Monster Are Due On Maple Street Quotes

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In the “Monster Are Due On Maple Street “by Rod Serling, the events or character actions lead to the plot of the play, if these things haven’t happened, the ending won’t be the same. Something flew across the sky over the Maple street and they thought it was a meteor or an airplane .“That’s what it look like. I didn’t hear anything”.This is a good example of what flew across the sky that made the power go off on Maple Street. Everybody started to freak out . “Steve the power went off...the soup is on the stove”. These quote demonstrate that the power when the power went off on Maple street. “You killed him Charlie”. “You shot him cold dead”.This quotes indicates that Charlie killed Pete Van Horn but he did it by an accident.

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