the story the the neighbors see a figure walking towards them so don grabs a shotgun then charlie grabs it and shot the figure, but it turns out to be Van Horn. In the text it says,
We live in a world where creatures have abilities that can blow our minds, however we are ignorant of this. We live in a world where a constant power struggle is occurring between these secret species, a struggle that most human beings have no inclination of. We live in a world where people who know the truth are sworn to secrecy, and those proclaim this truth are considered crazy and locked away; to be sane is to be ignorant. Well, that is what I would love to be true. In actuality, I am fascinated with the topic of monsters; I love them all: lycanthropes, Frankenstein’s monster, witches, fae, necromancers, zombies, demons, mummies, and my favorite: vampires. This fetish has been manifested in the movies I view, the televisions shows I watch, and the books I read. When my obsession with reading is crossed with my obsession with monsters the result is a bookshelf containing more vampire novels than most people would consider healthy. I have discovered that every vampire novel varies vastly; no two books are ever alike. For example, the Twilight Series, the Anita Blake Series and the Vampire Chronicles Series have different legends and lore, different relationships between vampires and society, and different genres, theme, and purpose; this array of novels display most clearly the range of audience for vampire genre can cater.