Tuesday, September 26, 2017
"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 2nd, 2017.
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It addresses xenophobia because the inhabitants are terrified of an alien that they can't even prove is there. It alarms me that they were so fast to shoot somebody. It differs because it doesn't really show any extrapolation up until the very end when it shows the aliens watching the chaos that they have started.
ReplyDeleteThe Twilight Zone addresses xenophobia in that it demonstrates that people become very unreasonable when dealing with the unknown. They no longer think rationally, but only in terms of saving themselves. The thing that alarmed me the most about the inhabitants actions and attitudes was how easily they turned on each other. They even accused the young boy of being an alien, and chased him down the street. This story aligns with the idea of fear with the unknown. It does differ from "Puppet Show" in that in that story the humans were fairly calm when dealing with the potential aliens, but in this episode the humans reacted very negatively.
ReplyDeleteMaple street showed xenophobia because everyone was afraid of aliens, and they did everything they could to point a finger at someone. It was alarming that the people didn't care if they knew someone, they were just desperate to point a finger. This aligns with the stories we have been reading, and in the movie, it was all fear of outsiders.
ReplyDeleteThis addresses the idea of xenophobia because it talks about how the people on maple street were scared of the idea of an alien specie and that they became very defensive and would do whatever they can to save themselves knowing someone was near them
ReplyDeleteThe episode of Twilight Zone addresses Xenophobia in a much more violent way than other stories like Puppet Show. It shows a true fear and terror over the idea of outsiders among them, causing them to have miniature Kangaroo Courts that end with the town tearing itself apart.
ReplyDeleteThe twilight zones episode addresses the concept of xenophobia because everybody was so scared of somebody else being an alien. This episode differs with puppet show because people in puppet show were oped to the alien and in maple street they were not.
ReplyDeleteThe poeple of mapel street think one of them is an alien that is messing with them
ReplyDeletebecause they are scared they end up fighting and shooting a man
The Twilight Zone Episode: The Monsters are Due on Maple Street addresses xenophobia very well. Xenophobia is the fear of the unknown (aliens, new places, etc.) In this episode, there is an experiment that is conducted to show how humans get scared and irrational when the unknown is upon them. It alarms me that everyone started blaming one another just to get a resolution. This episode align or differ with stories we have read because things that are out of the norm makes people freak out. Many stories have this factor.
ReplyDeleteI think that the short film exhibits xenophobia because the people on Maple Street hear a weird noise and then all of their power went out. At first they thought it was just a power outage, but as some one gives the idea that an alien family had been placed on the street. Everyone start freaking out as they are trying to figure out who that alien family is. This shows xenophobia because they are scared of this "family" that were watching over them. They were scared that they were in trouble, so they were scared there were extraterrestrial being in their neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteThis twilight zone episode addressed the concept of xenophobia by having all the citizens of maple street afraid of the neighbor who they know least about.
ReplyDeleteThe Twilight Zone episode addresses the concept of xenophobia by addressing the people that live on maple street by striking fear into them and making them turn against each other. What alarms me is how the people of maple street are so quickly to point at each other for blame.
ReplyDeleteThis episode of Twilight Zone addresses Xenophobia because it shows people's fear of outsiders, or in this case aliens. When individuals feel threatened with the unknown, they do whatever they deem necessary in order to regain the feeling of safety.
ReplyDeleteThe Twilight Zone episode addresses xenophobia by showing the concept of fear. It shows that when someone finds out about something unknown, they are quick to jump to conclusions and it spreads throughout a community. When in reality there is nothing to fear, only because it is different.
ReplyDeleteThe Twilight Zone episode shows xenophobia by potraying the thought of fear in the neighbors. The neighbors are very sceptical when it comes to the unknown. When someone speaks up and gives their opinion others follow suit and the domino effect occures and everybody starts to turn on different solitary people. This story differs to other stories that we read in the fact that the real enemy was the neighbor beside them.
ReplyDeleteMonsters are Due on Maple Street addresses xenophobia by showing how people react when facing something they don't understand. The people of the neighborhood turn on each other. Because they don't know what is going on they look for someone to put the blame on. This show xenophobia because the citizens turn in each other in fear of the unknown.
ReplyDeleteThis episode of the Twilight Zone aligned with xenophobia because the people on Maple Street were afraid of the people who didn't "belong" or were a little off from the rest of them. This alarms me because in the end, the community was going against each other and fighting and killing each other. This episode aligns with the other article we read because they both deal with one race judging or being afraid of another unknown race.
ReplyDeleteThe episode of the Twilight Zone addressed Xenophobia because the Maple street people were extremely afraid of their being an alien present that they just wanted to get it handle and put the blame on them to penalize them.
ReplyDeleteThe episode of the Twilight Zone shows how quickly people are too shut someone out that could be different or odd. The minute the neighborhood people think that it could be someone causeing the electricity to go out they all turn so qucikly because its easier to gang up on someone rather than be different and have an opposeing opinion. This aligns to other stories we have read in how social construct is being tested.
ReplyDeletePeople start to fear what they dont know and start acting irrationally. The people have become so set in their ways that the slightest difference makes them angry or scared. This is a feature of humanity that makes us especially vulnerable and is a large flaw in our society. It was insightful to see how fast they turned against their neighbors.
ReplyDeleteWhat really shocked me was how everyone turned against one another. Just a few little strange happenings that weren't really a big deal escalated into a major conflict where everyone suspected everyone and nearly all were in jeopardy. They were scared of the change in status quo, which ultimately became their demise.
ReplyDeleteThe episode of the Twilight Zone that we watched in class really showcases a unique type of xenophobia in my opinion. When something very out of the ordinary goes wrong (all power shutting down), the entire street plunges into chaos and irrational fear. Even if that fear is fear of each other. This represents xenophobia because it was something strange and unknown that happened first that lead to all the distress and chaos. I also think this episode in the unique way it depicts xenophobia differs from our other texts that we have read. In our other reading the xenophobia was more direct and about a living thing, while in this case the xenophobia was more about a situation.
ReplyDeleteThe episode of Twilight Zone depicts a different kind of xenophobia. When things start to go wrong, and the unexplainable happens (loss of power, communication, transportation), people begin to become afraid of each other. They suspect that their own fellow humans are the ones who are different, and this leads to irrational actions and thoughts.
ReplyDeleteThe Monsters Are Due On Maple Street addressed the concept of xenophobia because it has species they’d never seen before that landed on their land. Everyone was scared and kept blaming one another. It made them act completely different. If something like this were to actually occur in this day and age, I wonder how we would act.
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ReplyDeleteThe Monsters Are Due on Maple Street address the concept of Xenophobia by displaying the great acts of violence those who fear what they don't understand resorted to. No one actually knew what was going on, they just assumed the worst. But when they did come to a conclusion as to what was going on they tried to pin the blame on anyone who seemed suspicious. They did this to try to element the threat as soon possible. And to justify there actions they made out of fear, they say they did it to protect themselves. But the question is protect 'from what?' The fear of what might happen if they didn't, key word MIGHT.
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