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The Andy Griffith Show Analysis
“The Monsters are due on Maple Street” and “ The Andy Griffith Show” are alike and different. They both are paranoid and suspicious. They both have a problem with some type of alien phenomenon.They are different because in “ The Monsters are due on Maple Street” they want to find out who in the town is helping the aliens.They are also different because on “The Andy Griffith Show” they want to find out who the new person in town is and if he is an alien.”The Monsters are due on Maple Street” and “The Andy Griffith Show” are alike and different.

They both are suspicious and paranoid.In “The Monsters are due on Maple Street” the power goes out and nothing works and people start getting paranoid and suspicious that one of the citizens might be an alien.In “The Andy Griffith Show “ a new person comes into town and he knows everything
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They are scared of the stranger in town because he knows everything about them.They start to follow him around but it turns out that he is just an ordinary person. In “The Monsters are due on Maple Street” they are trying to find out who it is that is helping the alien, unlike in “The Andy Griffith Show” they want to know if the stranger is an alien.They are different because on The Andy Griffith Show” they want to know what the stranger is doing there and if he is an alien.

“The Monsters are due on Maple Street” and “ The Griffith Show” are alike and different. They both are paranoid and suspicious. They both have a problem with some type of alien phenomenon.They are different because in “ The Monsters are due on Maple Street” they want to find out who in the town is helping the aliens.They are also different because on “The Andy Griffith Show” they want to find out who the new person in town is and if he is an alien.”The Monsters are due on Maple Street” and “The Andy Griffith Show” are alike and

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