Thursday, September 25, 2014
Xenophobia On Maple Street?
How does The Twilight Zone Episode: The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
address the concept of xenophobia? What alarms you regarding the
inhabitants actions and attitudes? How does this episode align or differ
with stories we have already read? Other thoughts? Please respond by
2:30p.m. on Mon., September 29th, 2014.
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How the concept of xenophobia are addressed in this episode of the Twilight Zone is that characters are shown to be paranoid. Maple street seems like a family oriented neighborhood where people live peacefully and no big events happen. When mysterious things begin to happen, such as a power outage and automobiles not turning on, people began to become paranoid of each other. The characters begin to blame each other saying their is some one who is from outer space. It seems like they are not used to outsiders from other places. At the end of the episode, they begin to not trust one another. This episode is a little bit different from The Puppet Show because in the short story, it is unclear if the soldiers passed test of xenophobia while the neighbors on Maple street became instantly xenophobic to each other.
ReplyDeleteThe Twilight Zone Episode: The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street portrayed an extreme reaction with xenophobia. Citizens are scared by the outsiders and turn to accusation in order to satisfy their questioning thoughts. Xenophobia shows that even the friendliest of neighbors can be the most dangerous murderers (i.e. When one of the neighbors is shot dead). It shows a message; when we are inhabited by others, we tend to become a little psycho. Things out of our social circle cause us to be confused and then turn to extreme acts to satisfy our thoughts. Unlike the other stories read in class, in this movie, we experience the extremities of xenophobia. The other short stories show that aliens are scary and we must be cautious, but this story showed that being cautious resorts to killing.
ReplyDeleteI think how Xenophobia was expressed in this story is how people changed to act around their neighbors, people they have known and got along with for a long time. They turned into complete maniacs after they thought that someone was an alien, every neighbor just started to care for only their self and their families. It was a free for all. That is also what alarmed the most about this, each neighbor going after each other after realizing that they could be in danger without realizing the danger was right above them. The episode aligns with "Forbidden Planet", the aliens had the same costumes and Sales Pitch with the whole space concept.
ReplyDeleteXenophobia is addressed in the short film "the twilight zone: the monsters are due on maple street" in a way where the neighbors were accusing each other of being the cause of the power going out in the neighborhood. This was xenophobic because they treated each other differently when they were accused of being a monster/alien. This is alarming because all the trust the neighbors had for each other just disappeared as soon as they were accused. This related to the card activity because it showed how xenophobic people might treat each other.
ReplyDeleteIn "The Twilight Zone: The Monsters are due on Maple Street", xenophobia is addressed in a way that depicts neighbors turning on each other due to suspicion of someone different then them. This is not what I expected. because just before this all the neighbors are shown as friendly, kind, and loving of each other. This is different than in Puppet Show where humans are accepting of their extra terrestrial friends.
ReplyDeleteXenophobia is addressed in "The Twilight Zone: The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" because they all get along for a long time, and then when they are told one family are aliens then they all freak out. It's alarming because they all trusted each other prior to them knowing this and then they lost all trust with each other. It relates to "Puppet Show" because they were fine until the second test, then they started saying completely differently things about the subject.
ReplyDeleteThis episode of "The Twilight Zone" addresses the concept of xenophobia by showing how the citizens of Maple Street were fearful of the unusual. In this case, the unusual was how technology stopped working properly. It alarms me that neighbors that have known each other for years turned on each other alarmingly quickly. This relates to other stories we've read because it very well demonstrates xenophobia, and so do the other stories.
ReplyDeleteThis episode of "The Twilight Zone" addresses the concept of xenophobia by showing that the people who lived on Maple St. were afraid of a strange new thing that was happening on their street. What alarmed me about the actions of these people is that they were so quick to blame one person for the crime. This episode aligns with "Puppet Show" by displaying how when something new changes a very natural routine things get very hectic
ReplyDeleteThis particular episode of the Twilight Zone demonstrates xenophobia by showing how the people reacted to what was strange and unknown. They were quick to be reckless and blame people out of fear. It alarms me that the people turned on their own neighbors so fast. People they knew and were always around were suddenly the enemy. The ending line from the aliens gave me chills they said "if the humans keep doing what they're doing they will destroy themselves." That struck a chord with me because it's so true, we are not open to the unknown and thus react violently most of the time.
ReplyDelete"The Twilight Zone Episode: The Monsters are due on Maple Street" addresses the concept of xenophobia by the inhabitant's overreaction of an unusual thing that happened on their street. I did not think it was worth it to fight and blame and each other, which was what really surprised me. I thought it was suspicious how they have all known each other for years, and they suddenly become enemies. I think the episode aligns with "Sales Pitch" because the humans in both stories are emotionally affected by the fasrad and the creature that has caused so much commotion in a neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteXenophobia is the fear of change or of something strange and the people of maple street are afraid of monsters invading them. an "alien" ship appeared overhead and frightened everyone. This episode of "The Twilight Zone" explains how humans are to quick to react to change and I believe that this is fairly accurate.
ReplyDeleteThe Twilight Zone sets a great example of xenophobia. The sighting of the "meteor" sends fear through confusion. The neighborhood has never heard or seen anything like it. When the boy tells them of the story he has read, most of the adults are frightened because it sounds eerily similar to their situation. By the end of the story everyone is pointing fingers and ready to kill. This was a good example of xenophobia.
ReplyDeleteXenophia is demonstrated very well in the "Twilight Zone". Xenophobia is showed by when the whole neighborhood was so quick to accuse the someone in the neighborhood of being an alien. Everyone decided that when one person was doing something differently they automatically decided that they were the ones to be ousted. In previous stories, if someone was different they were welcomed, but in the "Twilight Zone" anyone who seemed different was avoided.
ReplyDeleteTh Twilight Zone is a great example of xenophobia. Many of the characters were instantly scared after the "meteor" went over the street, and the power was shut off. The characters were quick to blame others after some weird things started to happen in the neighborhood. This shows how humans react to change, and are xenophobic to things they are not comfortable with.
ReplyDeleteThe Twilight Zone episode demonstrates xenophobia because the people were afraid if there might be a monster or alien and who it might be. They were scared of something different happening to them or their world. It alarms me how ridiculous the people acted and how their actions were so forceful due to a thought or an idea that wasn't proven true. This story relates to other stories I've seen because the people fear extraterrestrial and become so afraid they turn on each other and become a self destructive race.
ReplyDeleteXenophobia is fear of change or strange things outside the boundaries of "normal" in life. After watching the monsters on maple street it gives and interesting view on xenophobia. How mob mentality and peer pressure can motivate for lack of a better word a situation. How people who where neighbors and friends for years, could just turn on each other because of a simple sentence. It mirrors many other situations in history such as the cold war fear and the Salem witch trials. Its interesting how people and other species can suddenly become afraid each other over ridiculous situations
ReplyDeleteThe movie "The Twilight Zone" was an example of xenophobia. The people on maple street were scared and were quick to react that someone in the neighborhood was messing with them. So they kept on pointing fingers at each other cause of the fear they had. The whole show had xenophobia in it.
ReplyDeleteI feel like The Twilight Zone sets a great example of xenophobia. Xenophobia is fear of people from other countries, or other planets. In The Twilight Zone, the so called 'meteor' caused a hysteria of what could be in it. Or who could be in it, to be exact.
ReplyDeleteThe Twilight Zone episode exhibited xenophobia because the people were scared of the aliens that came but they really didn’t even know where the aliens were. This turned against them and they practically went crazy over something that didn’t even happen. They were afraid there was an alien amongst them but they didn’t even know who it was so they just assumed the worst in everyone. They were scared of something that was made up in their heads.
ReplyDeleteThe film "The Twilight Zone Episode: The Monsters are due on Maple Street" shows the idea of xenophobia by the way the neighborhood goes haywire over something unusual that happened on there street. When the boy suggest there are aliens that blend in with the people and can jump into anyone's body, all the neighbors go bezerk and blame each other. I think that shows xenophobia because over a little change they become scared or defensive over the idea.
ReplyDeleteThe Twilight Zone has quite the example of xenophobia. Everyone sees a meteor, and then the power goes out. This causes a mass hysteria, and sends fear through everyone. It surprised me when only after a few hours, people started getting shot and houses were getting smashed. The fear of the unknown gets to people extremely quickly, and causes us to tear each other apart. Other stories we have read were not quite this extreme, but had elements of fear.
ReplyDeleteI find it shocking, but at the same time predictable. As soon as something mysterious happens the people of Maple Street jump on each other like wild dogs so no one thinks its them, when in fact its none of them at all. Similar to a book I read in school, The Salem Witch Trials, they do the same thing as The Twilight Zone. No one wants to be the culprit which always ends negatively.
ReplyDeleteThe inhabitants on Maple street show many characteristics of xenophobia, mainly by alienating their own neighbors in fear of the unknown. Many characters in the story also took to blaming others based on random events, using mob mentality to gain power in the group. This really shows that when we don't understand something, we try to find a reason why it happens, even if it is irrational.
ReplyDeleteMaple Street is a good example of Xenophobia. When the "meteor" flew over the street, the people started freaking out. Everything basically stopped working. The boy told everyone a story from something that he read. That made everyone freak out even more because that was like what was happening. Everyone was ready to kill anyone who was accused. At the end the aliens were ready to go do it to another neighborhood. Maple street was a very Xenophobia neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteThis episode of the twilight zone I believe is a little bit over exaggerated. Even during the cold war era you would think that civilized humans especially friendly neighbors would not kill each other over a power outage. Anyway Xenophobia is shown here by how uninquisitive the residents of Maple Street are about the "meteor" I think as humans we do not want to be scared or xenophobic so they shrug it off and call it something familiar. Xenophobia literally drives these people insane because they don't know what is causing these events or how to deal with them so that they retract their learned behaviors and go back to their savage nature of protect yourself and your family. this episode is a great example of xenophobia and shows some of its effects.
ReplyDeleteThe concept of xenophobia is shown in this episode of the twilight zone because people saw things that were unusual to them and became frightened. This episode also did a great job of showing how xenophobia can at times become a "mob mentality." They are quick to find the small idiosyncrasies in their neighbors and associate them with something that should be feared or wiped out. The fact that everyone seemed "normal" with houses and white picket fences added an eerie feeling to the whole episode.
ReplyDeleteXenophobia is shown in this episode of the twilight zone because everyone on maple street was paranoid that someone was different and they didn't come from earth. It was shocking to see how fast everyone turned on each other and how they all started to yell at one another and how they were blaming each other, even though before all of this happened, they were loving neighbors.
ReplyDeletethe concept of xenophobia is shown in the episode of the twilight zone because they were very paranoid about people even there long time friends.
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