In the play, Monsters Are Due on Maple Street by Rod Serling, the characters’ actions and events advance the plot very effectively. The text states , “What was that? A meteor?” They are all very confused as to what is happening around them. If this never happened then the whole play would have never happened or go differently somehow. In All if they never saw the “meteor” then they would have just gone about their day. Then some more things happen on maple street and the plot continues. For example, the play states, “You killed him Charlie, you shot him dead.” I would consider this the climax of the story because when Charlie “accidentally” shot Van Horn they were only blaming one person for the deed until Charlie did this. Everyone was
