Analysis Of The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street

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“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”, by Rod Serling. The Characters are very important to the events in the plot happening in the story. “No doubt it did have something to do with all this power failure and the rest of it. Meteors can do some crazy things.” The evidence in this section is that these sentences were moving through everyone's minds because they didn’t want to believe anything else to where it would freak them out. “I don’t understand. I swear...I don’t understand. What’s happening?” These characters feelings are shown by these statements of how Goodman was the most suspected character in this story because of how he was the first one that started all the crazy drama with his car acting up. “You sound real anxious to have that

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