Monsters Are Due On Maple Street Sparknotes

In both versions there are many differences and few similarities. Rod Serling, changed updates to relate time period to a modern theme. "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" 1960 version is black and white and the 2002 version is in color. The 1960 version is less violent how the 2002 version is very violent. The characters change for looking and dressing alike to look nothing alike in the 1960 episode everyone is white fancy as where the 2002 episode has people who don’t care who they look like and they don’t have the same skin color.

“ Click.” The power goes off on maple street. Midday the power suddenly goes off after a meteor looking thing flies over. As the power goes off on maple street everyone comes outside to see what happened. Nothing was working there were no cars,phones,radios,and no lights working. Les Goodman tries to start his car but it doesn’t work so he starts walking towards the people his car starts up by itself since everyone thought someone on maple street was a alien they all started blaming Les Goodman for everything that had happen. The plot is realistic in “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”because power goes off in real life,people do blame other people,and phones can stop working or go dead.

The series Twilight Zone is a show that combines science fiction with society. Every episode ends with a shocking, unexpected twist. “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” is an episode that informs society about the fear of prejudice and hysteria. In this episode, a loud shadow in the sky passes through Maple Street. The shadow is actually a meteor. Unexpected and strange things start to happen like the electricity and cars turning off. The people who live on Maple become very curious on what the meteor has done to the neighbors living on the street. A young boy named Tommy tells the adults that everything weird happening is because of the aliens from outer space, which he read about in a comic book. First the

In the story The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street is that the people on Maple St. are turning over themselves because of a boy who said the monsters were people that lived in their neighborhood.They are not actually thier in the neighborhood,but they were up on a hill watching them and controlling what they do.The theme in this story is that the humans are the real monsters.

In the story, “Monsters are Due on Maple Street”, the characters are impacted by the setting. In the text, when the power goes out, the character Pete Van Horn said he will go downtown to the police station to find out why the power is out. The power going out makes it so the people want to find an immediate reason why this happened since they always have power. In the text, when Pete Van Horn is walking back from downtown, Charlie shoots him with a shotgun. The author makes it so after the shot everybody starts to go crazy and it's at night so it makes it crazier.

Boom!! Pete’s dead. Charlie shot Pete. Pete was walking around seeing if everybody's power is off. Pete was walking In the shadow charlie got scared he thought Pete was a alien. This story is not realistic because Charlie shot Pete he said he thought he was a alien. Less Goodman’s car stared out of nowhere. A meteor flew overhead they thought it was a spaceship.

In conclusion, fear of the unrecognized may change people to suspect and turn on one another. Because the power went out and Tommy’s alien theory, there was a lot of confusion of aliens that were attacking. During the power outage, there was a suspect of terrorists because Philips theory. Different people who show idiosyncrasy were used as a scapegoat. Without information about others, people in strange situations tend to turn on each other. The real monsters on Maple Street weren’t the aliens, it was the people turning on each

Based on “12 Angry Men” and “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” it is difficult to stand up to the group because people might resort to violence, face rejection of their ideas, and crumble to social pressure. One of the reasons why it is difficult to stand up to the group, as seen in “12 Angry Men” is that people might turn to violence. For example, in 12 Angry Men-(Rose) we have this text “#3(Roaring) “Shut up!” And he lunges wildly at #8.

In the teleplay “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” by Rod Serling, aliens shut down the power and create chaos on Maple Street. Lights go off in people’s houses and neighbors no longer trust each other. Through the action, the author conveys fear and suspicion.

What if someone you knew was not who they were? What if they were aliens or terrorists? That’s what happens in the 1960 and the 2003 version of Rod Serling’5s teleplay. In the 1960 version the neighbors are accusing each other of being aliens and taking away each other’s power from their houses and cars. While in the 2003 version they think terrorists are doing this from the recent 9/11. This shows that fear of the unknown can cause people to turn on each other.

Imagine this – you feel so alone and scared so much so that you and your neighbors accuse, riot, and even murder each other. Well, this is exactly what happened in the teleplay “Monsters are due on Maple Street” originally broadcasted in 1960, written by Rod Serling. They were all afraid that aliens would terrorize and take them over. While in the 2003 version “Monsters are on Maple Street” they all finger point to the new neighbors who moved in the dark of the night. The fear of the unknown can cause people to turn on each other.

One thing that people do when they do not know a certain objective is that they might start to get enraged or frightened and they can start to turn very violent. The show called The Twilight Zone, is a series of short stories that follow different groups of people that face different problems. They all come back to the main theme that humans are really monsters. In the short story, Monsters are Due on Maple Street by Rod Serling a group of people soon find out that the power is cut and they are suspicious that an alien is behind this. It shows two weapons of humanity which are suspicion and scapegoating. There are some ways that suspicion led the humans to turn on each other and how it is shown to go against humans.

The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street. A world of fear and paranoia, who could the monster be, hiding among the people. In The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street, there is no monster, as everyone is a monster. Throughout the whole story, everyone gets controlled by paranoia and fear.

“There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices-to be found only in the minds of men.” This is the message that Rod Serling tried to convey to fans of The Twilight Zone through an episode called “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street.” The episode first aired in 1960, and a new version was made in 2003 called “The Monsters on Maple Street.” In the original, the power goes out because of a meteor and avid comic book reader Tommy convinces the whole street that there are aliens among them, except for voice of reason Steve Brand. In the remake, an entire street becomes fearful of terrorists after a power outage following an orange alert, except for Will Marshall, who believes the hysteria is crazy. Both versions prove that fear of the unknown can cause people to

“Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria” - Alan Greenspan. New York author, Alan Greenspan, here is explaining that the threat fear presents is really no different than the state of intensity caused by euphoria. In Andrew J. Hoffman’s anthology, Monsters, there is substantial evidence that both fear and euphoria are inflicted upon men, by female monsters. The two threats men typically face against women are temptation and emasculation. Thus, in mythology and folklore, female monsters exemplify the impulse of desire (sexually) for men, and male weakness. These are creature that are lusted after and yet, still feared because of their power. Men find female monsters both fearsome and euphoric and will always threaten their dominance and control.