Monster are Due on Maple Street
By: Ethan Pierre
"Bang" was the sound of Charlie's shotgun. Aliens, that's what are trying to take over the neighborhood. They are everywhere among us. It was a quiet stereotypical day on Maple Street, USA; kids playing, people talking ice cream man selling ice cream. And then there was a sudden flash of light, and that was when the monsters came. Fear can turn human beings into monsters. It can also change actions, thoughts, and others' thoughts.
Fear can change human actions from exile to horrid in a second. In the teleplay, Les Goodman's car started when no one else could. And when the woman said he looks up at the stars at night. Everyone suspects or fears Les Goodman because they are looking for an answer or a scapegoat. Everyone was scared of something but did not know who or what to fear, so they blamed the obvious. But the other house's lights came on, and people started to accuse others, and then it fell apart. That was when Pete van horn was shot. They were scared and began to blame others, "you may be the monster," they said. It was an example of fear and suspicion because their fear manipulated their decisions. When more people enter the conversation, they accuse more, and it spirals into chaos.
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In the teleplay, the gunshots and violence began as soon as they started accusing one another. They all start to charge one another, a fight breaks out, and gunshots go off. It describes the topic and how it happened, why it happened, and how it was caused. Alien started to talk and say, "they picked the most dangerous enemy they could find, and it was themselves." Figure one says, "their worlds are full of Maple Street and will go from one to the other, destroying them." It was saying what the Alien's target is and describes it, representing their thoughts of them. Once the aliens are done, the narrator says the tools of conquest do not come with explosions and