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My idea for a theme for Monsters Due On Maple Street is that fear can change a persons judgement/opinion. In the beginning of the story there was a big flash or boom and then everyone's power simultaneously turned off. Everyone started questioning what was the problem but it led them nowhere seeing that their guesses really meant nothing based around their surroundings. Then Tommy tells Steve to not go which basically starts the whole situation involving fear because Tommy took a guess that it was aliens and that they wanted them to leave because they were aliens and everyone started second guessing each other. Now to prove my point is that when Les Goodmans car started everyone was going against him. They even explained that they have known
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