Liana Ananeva The Monsters are Due on Maple Street copy

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The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street Theme: Mankind is it's own worst enemy
One major theme of "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" by Rod Serling is that Mankind is it's own worst enemy. One example that supports this theme is when Steve and Tommy try to help, just in their own ways, Steve trying to get to the police and Tommy explaining what's going on, but later get called aliens and monsters by their neighbors, who make them their enemies (pages 670-671). Another example is when Charlie shoots Pete Van Horn, not knowing what he was doing and who he was shooting, thinking it was a monster, and makes Pete his enemy by taking his life (pages 682-683). Lastly, in the end of the story, everyone's lights and cars start turning on and off, and all the residents of Maple Street start turning on each other, attacking and killing everyone in sight, and calling everyone except themselves the enemies (pages 683-684). And just like that, everyone on Maple Street ended up dead, just like all the other people from all the other Maple Streets the aliens attacked. In conclusion, ma nkind is its own worst enemy is one of the best themes for the story by Rod Serling, "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street".

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