Comparison Of Monsters And In The Andy Griffith

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In the story Monsters and in the The Andy Griffith show both of the fascinating movies have similar things happen, but they also have many different things happen in them too. The mood changes dramatically in both stories. Something happens to make the two movies change dramatically. In Monster all these friends are outside on a sunny Saturday having an extraordinary time when all the suddenly something goes over head. What the people think is a meteor is something extremely different than what you think. In the Andy Griffith show everyone is having a great time and then a stranger comes into town that nobody knows who he is, but he knows all of them somehow. In the stories that we have read and watched both of them have strange things that

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