Rod Serling's The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street

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Rod Serling’s message to the readers of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” is Don't accuse people without any evidence. The theme begins to appear in the story when One time this happened in the episode is when charlie shot pete van horn because he thought pete was a monster ,another time was when steves car started all by itself they accused steve of being a alien. In the text it says, “It's...it's the kid. It's Tommy. He's the one.“ but the tommy said at the beginning that, “It's always that way, in every story I ever read about a ship landing from outer space.“ This shows that, they just accused tommy because he knew what would happen from his book and they blamed him for knowing what would happen. They should be blaming the book .Later

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