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The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street Play Analysis
In the drama, The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, Rod Serling does a fabulous job at showing how the character actions and events are important to advancing the plot.
The power went out on the whole street and Woman tried calling the Operator she said “Operator, Operator, something’s wrong on the phone, Operator!” and “Same thing over here. I can’t get anybody on the phone either. The phone seems to be dead.” This made them start to panic because nothing was working and the could not call anyone. Another example is when Steve was going to step on Goodman's porch he said, “Just stay right where you are, Steve. We don’t want any trouble.” and “But this time if anybody sets foot on my porch, that’s what they're going to get- Trouble.” They

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