The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street Theme
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- The theme of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street by Rod Serling is that suspicion is destructive. An example supporting this claim is when in the story, after Les Goodman's car turned on, everyone banded against Les Goodman and accused him of being a monster. This shows how suspicion can be destructive because, while no one physically attacked Goodman, they nitpicked his idiosyncrasies and oddities, even attributing insomnia as evidence against him. Another example of this in the story is when an unknown man starts walking towards the group and Charlie shoots and kills him, Because of the fact that the man turns out to be the innocent Pete Van Horn, this shows how brutally someone acted just because of the fact that the man was unidentified and suspicious. The final piece of evidence is how the group turned into a violent mob fighting each other. With the sight being described as a nightmarish morass, it portrays the theme of the story very well because everyone was against everyone because people were convinced one of them was an alien. In conclusion, the theme of this story, suspicion is destructive, is very prominent in many scenes.
- The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street Theme: Suspicion is destructive.
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