Summary Of The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street

In the story” The Monsters Are Due On Maple street “ by Rod Serling ,the events and character’s actions advance the plot by the important things that the characters and events do to make the story or explain the story. In the story Steve stated “Doesn’t make sense.Why should the power go off all of a sudden,and the phone line?”Everyone was outside talking. After that statement Steve said everyone in Maple Street U.S.A is questioning on what happened to the power and why it turned off. There was a meteor that flew pass by and the neighbors were thinking maybe that's what had to do with it and it wasn't just the power it was everything like cars not starting up. Then charlie and Steve start to walk down town and talk to the police officer about what is happening or what is going on.Until ,Tommy the little boy stated “They don’t want us to leave,That’s why they shut everything off.” Everyone was wondering what he was talking about .

The neighbors in Maple Street U.S.A were not listening to his nonsense that Tommy said. While the neighbors were still talking about what Tommy said and arguing about it ,one of the neighbors said “He got his car started somehow.He got his car started up!” said Man One.That's when all the neighbors started to go over to Mr.Goodman and they started to point the fingers at him and asking him lots of questions,but Mr.goodman was not having it he told them he didn't do it. The neighborhood started to blame things on each other because some people in the neighborhood like Steve,Charlie,Mr.Goodman and more people started to make these assumptions of each person and why they think that one of people in Maple Street U.S.A turned the power off. They started to go crazy after that and there were people destroying homes ,property, and killing