Wednesday, January 21, 2015

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street


 Rod Sterling, the creator of The Twilight Zone, wrote this episode, which he described as a suburban Lord of the Flies. In a comment left on this post, explain what you think this episode reveals about human nature.

  • 1 thoughtful paragraph will suffice.
  • Due before class on Friday (1/23)

39 comments:

  1. This episode of The Twilight Zone, "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street", is described as a suburban Lord of the Flies. Tommy, similar to a littlun from Lord of the Flies, warns of monsters from outer space after the power goes out and everything electronic stops working; reminiscent of the "beastie" from Lord of the Flies. Steve is sort of a Ralph-like character, acting as a leader and a voice of reason. Eventually fingers are pointed at everyone, and paranoia kicks in. In the end, it is revealed the aliens never even needed to go anywhere near Maple Street, all they needed to do was take away their power and their pirimal insticts kicked in. As the one alien said, "They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find... and it's themselves.", the same suggestion that was made in Lord of the Flies. This reveals that it is human nature to always expect the worst. It also reveals our own worst enemy is ourselves and we're so accustomed to technology, if it's taken away, we go crazy.

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  2. I feel like “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” is a good somewhat modernized understanding of the Lord of the Flies. Given today’s lesson about exactly what’s going on in Chapter 8 and 9 (minus the shock haha) the twilight-zoned interpretation really shows the madness and flaw in humanity. The boy in the show is much like one of the littuns warning everyone about the so called beast. Overall by taking away Maple Street’s power can be compared to taking away the civilization from the group of boys; by making a huge unwanted difference in people’s lives it can cause massive problems. People can over think and try to come to their own conclusions to rationalize what is going on around them, no matter how insane they may seem. All in all “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” truly give the audience an easier understanding of how human nature can make mountains out of mole hills if the conditions are right.

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  3. Rod Sterling's episode of The Twilight Zone reveals a thing or two about human nature. For one, it shows the effectiveness of finger pointing. During the Red Scare, people were accused of being communists, as if that were a bad thing, and sometimes forced to relocate out of the U.S. This even happened to Charlie Chaplin! People get scared and point fingers; in The Twilight Zone, they are accused of being aliens, in The Crucible, they are witches, in the U.S. of 1940s and 1950s, they are communists. It is human nature to point a finger. Moreover, The Twilight Zone shows how attached people are to electronics. One time, my parents were unable to pay the electric bills, probably because both are unemployed, and I was forced to live in a house without electricity for a few days. Did it suck? Yeah. Did I have to empty the refrigerator due to hot food? Yes. Was I hungry? Of course. Did I complain? No! I dealt with it. The electricity went out in The Twilight Zone and within hours there was chaos. What ever happened to baseball? No electricity is needed there. Maybe it never occurred to the citizens of Maple Street that books do not require electricity; as soon as the electricity went out, everyone decided to watch TV. Thus, it is part of human nature to be stupid. A little kid said that there are aliens living on the street. Maybe it never occurred to the citizens of Maple Street that the boy obviously had serious psychological problems. But instead of fixing those problems, the people just went plain crazy, even more so than the boy. Therefore, The Twilight Zone episode reveals that people like accusing each other of stuff, are attached to electronics, and are simply stupid.

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  4. There are many similarities between "Lord of The Flies" and "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street". But the behavior of the characters jumps right out of the two pieces. They show how people work and cope with difficult, harmful, and strenuous situations. One of the first things that characters did in both works was blame the person who looks venerable or most suspicious. This shows how sick people can be. People will go so far just to have some closure or a cause for something; they might even go as far as killing a neighborhood. Human nature can make people do crazy things.

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  5. "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" was a perfect example of how people will lose their sense of humanity as soon as society is changed. Eventually, without the boundaries of a working society, human nature starts to surface. It was made extremely evident, that everyone was looking for a scapegoat. All of the characters in the episode were pointing fingers at someone else. It didn't matter if they had known that other person for years; this was an existential crisis and there had to be someone to blame. As soon as the power went out, so did all the rational thinking. Instead of acting like civilized adults, these characters decided to listen to an imaginative little boy's story. Following that, they proceeded to actually believe him. Their destruction came next when everybody started linking small occurrences to something much bigger. This episode really showed the inner workings of the human mind. We all want someone to pin the blame on. We all open our minds to irrational fears and let them take over.

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  6. After watching the episode, ‘The Monster are due on Maple Street’; I can relate this episode to the vibe I get from “The Lord of the Flies”. For instance, this episode at the end, is basically, all the neighbors arguing, freaking out, and playing the “blame game” because they are nervous and scared about the electricity scare. However, when the episode was coming to an end, they reveal two ‘aliens’ controlling Maple Street and talking to one another; and one of the aliens says, “They pick the biggest enemy and they blame themselves...Let them destroy themselves, prejudice can kill, suspicion destroys, and their attempt to find an escape goat has a fallout.” This statement from the alien almost sums up the truth about human nature. Every character in this episode revealed the obvious human nature by blaming and turning on each other when times get rough. Which you can’t blame them because that is basically human nature; everyone doesn’t want to be thought of being an alien who is “destroying the earth”. I think of “The Lord of the Flies” when I watched this episode because of everyone arguing with each other about the fire on top of the mountain, hunting for food, or who should be chief. But the only difference is that they are children in “The Lord of the Flies”, therefore that means this type of human nature is just brought down generation to generation.

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  7. The Twilight Zone episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" revels some things about human nature. When we get scared, we will do almost anything. We will even create a mob in an attempt to convict any and everybody. We will even accuse our friends and kill them. In this Twilight Zone episode, the power went out and everybody was in a frenzy. Then, a little boy suggested that one of the neighbors was an alien. Since everybody was scared, they believed something a rational person would not. Human nature can make even the nicest person do a horrible things when they are scared.

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  8. Rod Sterling’s episode, The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street, not only is a suburban retelling of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies but also demonstrates a very specific aspect of human nature. As humans, we love to play the blame game. We like to put the blame on others so we’re not the ones being accused or in fault. We like to put the blame on others so we feel calmer about not being blamed ourselves. Scapegoats have been used all throughout history from the time of Ancient Greece to the Red Scare to even present day. In this episode of The Twilight Zone, we saw how each person would point their fingers to someone else once they were blamed. Also, the episode reveals how in times of fright, no matter how great or small they are, humans act irrationally. We get scared and rather than being calm and taking control of the situation we freak out which makes the situation worse. Such as how Charlie shot Pete van Horn out of fear of a “monster” coming from the dark shadows. The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street establishes the idea that human nature allows us to overreact on a minor situation, and in the shows case, the electricity going out.

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  9. I remember watching this episode back in 7th grade and being so intrigued. And now watching it again as a sophomore, I’m still intrigued! This is my first time reading Lord Of The Flies, and after re-watching the episode, I kind of understand it better. I would’ve never guessed it: The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street being a suburban Lord Of The Flies. Both tell a story of human nature, just in different ways. As people of this universe, we like to point fingers at someone else in a situation. We hate being blamed; we like being the blamer (is that even a word?). All because something is out of the ordinary, we’re so quick to assume the worst. Our daily routine, our structural life is sabotaged and we don’t know what to do. Ralph and Jack and all the other boys are fighting over the use of fire while the people of Maple Street are arguing over the absence of electrical power. It’s like a switch. When something goes wrong, our crazy side turns on. And when it does, our true nature comes out. The only enemy here is ourselves.

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  10. As a species we crave normality almost as if it's the stability in our lives that we seek so desperately. The twilight zone episode " monsters on maple street" shows how desperately we seek this normality, almost like a pack of wolves we attack the weakest members of the herd until the strong are left. The Lord of flies demonstrates how humans will begin to act as the walls of civilization begin to crumble beneath there feet. When we loose our lights, cars, and live in darkness we then resort back to our primal instinct by attacking any one besides ourselves to save our own skin ( just like the crucible). We are creatures that exist in packs, families, jobs, schools, etc.. As we live in these packs we always look to a leader just as wolves do, normally the most violent of the wolves becomes the leader just as in The Lord of the Flies how Ralph started off as chief but as they became more savage they made Jack there leader.

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  11. "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" and "The Lord of The Flies" are similar in many ways. In Twilight Zone episode the entire street turned on each other because all electronics shut off and started to flicker. This shows how quickly people turn on each other because they don't want people to accuse them. Ralph and Jack do this all the time. Ralph always blames Jack for not helping out with anything and Jack blames Ralph for not getting any meat. They have been stuck on this island for a very short period of time and these characters haven't seen eye to eye sense.

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  12. In this short film, a sense of primordial human nature is expressed. Since the dawn of mankind, we have been a species of war and fear. In the short film, "The Twilight Zone, " by Rob Sterling, a small community located in Maple Street U.S.A begins speculating about aliens after a sudden and devastating power outage. The community then retaliates at anyone who fits the story provided by the comic-indulging child. The community does so by either initiating a "stakeout," or by simply killing the suspect and vandalizing their home. This is very similar to "The Lord of The Flies," in a sense that the town represents the stranded children, and the aliens represent the "beast." Just as in the movie, the children pick the biggest enemy, the beast, and attack it, orally and later on, physically. This is how this episode of "The Twilight Zone", "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street", is described as a suburban " Lord of the Flies. "

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  13. In The Lord of the Flies, the boys embraced the change of setting and adults in their lives after some encouraging words from Ralph. But in The Monsters are Due on Maple Street, all the adults are immediately disliking the change.Both groups look up to a leader, Ralph for the boys, and Steve for the neighborhood. They tried to calm things and people listened, for a while. When someone opinionated walks in, they disturb the flow of things. Jack and Charlie caused commotion and people began to waver from their morals. When the fighting began, it was too late for anyone to be saved. People picked their sides and now it's war.

    Both stories show how fear changes people. People are scared of change. When things change, they adamantly fight. They lose their sense of reason. In general, emotions overpower logical thoughts and intelligence in the brain when it comes to humans.

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  14. After watching “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” it is clear to see that us humans are the monsters. The neighborhood slowly destroyed themselves because they had a selfish mind set. Everyone was so quick to blame a different person each time a light would flicker on or when a car started. This neighborhood was going insane. This episode is very revealing to human nature. Everyone is perfect in their own eyes and they could never be responsible for anything that goes wrong. The monsters are us because we continue to ignore the fact that we are not a perfect society nor are we perfect people. This video has a way of making me mad because in reality that’s how people see us. They see us as selfish people because we can’t accept flaws.

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  15. The episode of The Twilight Zone, "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" is similar to the book “Lord of the Flies”, it is almost an adaptation of the same story. The littlun being the young boy in the episode warning the “biguns” about the oncoming terror. At first it’s ridiculous but somehow they begin to believe something mysterious is actually occurring. The book as well as the episode reveal human nature and how the modern world has impacted us the most. When in doubt blame someone else. The blame game begins and there is no escaping the wrath of the pointing finger. If you not pointing you must be the beast if you are you must be the alien. There is no winning. Humans are built out of chaos and destruction, the evidence being all the wars that have made us to where we are. The Twilight Zone episode shows the insane attachments humans have to everything new and shiny otherwise known as advancing technology. Stranding of kids on an island is one thing but when close families lose power for a few hours it shouldn’t disrupt their entire trusts in one another. The book emphasizes as the beast being human nature, as we do tend to destroy everything in our paths for selfish reasons. It shows the enemy is not something to hunt and kill, the only one who can rid of it is one’s self.

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  16. I kinda skimmed the other comments and someone said something about finger pointing and something about human nature liking stability. I liked that. I, also, saw that everyone was attacking human nature but that's just it, why? Why attack nature? It's inevitable. Finger pointing (I think Bryan brought this up, so thanks bud) was a great point, but it's true. We are all pretty damn stubborn and who likes to take the fall for anything? I think we are all pretty protective people of our family and the ones closest to us which is good thing. Everyone on Maple Street was just trying to protect their family. I mean I feel like this was one of those "hide yo' kids, hide yo' wife" type situations like I would of just chilled at home until coast was clear. Now on stability. (I think this was Christian so thank you!) People hate change, stability is good. I don't mean to throw chemistry at you, but even the simplest structures like hydrogen and oxygen aim for stability (oh god, I need to get out more). Nothing's wrong with wanting stability. The people at Maple Street saw these changes as a threat (mostly because of that stupid kid, but whatever) so they were protective of their family. So what?


    ....Or something?

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    1. yeah. Even though i'm tired i got annoyed by my grammatical errors so i had to change it. night.

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  18. I hate it when you put on a pair of pants and when you look down, you realize that those aren't your legs... That might just be me, but this paragraph is about humans in general. In the movie, the characters were stupid, selfish, afraid, and did I stupid? They listened to the little boy. Sorry kid, but in the 21st century, nobody listens to kids. They'd think he's insane. Not because he's spurting nonsense about Aliens from outer space: but because he's obviously starved, his mother obviously dresses him, he has obviously seen "Grease," way too many times with his John Travolta hairstyle on "fleek", and he's got a face that screams, "I'm a tool, punch me!" Moreover, there's the point and blame thing that so many people have said. (yeah, it's human nature to cheat people, don't make it too obvious.) People are so selfish that they would rather save themselves than their humanity.(paraphrase) "I knew there was something up with that guy. He always was an oddball." Yeah, I've got a neighbor that always sits down in a chair and moves around with his hands. That doesn't make him an Alien!! The only thing he is guilty of is serving our country!!! And why are people so afraid of the unknown. "OMG, Why did the lights turn off!! Why did Bill's car start!! " They shot an old guy in the dark, for poops sake!! The movie was interesting, but I got more angry than interested. I'm just too tired for some reason to filter my thoughts. Alf out.

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  19. After watching "The Monsters on Maple Street" I can clearly see how similar it is to the "Lord of the Flies." Just like how in "Lord of the Flies" how a littlun tells everyone about the beast there was a little boy named Tommy in "The Monsters on Maple Street" who tells everyone what will happen from what he has read from comic books. "The Monster on Maple Street" is a clear example of how crazy people are and how far they will go to find an answer. It's just human nature to blame someone or something and to find an answer because we can't live with the anxiety of not knowing. These people killed and pointed fingers at neighbors that they have known for years just so there would be a reason for what was happening. The Twilight Zone episode shows how crazy people are and to what extent they will go to to try and figure out the cause of the issue.

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  20. The episode of The Twilight Zone, "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" portrays how the true enemy is his or her human nature. After the so called "meteor" sighting and power outage, people started going crazy as if this was the end of the world. Sort of like what other post apocalyptic characters from other shows/movies had to go through. For ex. Morgan Jones from Walking Dead after his son dies in hands of his wife. He said that good people dies and so do bad people, but weak people don't. They inherit the Earth. It was his weak nature inside of him that was speaking for him. Due to the loss of control over the human nature inside him, he became mentally unstable and let his weak nature take over himself. Now back to The Twilight Zone. Everyone lost their rational thinking and decided to listen to a boy who was either schizophrenic or just watched or read lot of fictional stories. Instead of being mature and civilized adults, everyone stupidly listened to the boy. Then everyone ,one by one, started accusing each other just because he or she did something that seemed suspicious. It is in one's human nature to doubt every suspicion and it is the rational thinking of the person that stops himself or herself from accusing every suspicious thing. Since they lost rational thinking, they also lost the ability to control his or her own human nature.

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  21. From what I can remember seeing this in the seventh grade, this episode was actually about the fear of communism in America. During that time period, people accused others of being communist. Now that I've watched it a second time, I can see how this episode also reveals something about human nature. In “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”, everyone was quick to blame one another. As soon as something unexplainable happened, fear and paranoia settled in. By blaming others, it was their way to solve what was happening. We as humans fear the unexplainable. When we don't know what is happening or what is wrong, we are overcome by paranoia and seek an explanation. It also shows how we are quick to blame others but not ourselves. When we don’t know whats wrong, we accuse other because we don’t want to be at fault but in all honesty who does?

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  22. What i thought this episode revealed about human nature was that a lot of people tend to follow who they think is right. For example, in Lord of the Flies Ralph stepped up to be leader and everyone just for the most part follows what he says and what he says to do. Also, if you think about it in a school way, people tend to wait for the most confident and smart person to present a paper or project first because they're afraid to be wrong and need that leader to take charge and show them how its supposed to be done. In this episode, it shows that concept where everyone just followed someone they thought could be right. As you saw though in the show, this concept doesnt always work out okay and sometimes ends really badly. It kind of reminds me of elementary school when they always tell people to not follow others and be a leader, and its probably because of the concept of it can end badly to follow someone we think is right, even if its only school related too.

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  23. There are many faults in human nature and they are clear in both “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” and “The Lord of the Flies”. In “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” everyone was quick to blame each other for the mysterious things that were happening. Once the meteor hit everyone went insane and pointed fingers like there was no other way to solve things. Adults believed a child with his words based off comic books, comic books…, and didn’t even second guess that what he was saying was false. It just proves that human’s first instinct is to go with what they hear and benefit it for themselves by destroying other people. Even in life now, we believe the first thing we hear even if it isn’t from a reliable person. We go into automatic shock and make things 10x blown out of proportion then they need to be. In “The Lord of the Flies” all the boys jumps to conclusions and get frustrated with each other. Instead of relaxing in any type of stressful situation, everyone always acts like everything is the end of the world.

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  24. This episode of The Twilight Zone says a lot about human nature. People change when placed in fearful situations or when paranoia settles in. You could see from this episode that peaceful people can change so quickly. Fear changes a person when scared one reacts differently. In this episode neighbors turned on each other even though they were all friendly with each other at the beginning. When in reality everyone needed to stay together and be a whole, but they began to tear relationships and blame. Mankind is its own worst enemy... It always seems that people create problems that were not originally there and in this case they made one. So, this episode shows how emotions not rational thinking is what controls human nature.

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  25. From seventh grade up until now I still find the episode "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" to be pretty interesting and it shows a plethora of the faults in human nature. You cant just live your life pointing fingers at everyone and not taking the blame for yourself. Sometimes it you have done wrong just admit to it. Blaming someone or something else for an issue is never going to solve anything. Just because something out of the ordinary happens does not mean you should start going crazy. In "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" just because an unexplained event happen they started to believe a little boy who was talking a bunch of hullabaloo. No one wanted to think rationally and they all just started blaming each other for the event. This relates to how "Lord of the flies" is and how they all have irrational thinking. No one wants to take one for the team, its all about pointing fingers and seeing who buckles under pressure.

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  26. In both "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" and "The Lord of the Flies", they show how easily people will turn into monsters without order. As soon something disrupted happens, people will turn on each other and blame them or accuse them for it. In "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street", once a meteor hit and electricity turned off, everyone started to be paranoid and accuse each other for being an alien. If Tommy (the boy) didn't talk about his stupid comic book, the episode would have taken a different root. One fake information turn a society upside down. In "The Lord of the Flies", most of the chaos is caused by Jack being leader. Only to be calm down by Ralph. In the episode, you can say that Steve can Ralph and Jack is Charlie. Overall, human nature can be deadly.

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  27. I remember watching this episode in 7th grade and I actually liked it.

    As Lucie stated earlier,““The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” is a perfect example of how people will lose their sense of humanity as soon as society is changed” In this case change means going wrong. Change is a big NO NO in today’s society. Anyways, when things go wrong, people instantly put the blame on someone else. Simply, because they don’t want to be accused or at fault. You could be a blood relative, close friend...anything, but when it comes to the “blame game” that becomes a non factor. For, example I have a younger brother, and we blame each other for things all the time. But blaming each other leads to fighting, which eventually leads to more blaming, then a little hating, and in the end we both suffer. The same concept applies to this episode. There was this ordinary American neighborhood with average looking people, going about their normal activities. Then, suddenly all of these strange things took place. In fact, life pretty much came to a halt, and everyone was left confused and worried. Initially, the community gathered out in the streets to see what was happening. However, in this sinister twist, people began arguing with each other and blaming one another for all the strange things that were taking place.

    This episode reveals how in times of fright, no matter how serious the situation is, humans act irrationally. People get scared and rather than being calm and taking control of the situation they freak out and make things worse. And in the end everyone suffers. That entire community was ripped apart all because of some stupid incident. Even, today we get all worked up about something and start going crazy. This goes to show that we allow irrational things to bring out the worst in us. So really the only enemy here is ourselves.

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  28. The first time I watched "The Monster Are Due On Maple Street", I was in seventh grade. I was told that this episode was actually about communism and how people kept trying to hunt communists down as if they were criminals. Back then, there was nobody that you could really trust because they could label you as a communist, and it wouldn't even matter whether or not their claim was true because people would believe them. In these type of situations, where people are scared of the "aliens" hidden among the, everybody wants to be safe from accusations or fingerpointing.It ruins any past relationships because people are selfish and their main priority will be to protect themselves. People believe in what they choose to believe in, and if that "truth" benefits them, then they will definately believe in it. That's why once someone is suspected as being an "alien", nobody will protect them. Also, people always have a side of themselves that they never actually show to anyone else. It's reasonable to be scared of other people, even your friends and family, because they may in fact be an "alien" that nobody knows about. No matter how much trust you have in someone, it doesn't mean that you actually know what they are like inside and out. You only see what people want you to see.

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  29. In"The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" it's shows a big flaw in humanity. In the movie we saw that the so called "aliens" turned the power off in the neighborhood and this called a huge ruckus. People were blaming other people for being alien like and didn't even realize how crazy they seemed. This just goes to show how people can be so fast to believe anything when something doesn't seem right. It is kind of sad but once something happens out of the normal we as humans like to find an answer as to why it happened and people will do anything to find an answer even if it's nonsense. I think the movie showed me most that human nature is so gullible and will believe things so quickly without any real evidence behind it.

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  30. In an episode of The Twilight Zone entitled, "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street", a neighborhood has a strange occurrence with all of their electric appliances. This causes everyone to become suspicious when other people's things start to power up, causing mass murder and chaos. Well, there could only be one reason why you chose for us to watch this; it's extremely similar to Lord of the Flies. Tommy, the boy who told of the aliens and their plan, is like the youngun that told everyone about the Beast. Charlie, quick to judge and kill, is most like Jack. Sal? Was his name Sal? Well, the leader that was then turned on (heyyyy chapter 8 or LotF!), is like Ralph. Wow, didn't know it was legal to have something so similar to a well known story!

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  31. The "Monsters are Due on Maple Street" was a good example of what people are capable of especially when they are scared. The people of Maple Street thought that this mishap of the power going out was caused by someone possibly in the neighborhood. They also thought whoever did it was capable of worse things also considering that these people could be aliens, but little do the people know that they are turning into monsters themselves because they are scared and they will do whatever they can so the blames not on them and they do not get harmed. The problem is they will probably have to blame someone for it so they will try whoever they can. This shows you how we are willing to give up are morals so we as our own can be safe and secure. What is sad is this is most if the world we live in everyone is out for themselves and as long as the problem is fixed they could careless if a person gets hurt in the process. Compared to "Lord of the Flies" the difference is that there are kids instead of adults becoming out of order you would think adults would be more mature and handle it better but no, it's just the result of human nature it's still interesting how there seemed to be only one man that tried to be rational about everything but he was unsurprisingly knocked down by the rest. Overall I think it was a good episode and fits very closely to the book we are reading now.

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  32. Although I first compared this movie to communism and the Cold War, I now realize that this episode of the Twilight Zone has a lot in common with The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. In The Crucible, the fear of "witches" destroys the organization of the characters' everyday lives. They then started blaming each other. Similarly, in "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street", the characters are easily frightened by odd things happening to their technology. For example, the power goes out in the whole neighborhood and everyone comes outside to look for a solution, or really- something to blame. Then one character's car starts, giving the others a perfect opportunity to blame someone. As you can see, a part of human nature is "blame" due to the fact that humans, in general, are self absorbed and need to have a solution to the problem that doesn't end with themselves.

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  33. The people in Monsters on Maple Street believe that there is an alien, or monster, out to get them. They freak out so much that they end up accusing each other of being that monster and begin to turn completely against one another. In reality, there was no monster besides themselves, humans. Similarly, in Lord of the Flies, the boys believe that there is a beast on the island and they feel threatened by it. In reality, just like in Monsters on Maple Street, human nature is the only beast they encounter. They too are turned against one another simply because they fail to realize this.

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  34. In monsters on maple street, the power goes out and all the people think it is because of some alien coming for them. Each person was so afraid and ended up blaming innocent people for this issue. They accused people of not being a real person but an alien disguised. When no one was actually an alien. Everyone just blamed each other for the power out and just went crazy. This shows how human nature really is. Humans are selfish and are quick to blame anyone as long as it's not themselves. For example, in the Monsters On Maple street. People are so quick to judge others and it's just human nature to protect yourself and blame someone else.

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  35. The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street is, not only, one of the most well known “The Twilight Zone” episodes, but also one of the best. This episode captures precisely what was happening around the time of Rod Sterling...communism. Sending a powerful message on how communism can destroy us all if we allow it, considering back then, everyone accused each other of being a communist, causing major complications and cases of discrimination. All of the characters accused each other of being an alien, simply because they wanted to protect themselves and halt the possibility of being accused as well, exactly how individuals from the 50s and 60s treated on another.

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  36. In the episode from the twilight zone, "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street," the monsters are really the people. When everything went haywire the people broke down and started accusing everyone. They would do anything to get the blame off them and would even kill if that helped. This describes human nature because even today no one wants to be blamed. Now some may not kill to get the blame off them we will put our friends down to make them look bad so they start to get blamed. This is a horrible trait we have and need to fix. Own up and take responsibility

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  37. This episode of the twilight zone, "Monsters are Due on Maple Street." It shows how human nature works, along with selfishness and greed. Nobody could really seem to accept the fact that something bad has happened and they can use eachother's help to survive. The guy who killed everyone over water, and supplies realized as he was walking he saw telephone poles, and he later found out he was actually just in the desert and that the ship hadn't actually even left earth. They were too quick to judge eachother and couldn't play the game fair so it ruined their society in this situation, and it could've been looked at in a much better manner.

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  38. In this episode of "Twilight Zone:The Monsters are Due on Maple Street", the people on Maple Street believe that there is a killer among them and quickly turn on each other. This reveals a lot about human nature. It shows how quickly people turn on each other in times of trouble and how people will do anything to protect themselves. It also proves that people don't think before they act. They start to kill their neighbors without figuring out who was responsible for what. They are proving that human nature is corrupt.

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