Rod Serling

Time usually changes people, for better or for worse. This depends on how others portray time. In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut wants us to understand that time is an illusion. This is similar to The Twilight Zone, “Back There” by Rod Serling because in this episode Pete Corrigan also saw time as an illusion. However, “Boy Goes to War” by Max Ritvo is in direct contrast to Vonnegut’s idea about time in Slaughterhouse-Five because reality hits the boy over time. The theme of time…

Lucy, The Ed Sullivan Show, and many more. Despite its popularity to both audiences in the fifties and in the current time, The Twilight Zone almost did not make it to the TV screen. The content for the show was based on a teleplay also written by Rod Serling called “The Time Element.” CBS did not agree to air Serling’s production until they saw the success of “The Time Element” in Desilu Playhouse by Bert Granet. Its episodes are twenty five minutes long, ranging from comedic to tragic. Though…

It has been more than five decades since “The Twilight Zone” aired on CBS, a groundbreaking TV show that combined the elements of science fiction, drama and fantasy. Popular for being ahead of its times, the creation of Rod Serling was hailed by critics and the audience also loved its twist and turns. And now the cult classic is back to the TV screens but with a difference. As per reports of The Wrap, CBS intends to bring some more twists while keeping the soul of the original series intact. It…

Outsiders” by S. E. Hinton, a story about a boy in a lower social class who gets involved in a killing which leads to the death of some of his friends and a social class fight. It is also supported by the play “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” by Rod Serling which is a story about a town in which weird events happen and chaos takes over. Also in the story “The Outsiders” by S. E. Hinton it shows how you can be part of a group and still feel alone if the group does not share the same ideas…

phrase, "Everyone belongs to everyone else..." This is what a dystopia may represent; repetition, repetition, repetition. Aldous Huxley produced a novel, Brave New World, that depicts a very similar, repetitious, and corrupt society. Likewise, Rod Serling does this in his television series, The Twilight Zone, episode “Number 12 Looks Just Like You.” Both societies are, all in all, absolute dystopias hiding behind a utopian mask. To the inhabitants, however, their society is everything they could…

The story of "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street," written by Rod Serling was originally a book but turned out to be an episode in the series of "The Twilight Zone". There are many similarities and differences between the two. In the TV episode that aired March 4, 1960, probably the most different thing is that Tommy (the boy that knew about what was going to happen. In the book, it is said that Tommy is a young boy about 8 to ten years old with glasses. Although Tommy wore glasses he…

In “The Monster Are Due on Maple Street” by Rod Serling, the actions and/or people in the act include important roles that make up the plot of the story. As quoted in the passage, "They look just like humans.” Tommy points out that these monster looks just like humans. After Tommy stated this, people began to panic and question who is the monster(s) by harassing other neighbors. Also the evidence in this section, “And he never did come out to look… Not even interested.” These facts demonstrates…

“The monsters are due on maple street” by Rod Serling is a teleplay that was made into a television show march 4 1960 and this is an essay about the difference and similarities between the teleplay and the television show. Some differences are the TV version had more emotion than the play, tommy did not have glasses in the show but did the play, when everything was going crazy and turning on and off the lawn mower started in the show but in the play there was no lawn mower in the play, when the…

In “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” by Rod Serling the characters and events advance the importance of the plot, but analyzing the plot is different. They do it through the characters thoughts, actions, and speech. The evidence in this selection is when Don said “He wasn't even interested.” to Charlie because when the unidentified flying object flew over Maple Street everyone looked except for the Goodmans. So everyone started to suspect that the Goodmans were the alien family that was…

In the play, Monsters Are Due on Maple Street by Rod Serling, the characters’ actions and events advance the plot very effectively. The text states , “What was that? A meteor?” They are all very confused as to what is happening around them. If this never happened then the whole play would have never happened or go differently somehow. In All if they never saw the “meteor” then they would have just gone about their day. Then some more things happen on maple street and the plot continues. For…