Monsters Due On Maple Street Play Analysis

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Have you ever felt as though you need change or do something to fit in? It’s ok, 90% of teens under the age of 18 admit to feeling and sometimes submitting to what’s called peer pressure. In the dictionary peer pressure is defined as: influence from members of one's peer group. People make decisions to try to fit-in, because they don’t want to be seen as an outsider.

In the play “Monsters Due on Maple Street” after Charlie has been forced up onto his porch. Rocks are being thrown at him. He’s not sure what to do. He didn’t want to be seen as the different person. Everyone was blaming him for being “sent down by aliens”. So, what was he to do? Blame someone else? That’s what everyone was doing to him. It must have been the right thing to

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