One major theme of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street Theme by Rod Serling is to Trust Others. I chose Trust others as my theme because on page 76 Les Goodmans car turned on and off on its own without no one touching it making everyone think that he was some sort of alien and so if people just trusted him then they wouldn't have blamed him for something that he had nothing to do with. Before his car started he tried to turn it on numorious times and it never worked and suspiciously right as he was walking away to regroup with the other people his car started without anyone being near him or the car and while everyone saw les walking away from the car making it quiet ovyous that he was not the one who turned on the car. Next, on page 82 Charlie takes the shotgun out of steve's hand because when they saw a dark figure walking towards them charlie didn't think anyone would actually do anything about it since it could have been an alien so he takes the shotgun and shoots at it out of complete fear and ends up killing Pete. If he would have just trusted him then steve would have waited for pete to come out in the dark and not have killed him that night. Finally on page ## after people see Charlie shoot pete like I stated earlier they start to turn on him and he ends up having everyone end up blame Tommy for being the alien since all the guesses to what the aliens were doing were suspiciously accurate and made a lot of sense to the group. if they would have just trusted that tommy wasn't an alien and at least tried to get more proof then they wouldn't have turned on him and blamed him for it. In conclusion that is why I chose Its important to trust others as my main theme for The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street Theme.
Les's car starts without anyone touching it making people suspicious of him being an alien since his car was the ONLY one that was able to even start and then they start to turn on him. (PG: 76)
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street Theme: Its important to trust others.
Charlie kills Pete out of complete fear because he didn't trust that anyone would do anything about the dark figure walking towards them thinking its an alien. (PG: 82)
They all started to blame Tommy because his ideas that he had about what was going on seemed like they were suspiciously accurate and realistic to actually happen. (PG: ##)