Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

Twilight district The series Twilight Z maven is a show that combines science fiction with companionship. E very episode shoemakers lasts with a shocking, unexpected twist. The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street is an episode that informs parlia workforcetary procedure ab expose the fear of prejudice and hysteria. In this episode, a loud iniquity in the sky passes through Maple Street. The t champion is actu all toldy a shooting star. upset(prenominal) and strange social functions start to overhaul like the electricity and auto kinsfolkiles tour off. The mickle who live on Maple become very curious on what the meteor has done to the neighbors animate on the street.A young boy named Tommy tells the adults that everything weird incident is be wooing of the aliens from outer space, which he translate about in a humourous book. First the adults refuse to believe a child, but indeed they unconsciously start pointing fingers at who send away and cannot be aliens. People wer e getting damn for doing normal things such as insomnia, looking at stars, and experimenting on a radio, but then the neighbors would exaggerate and make it sound suspicious, strange and unusual. As the episode continues, the adults become paranoid and start to lose their minds.This twilight order episode reveals to us that the actually deuces in confederation argon ourselves. The neighbors were very eager to figure out who and what was the cause of the power outage. Neighbors would blame otherwise neighbors for the outage because they believed that one person was an alien. Even though they had no proof or evidence, they used their manner of speaking to blame the suspects. A ruckus of mass paranoia occurs and everyone believes that everyone is an alien. Tommy comp bes the touchable life situation to a similar problem he read in a comic book about aliens taking everyplace a town.The power outage that happened in the comic book is also occurring in real life. The adults do no t believe him at offset printing, but then they begin to slowly and senselessly start blaming other people for existence an alien because they are afraid. Just like the media nowadays, mass paranoia affects everyone. The media exaggerates how virtuallything might happen and society makes it a big deal before anything is in reality happening. They cause concern and stress upon themselves because of what the media says. The central theme that exists within the episode is that words are mankinds reatest weapon. I believe that words may not be able to physically hurt several(prenominal)one, but they can emotionally. Emotional pain is sometimes harder to endure than physical pain. In the area, some of the neighbors like Les Goodman are criminate of being a suspect because his car randomly turned on, while everyone elses didnt start. Though he has no effect on the aliens, a woman claims that she has seen him look up at the sky late at night, as though he is waiting for something. She thinks he is waiting for the aliens or something from outer space.Therefore Goodman becomes an immediate hesitation to all the neighbors. Everyone in the neighborhood is now much aware of him, claiming that his family isnt human, but aliens. The woman was being the real monster to society because she had no idea what she was talking about and jumps to conclusion about Les Goodman. Since she made a comment that didnt relieve oneself supported evidence, she dug Les Goodman into a hole, making people think he is an alien because everyone starts to believe her. This episode conveys propaganda to the audience. Everyone is sideline everybody elses opinion, and they are all being biased.Just like in real life situations, propaganda occurs in the media. We are informed about a occurrence persons point of view and their idea soaks up into our brain. Towards the end of the episode, all the neighbors are at their highest point of terrorization and fear. The mob starts to threat as the y see a shadow figure approaching their neighborhood. Charlie models the shadow to be a monster. Therefore, he starts to act malicious and grabs a gunslinger to shoot the shadow. Everyone comes near the monster and it turns out to be Pete Van Horn, who was one of the neighbors coming home from town.The lights in Charlies house randomly turns on and everyone starts to tell him that is he held responsible for the death of Pete. He is now accused of being a monster because of the electricity in his house turning on, and a murder of an innocent man. Charlie was trying to protect his people, but he ends up accidently shooting a person. Everyone starts to blame him for being a monster and throws rocks at him. He did something to help, but since someone said that he is a monster for killing and having his light turn on, he is evil.This shows that all of society is influenced to entertain the same viewpoint of a specific person, and sometimes they draw to come counter-information. This episode challenges social convention because society expects us to have the same perception as what the government wants us to think. The people living on Maple were so afraid of what was happening that they believed anything anyone said. Steve has a radio in his garage which he has been working on by himself, and they assume that he is working on an odd electronic related to the aliens. Steve was one of the first to be suspicious of Les Goodman.When Steve was blamed of being an alien, he becomes hypocritical and yells at the neighbors and tells them they are all standing out on the street to bawl out someone, and that they are all set to find a scapegoat. Steve knows the only thing that will happen to the neighbors is that they will all become obsessed with decision a scapegoat, and in result they are going to eat separately other up alive. Out of fear and panic, they all ruin themselves and severally other. Like social convention, Steve and Les have done something odd and diff erent, so they have been frowned upon.In the beginning of the episode, everyone on Maple Street seems happy and cheerful. It is sunny outside and kids are playing in the streets. Once it gets down in the mouther at night, the power is still out and in that location is no more light outside or inside. Everyone is victimization candles for light, there are no more children around, and the streets seem very dark and mysterious. The neighbors are portrayed as mobs. They all stick together and follow each other wherever one goes. This shows society believing one persons point of view. The people in the back of mob dont have much to say.Instead they just stand there and agree with the main person speaking because they are weak and do not have anything to say. Their faces have a shadow and it is dark surround all of them leaving making it very suspenseful. The darkness adds a more mysterious effect. The secretive aura of the darkness represents a hidden fair play behind societys lies th at are spoken to us. In the end, no one living on Maple Street was an alien. Though there really was an alien, the aliens believe that stopping a few machines, putting the street in darkness will ruin the neighbors without the aliens even being round the humans. The aliens assume that all the neighbors will pick on the most dangerous opposition and be prejudice towards the enemy and to others. But as this all happens, the neighbors most dangerous enemy is actually themselves. They destroy themselves by panicking and finding a scapegoat. Everyone is torn apart and no one knows or believes the truth. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men is said at the end of the episode. I believe this quote sums up the people living on Maple Street perfectly.Their suspicion destroyed the neighborhood to a point where an innocent life was taken. The people are all thoughtless and frightened and are lying just to protect themselves. fe llowship and society are easily manipulated when they are terrorized. The government tries to takeover some of societys weak minds and influences them to believe what is right and what is wrong. The community and society speaks before they think, even though sometimes it is not true. They create a monster to themselves because they are creating false facts for everyone to be concerned about.