The Twilight Zone Themes

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An episode of “The Twilight Zone” is “The Monsters Are Due on maple St,” by Rod Serling. This Episode of “The Twilight Zone” Has some lessons or themes it in it we can still use today. The the theme that really stood out to me is that they were so fast to judge the residents of Maple St.

They were so fast to judge the family that moves into the street only two years ago. They were intending to hurt each other on that street just because of what the little kid said. The kid said that this happened in one of his comics books. Another example of when somebody was really fast to judge is when the handy man went over to the other street to check to see if the power was out. When he was walking back he was shot by a shotgun he died.

When

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