The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street Summary

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“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”

What did the monsters do on maple street?! Monsters come to a street with nice neighbors that become violent, so they become the monsters themselves. The plot is not realistic in “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” because the aliens mess with the power, and the cars, Tommy’s mom did not take him home when everyone started to get irrational, and they assumed it was monsters messing with everything. To begin this story is not realistic because I do not believe aliens are real. It is very weird to have cars turn on by themselves and lights in the houses turn on and off by themselves. When all of the neighbors started to get irrational Tommy’s mom did not take

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