How can the Monsters are Due on Maple Street and The Andy Griffith Show be the same and different? In the Andy Griffith Show a guy named Ed Sawyer comes to town, nobody knows who he is or where he came from. Ed knows everything about the people of Mayberry and this raises suspicion and freaks a few people out. In the Monsters are Due on Maple Street aliens try to take over Maple Street by shutting of the power, making cars not run and cutting the portable radio signal, but nobody knows aliens are controlling these things. Then, a little boy Tommy put a hair raising thought into everyone’s head by telling the what he read in a comic book about how aliens disguised themselves as humans. This scares everyone and people start accusing one another. But despite the differences or similarities both pieces bring a good lesson. The Andy Griffith Show and The Monsters are Due on Maple Street both moods start out as …show more content…
In The Andy Griffith Show when Ed Sawyer comes to town and knows everything about everyone people start getting scared and worried. they want to run him out of town and even fight him. everyone has different accusations about what to do and they start to fight. In the monsters are due on Maple Street after Tommy put the scary thought and everyone's head, they all start accusing one person after another of being aliens. All the people of Maple Street started fighting with each other and a person even got shot. In The Andy Griffith Show in the monsters on Maple Street are different because they have different settings. In The Andy Griffith Show the setting is in the middle of the day in a little town called Mayberry around the mid the 1950s. In the monsters are due on Maple Street the setting is in a little neighborhood on Maple Street. It takes place in the afternoon on a Saturday around the mid-to-late