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Summary Of The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
The events and characters actions in the drama, “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” by Rod Serling help the plot advance because without them the story would have hardly any way of moving forward. Examples would be in the beginning, middle, and end. In the beginning the thing that helped the story keep going was when Tommy said, “ Nobody could leave. Nobody except---Except the people they sent down ahead of them. They looked just like humans.” When he tells everyone that they start to become a little untrusting towards each other. In the middle when Les Goodman's car starts all by itself he becomes the first person to be accused of being with the aliens. Then at the end Charlie shoots Pete Van Horn and that was enough to make everything

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