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Summary Of The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street

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Have you ever wondered how the setting in the text” The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” impacted the character, plot, and theme? Well, if not, he's right. Today how the setting of this text helps shape all major things in this text. In the story “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” by Rod Serling, the setting of the text impacts the characters, plot, and theme.. The setting conveyed the message of the mysterious mysteries of the text. In the text, “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” the setting impacts the characters. For example in the text, something passes over the house and has everyone fascinated by what it is. Steve: “What is that? Is that a meteor?” Don: “That’s what it looks like but I didn’t hear a crash.” The object that flies overhead that is used to describe the setting impacts the characters because it put’s them in a state of curiosity that weather whatever flew over them caused the weird stuff to happen in their neighborhood. …show more content…

The people’s murmuring becomes a loud chant filling the air with accusations and demands for action. Two of the men pass Don and head toward Les, who backs away from them against his car. He is cornered by the snare. This is when everyone started showing their anger and nearly turned into a mob; they were just saying the most direspctful things to and about each other because of the strange things that happened. In conclusion, the setting helps the reader understand how the characters are impacted in the various ways. Also in the text “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” the plot is impacted by the setting. In the text, when Steve’s car isn’t working, then he and Charlie try to walk, but Tommy stops them because he thinks that it’s aliens. He and Charlie exchange a look. Then they start to walk away from the group. Tommy comes into

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“The Monsters are Due on Maple Street,” by Rod Serling criticize the people of Maple Street. The teleplay (as we will call “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”) criticizes the people of Maple Street by saying, “(People shout, accuse, and scream as the lights go on and off. Then, slowly, in the middle of this nightmarish confusion of sight and sound,)” This shows that they are chaotic people at the end of the teleplay. (Remember?

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