Monsters Are Due On Maple Street Sparknotes

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.

In the “Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” by Rod Serling, there are distinct ways events and characters in the story make the plot successful. One example of this is when one of the characters named Tommy said “They don’t want us to leave. That’s why they shut everything off...landing from outer space.” In this case, this quote indicates that Tommy feels as if monsters from outer space are controlling the electricity on the street. Similarly, the plot further develops when Les Goodman’s car starts on its own, “The car idles roughly, smoke coming from the exhaust, the frame shaking gently.” Consequently, this is crucial because it shows that this supposed power outage is not an ordinary occurrence. Finally, near the end of the play, the

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.

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

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

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.

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.

“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

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 play “The Monster Are Due on Maple Street” by Rod Serling, the actions of the characters and events help advance the plot by blaming each other and going to extreme actions because they had fear in them in this one play. As quoted in the passage, Tommy explains the idea of how they aliens came down, “They looked just like humans. And it wasn’t until the ship landed that-.” Before Tommy said that everyone thought it was a meteor that came down and took the power out. Tommy was explaining how he knew that it was actually the aliens that came down.

“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.

The Monsters on Maple Street is an episode from the TV series Twilight Zone. The episode is about aliens from Outer Space who cut off everyone's electricity on Maple Street. The aliens wanted to see if the humans would turn on each other which is exactly what they did. The humans all started to accuse each other and at the end, they started to be violent and hurt each other. The aliens lesson or message is that without someone to blame people make up people to blame.