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How Does The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street Play Script

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Thesis Both the teleplay script and the filmed episode of “The Monsters are due on Maple Street” tell the story of the people hearing a roar and a big flash of light. Both mediums use unique techniques to develop the plot, bring the story to life, and create a confused and shocked mood. Body paragraph 1 In the script and episode The Monsters are due on Maple Street the author.director uses the technique dialogue.For example in the script it says "The people of maple street see a big flash of light and hear a roar.This has an affect on the audience because when they are reading they might get a better understanding of what is happening and the characters don't speak about what the dialogue says like what if it says something that is about to happen. That the characters don't see like the author can say in the distance there is something heading their way they won't see that but we will know because of the dialogue.Another example of this technique is in the text when tommy talked about what …show more content…

charlies lights turn on and they argue and every light starts to flicker and they all start to panic and scream.This has an effect on the audience because they might be able to connect the shock and fear if they were there with them.This technique visuals and sound has an impact on the audience because if they see the light flicker they might think a monster or something is about to happen and if they hear roars or screams they might think something is going their way or about to have something come out and scare

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He also uses it to portray the characteristics of each character. He does this by incorporating conversations into the story, and that is where dialogue comes into play. For instance, when Conor first meets his cell mates at Little Saltee, he strikes up a conversation. Conor starts off by saying, “Hi, I’m Conor, and I committed a murder.” The reader knows perfectly well that what he said was a lie, but that single line of dialogue is what makes Conor infamous at Little Saltee.

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Both the teleplay script and the filmed episode of "The Monsters are due on Maple Street" tell the story of a neighborhood of people that discover that none of their accessibility is working and want to get to the bottom of the reason why. Both mediums use unique techniques to develop the plot, bring the dialogue to life, and create a suspenseful mood. In the script and episode of "The Monsters are Due On Maple Street", the author uses the technique of Visual Techniques. For example, in the teleplay, it says Down the street, a figure has suddenly materialized in the gloom.

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What the characters say allows you to understand their characteristics so readers can feel compassion or sympathy towards these fictional characters. Also, with the round characters Ray Bradbury developed their dialogue is unexpected. For example, when the main character

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Rod Serling’s message that he was trying to get watchers of “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” to see throughout this episode of the “Twilight Zone” is that fear is a human’s worst enemy. Serlings represents this theme throughout the characters and their actions that fear drove them to take. The theme of fear driving humans to do regrettable things starts to be brought through the story when Charlie shoots Pete Van Horn and kills him. In the text, it says “Charlie slowly raises the gun.

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The extremely intense crashing sounds and strobe lighting, designed by Chivers and Gibbons, were a constant commodity that is used in every scene that ultimately aided in connecting the plot to the audience, who were immersed completely from beginning to

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The usage of short sentences gets the point across faster and keeps the reader engaged with the story. It also creates a feeling of realism that the reader is involved in the scene and gives them a feeling that something negative is going to happen. uThe setting also gives an atmosphere of suspense when they are walking down the streets, past the wax dummies shop “Do you suppose if we screamed they’d do anything?” The characters

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