Pete Van Horn's Monster

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In the story of “Monster are due on Maple Street”. The people on the Maple Street show distrusted of each other. The model will show what will happen the day after. The people with the gun is Charlie,who try to make someone confess who is alien,or or undercover for the alien,if they don’t confess he shoot them because something is wrong in the house. And one of the house has light on because alien are messing with it,which is the house that Charlie pointed the gun to. Then they will be people lying on the ground,guess who shot them? Charlie of course. Because their house has electricity before,and one of them is Pete Van Horn. Every house has something different because they have different personality,and they don’t know each other well. Finally,the

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