Tuesday, September 27, 2016

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., October 3rd, 2016.

26 comments:

  1. The episode of "Twilight Zone," represents xenophobia by making the people in the town fear a blackout in the town and makes the whole town's electricity fail including cars, and anything else that needed electricity. This makes the people of the town scared and start to feel paranoid about each other in the town because they do not know what is going on. Nothing alarms me but the peoples attitude is really exaggerated that one person actually shoots an innocent man. This story differs with other stories because it is the humans stupid decision making that causes them to fail and be scared of something so little.

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  2. In the series "Twilight Zone" one of the episodes called "Maple Street" one can see the idea of Xenophobia stated when the confused mob of people storm over to the one man assuming he is not human because his car started on mysteriously. The way the group acts is very frightened, very caught up in the moment, and also not really thinking of the scenario and are "jumping the gun". This episode align with story "Repent Harelquin" because it shows how people automatically act towards something they only know so much of.

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  3. In the series "Twilight Zone" one of the episodes called "Maple Street" one can see the idea of Xenophobia stated when the confused mob of people storm over to the one man assuming he is not human because his car started on mysteriously. The way the group acts is very frightened, very caught up in the moment, and also not really thinking of the scenario and are "jumping the gun". This episode align with story "Repent Harelquin" because it shows how people automatically act towards something they only know so much of.

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  4. In this twilight zone story it show a good example with xenophobia by the way the people reacted with something different and new in there world. The people in the story were not exemption to something new.

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  5. This episode of "The Twilight Zone", Xenophobia shows fear by each neighbor turning on each other. The fear blinds them from the reality and truth. This reminds me of the Salem Witch Trials and The Crucible. Because everyone only listened to a boy that read a comic book. Which is exactly what happened in the witch trials.

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  6. The people make assumptions about Les just because his car starts on it’s own. The mob mentality kicks in. Everyone goes after the person who is different. Xenophobia is obviously present in these people’s minds.They begin accusing whoever is doing something odd or different. There is no valid reason for any accusation they make. It eventually turns to chaos. In the end, we learn no one is guilty, so they created their own monster.

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  7. When the anomaly strikes the town, the populous turns on each other. They're more focused on their idiosyncrasy rather than solving what's happening. It's the unexplained that drives the force of scapegoating.

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  8. So far I have noticed that everyone thinks that the flash was a meteorite except a kid who read a bunch of books about aliens and everything. The kid said that there were people they sent ahead of time to fool everyone by disguising themselves as a human family. Then all these weird things keep happening like the there is a town power outage. The cars won't work. One person couldn't get his car to work and then it started and turned off by itself. The towns people started getting suspicious. I think this is a good way to show xenophobia because after seeing the flash of light everyone started acting weird and scared and suspicious of each other.

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  9. In this episode of Twilight, it shows how humans are quick to generalize and prosecute people. Things like this actually happened in history so it is not unlikely that something like this could actually happen. That's what is scary about an invasion from aliens is that the aliens don't need to confront us. They could use our insecurities and weakness against us theoretically.

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  10. This episode was meant to portray the mindset of America during the red scare. It portrays xenophobia by showing how when something normal like their electricity is subverted, people tend to look for a scapegoat, someone to blame for the sudden uncertainty. Xenophobia is shown here through that search for a scapegoat, in which people will look for anything out of the ordinary that will 'prove' that someone who's different is the cause of the problem

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  11. Twilight Zone, shows the Xenophobia because it talks about how something strange that starts happening and it start pointing fingers and talks about the fear of one another like a horror movie or like a scare movie. It like the witch trials and how it started

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  12. This episode of "The Twilight Zone" shows how xenophobia can harm communities, even if there is no obvious foreign threat. It was alarming how quickly people turned on each other, however it wasn't surprising in the least. Given how quickly man seems to turn on their own given the right amount of tension and uncertainty, it seems to be more a commentary on human nature, however xenophobia is a very heavy theme as well.

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  13. In the episode of The Twilight Zone called Maple Street, it clearly showed xenophobia. When weird things started happening in their neighborhood, everyone started to freak out and turn on each other. They pointed fingers at everyone who was even the tiniest bit different and even killed an innocent man because they weren't being rational.

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  14. This episode of Twilight Zone characterized xenophobia because all the inhabitants of Maple Street became very paranoid when they were told there was an alien among them. They turned on people that had been their neighbors for years and immediately tried to blame everyone. They took the smallest thing that would usually be considered normal and turned it into a reason to blame someone. This story reminded me a lot of Lord of the Flies, as well as the Salem Witch Trials.

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  15. The people of maple street slowly started turning on one another until they destroyed themselves because they were afraid of difference.

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  16. The Twilight Zone Episode: The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street addresses the issue of xenophobia by showing how people can turn against one another in a crisis situation. It was alarming to see how quickly this phenomenon occurred after the neighborhood's power had been shut off. A sort of mob mentality began to take over the neighborhood and people who had known each other for years began to gang up and single out certain individuals, such as Less Goodman. Everyone in the neighborhood was scared of someone among them being guilty, so they ganged up one certain people so that they, themselves, weren't suspected. This story reminded me a bit of the film Forbidden Planet because throughout most of the story, the audience does not know what the "monster" is - which causes a lot of fear and conjecturing.

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  17. In The Twilight Zone Episode: The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street xenophobia is a prevalent theme. Throughout the story the people on maple street begin to question their neighbors for a simple power outage. This spirals way out of control to them shooting an innocent neighbor from one street over. This shows how human behavior works in a crisis, flight or fight.

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  18. In the Twilight Zone: Monsters Are Due On Maple Street shows xenophobia by showing how people react to a power shut off. It was amazing how the people reacted towards the outage where they almost went crazy towards one another. Then they started to accuse others like Less Goodman for example. Less Goodman was accused for being different when one neighbor says she saw him looking up in the night sky in the early morning. This shows xenophobia by the neighbors being frightened by the activity Less Goodman is doing with outer space and other planets.

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  19. The Xenophobia in The Monsters Of Maple Street, is very particular. It is a rational and irrational. Even though there was not a direct threat.

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  20. This episode truly shows how us humans would react in any situation where something unknown or out of the ordinary occurs. We seem to turn against it due to the fact that we fear what may come, but if something good comes of it we find something to blame for our irrational judgements. Xenophobia is not just the fear of strangers, but the fear of anything unknown.

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  21. I thought that this story is a really cool one because the man is truly showing that he has authority when nothing else is going the way anyone else wants it to. But it is for him. I also think that it is cool that the men all are trying tp start a process to find out who the robot is!

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  22. I thought that this story is a really cool one because the man is truly showing that he has authority when nothing else is going the way anyone else wants it to. But it is for him. I also think that it is cool that the men all are trying tp start a process to find out who the robot is!

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  23. i was very alarmed by how fast the people in the hood jumped to assuming the worst about their neighbour. it really shows that if there is even a slight difference then the whole system can come crashing down.

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  24. This story is a perfect example of xenophobia because the townspeople fear what they do not know. They begin assuming that the power outage was caused by one of their own and turn against one another.

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  25. This Maple Street Twilight Zone episode was all about mass hysteria and how a group can hype each other into a paranoid frenzy. It is like sharks with a feeding frenzy, totally out of control. These people all turned on each other and on Les when his car started. It was totally unnecessary and their horrible response to their fears made the whole situation much worse.

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  26. The Twilight Zone Episode: The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street shows a perfect example of xenophobia it shows how fear of the unknown can cause people to turn on one another faster than you can blink what alarms me is how when les' car starts they assume the wort to me it shows when man is afraid he shows his true self

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