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.“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”, by Rod Serling, the prompt is how are the character’s actions important to the plot and the reason why it’s important is because that without their actions the plot would change. One day on Maple Street everyone heard a noise coming from outside and everyone walked out there to see what it was. Steve thought it was a Meteor but they didn’t feel a boom or heard a boom. As quoted in the selection, Steve asked Don,”What was that? A Meteor?” Don said,”That’s what it looks like. I didn’t hear any crash, though, did you?” At this point, people started walking around and asking everybody, what was that, did you see that, what happened and lots of others. Whenever Thomas came in he started to explain what he

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