The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street by Rod Serling

MyHanh Nguyen

English 20-2

September 23, 2015

Fear Paragraph

In the play "The monsters Are Due on Maple Street", by Rod Serling illustrates the monstrous traits that lays within Human nature. The story takes place in Maple street on a quiet day when a "meteor" landed from outer space and bizarrely there is no sign of power after the occasion. In my reference to the play, the "real" monsters among them are actually themselves. Because of one's mistakes and wrong doing, this small event brought the whole entire street to nonentities. In the Story, Rod Serling reveals that after encountering an emotional and insoluble event, it is human nature to become distrust, careless, and to act cowardly, only to demolish their own community in the end. The first arriving traits is demonstrated in the story when they begun to distrust their neighbors. When the power outage first occur and nothing seem to operate until Mr. Goodman's car started operating by itself. Everyone accused Mr.Goodman to be the "monster of Maple Street". As a result, they aggressively everyone attacked Mr.Goodman with questions which are made up of superstition belief . If they truly trust their neighbors then this situation should've never been a concern. Terrors had caused them to distrust their neighbors. As humans we do not distrust our neighbors for the fact of an irrelevant event that had occur. By distrusting their neighbors and acting aggressively towards their neighbors had already developed them into a monster. Another equally important traits of there is acting carelessly towards their neighbors.