Monsters Are Due On Mapple Street

In Monsters Are Due On Mapple Street, at the end of the story, the aliens said a few words. What the aliens said is that you only needed to take a few of their radios, telephones, and other machines and leaved them in the dark for a few hours and they would go crazy. They also said that their worst enemy is themselves; they mean that while they go crazy, they start accusing each other and trying to find a scapegoat. The aliens only needed to sit back and wait for the people in Mapple Street to destruct themselves by fighting between each other. The narrator says that you don’t need massive weapons for destruction and conquering, only thoughts and ideas could work.

I think that Rod Serling is totally right. You can have control with ideas and attitudes. I think Monsters Are Due On Mapple Street is a very good story if you think very well. You have to understand it to like it; for example, I like how the Aliens took control by making them to fight between them, it is a good strategy and was well done. People are their worst enemy; I think it may be true for some people, the people who don’t think very well. The very intelligent people who think and can control themselves, wouldn’t have the problem in the story. This is how it would affect the people today; it depends on their intelligence and knowledge.

Today, that would be very difficult to happen. Know the governments have radars and very advance technology who could detect any strange object in the sky. Suppose that nothing detects a strange object or spacecraft; if it happened in a very big city, you couldn’t do how they aliens did, street by street. If you where making that in a big city, you would have to make it in the entire city at once. It would be more difficult but the chaos would be greater. Today, if the same happens, it could damage equipments like: cars, boats, airplanes, TV’s, telephones, Computers, Internet, radios, satellites and much more things. Today people know more about aliens and U.F.O's than what they knew in 1950's. Today, Tommy's source of information could be T.V or Internet, not comic books.