“The Hitchhiker” Compare and Contrast Essay “The Hitchhiker” radio play and Twilight Zone episode are very alike, while also being very different. For example, when they are asking about hitchhikers in the area and the cook says that he hasn’t seen any, they both deny that they have seen a hitchhiker. Also, there is the same train scene, where their car gets stuck in the train tracks while they are trying to speed away from the hitchhiker. Another similarity is that at the end when, they call their mother the same Mrs.Whitney answers and states that their mother is in the hospital because, she had a nervous breakdown. One difference of the radio play and Twilight Zone is, that in the radio play Adam’s is a male and, in the Twilight Zone
