Rod Serling’s message to the readers of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” is fear can control people and make them have bad decision.The theme begins to appear in the story when Les Goodmans car was the only thing that started on the block. The neighbors started to accuse him of being a alien, making les back up on to his porch.In the episode it shows, when the mobb was chasing after charlie, one of the neighbors through a rock at him to try to knock him down or to impale him. This shows that when one of the neighbors through the rock at Charlie their intentions were to knock him out to get answers. The reason they did this is because their fear drove them to try to stop the evil entity so they can stop being afraid.Later in the story,
