Rod Serling's The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street

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The quote, “the tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout.” stands for all of society. The quote means that prejudice can kill, meaning that people acting on prejudice can harm someone in an extreme way. Suspicion can destroy, meaning that when not acting on prejudice, can destroy someone else without actually doing something towards them. This could: emotionally, physically, and mentally destroy someone. Rod Serling wrote about this on a television script describing prejudice and suspicion in society. The script was called, “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”. In the script, there is a town where all the power turns off and everybody is suspicious about what's happening. No one's power works until