Rod Serling’s message to the readers of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” is to not accuse people without careful consideration. In the story a “meteor” flew above maple street. Everyone's power went dead, even the portable radios went dead. Then a little boy, Tommy started talking about aliens so everyone started accusing random people of being aliens. In the story les was the first to be accused when his car started automatically, but no one else’s car would start. I know this because In the text it says, “Maybe you better tell us. Nothing's working on this street. Nothing. No lights,no power, no radio. Nothing except one car - yours!” This shows that Everyone was accusing les goodman of being one of the aliens because his car started
