The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
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- One major theme of 'The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street' by Rod Serling is that blaming others and trying to find a scapegoat can lead to negative consequences. On page 81 Steve tried to calm everyone down, but Don Martin began saying Steve's wife had been telling people he did weird things. This describes how Steve just wanted to find a better solution and keep everyone calm. However, the group got annoyed and began to distrust him. This helps one see how desperate they were to blame someone, that they used irrelevant information to make him guilty even though they had been friends. Furthermore, on page 82 Charlie shot Pete Van Horn without trying to acknowledge who it was and everyone started accusing him of being the monster. This is important because he was so quick to blame everyone in the beginning, that once he shot Pete Van Horn, all of the accusations returned to him. The consequence he received because of his actions was that everyone began chasing him and throwing things to force him to talk. Moreover, on page 85 Charlie blamed Tommy for being the monster because he was the one who knew about them and informed the rest of the group. This reveals how having all the attention of being the monster caused Charlie to react out of his emotions and blame Tommy. In addition, by having another person to blame, the chaos continued and the conflict escalated. As you can see, the big theme of this story is, blaming others and trying to find a scapegoat can lead to negative consequences.
- The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street :Theme Blaming others and trying to find a scapegoat can lead to negative consequences.
- Your wife says you do weird things
- I didn't know
- What did you do
- It is Tommy
- What
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