Respond Post To Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

Hi there,

Some days ago we, my classmates and I, read a story called Monsters Are Due on Maple Street in English class. Our job this week is to do a respond post to the story. Personally, I think that the message of this story is that when people face problems, they need to face the problem as a group instead of fighting and blaming each other. When people face the problems as an individual, usually, they always are trying to blame other person, a kind of scapegoat. At the end they are destroying themselves.

“Understand the procedure now? Just stop a few of their machines and radios and telephones and lawn mowers…throw them into darkness for a few hours and then you just sit back and watch the pattern. And this pattern is always the same? With few variations. They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find…and it’s themselves. And all we need do is sit back…and watch.” This was a conversation I got from the story. The conversation was between two unknown living things. As you can read in the conversation, our most dangerous enemy is ourselves. Also, in that little conversation you can get the message of the story.

I feel that this message is totally true. Usually, when we fight, we follow that procedure. When we fight we are kind of blind and we become desperate to find a scapegoat so people don’t blame us. It would be much better if we stick together as a group to face problems, this would stop or decrease fights and it would be much easier to solve problems.
This story was one of the series of a TV show created in the 1960’s. This TV show was called The Twilight Zone. I believe this message is still relevant in today’s world. People still fight, and almost all the times they fight as individuals so it’s the same thing as 46 years ago.

If I were to re-do this tele-play I would adjust some things to modern life, but the rest is just perfect. I know that right now our major fear are not aliens, but we fear them because we don’t know much of them, so that would be a reason why I won’t change aliens to thieves or terrorist. I think that I shouldn’t change anything and instead do another tele-play with the major fear in present days, so people can compare how the world has worsened or it has became better.