The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street Essay

Have you ever been part of a group that turns into a mob just from one person doing something that gets everyone doing the same thing? For some people this happened to them and could have got them in trouble. In the story, The Twilight Zone “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” and “All Summers in a Day.” These stories show a group of people that could turn into a mob. In the episode of Twilight Zone “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” by Rod Serling it shows how a group could turn into a mob with just one person starting something that turns into something bigger. In the story it demonstrates A town’s power goes out and they all go outside and they all start to talk about how everyone's powers of going out. So one person goes to another neighborhood to see if their powers out. Then all of a sudden a car turns on with none of it. When that happens, everyone starts to run over at the guy who owns the car and starts to act like a riot and start to yell at the man for his car turning on when there was no one in it. Then later, in the story it
In the short story, it shows a group of kids living on Venus are waiting for the sun. As the storylines go well they are waiting a girl named Margot, says to a boy that she hates living on Venus she wished she was back on planet earth and how she always saw the sun everyday. As a result the boy, William gets the group of kids, two waiting for the sun, to lock Margot in a closet and Margot didn't see the sun. When the kids locked Margot in a closet, she was crying and sobbing, but when they came back to let her out she was quiet and they didn't hear a sound coming from inside the closet. This shows that if you get a group of people to turn against someone it could turn into something a lot bigger than what they were trying to