Fear In The Neighbors Are Due On Maple Street

Fear is a natural emotion that could result in other unnatural behavior. Many people experience fear, while fear is not such a happy or joyful feeling but it will occur every now and then and you can only control yourself and your reactions. The teleplay effectively shows how human nature and fear can destroy itself by causing crazy accusations, suspicion, and overreactions. Fear can cause people to make crazy accusations and propose unrealistic theory’s. In the teleplay, The Neighbors Are Due on Maple Street were scared of the “meteor” or “spaceship” that flew across the sky, the neighbors started making up crazy theories. Tommy (a boy in the neighborhood) tells all the Neighbors on maple street about how aliens invade earth and how the aliens

In the teleplay Les Goodmans (a fellow neighbor) car started up all by itself. The neighbors talked and made up an accusation that Les was an alien. Obviously aliens aren’t realistic during this time period, (1950-1960) so the neighbors accusing Les of being an alien was a very unrealistic accusation. These accusations did nothing but harm the neighborhood and create a lurking suspicion amongst each other. Suspicion can be created by fear. During the teleplay the neighbors start becoming suspicious of each other and start investigating each other. On pages 69 and 70 the neighbors start picking out the small idiosyncrasies of each other and claim it to be suspicious activity. This includes Steve and his radio that he kept in the basement. The neighbors say that doing things they have always done are now suspicious, but it is only suspicious now because they are scared and in fear. This suspicion built up and caused the neighbors to team up and find a scapegoat. The neighbors grouped up and became suspicious of the new neighbors and decided to blame all the problems on the new neighbors. These problems include a strange object flying overhead with a roaring sound, power outage, and anything that needs power not