Tuesday, October 1, 2019
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 3:40p.m. on Thu., Oct. 3rd, 2019.
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I already seen this episode years ago and i think "The Gift" episode would have been a much better example of Xenophobia but this is pretty good in its own right. It shows human fear and paranoia that the aliens had provided not by showing themselves but simply messing around with the neighbors everyday needs such as cars, radios, power and more.
ReplyDeleteIt shows how humans will be terrified of weird and unexplainable things. It alarms me that humans are so quick to judge things that aren't the same as them. This is similar to other Twilight episodes because humans act strangely to things they don't understand.
ReplyDeleteThe Twilight zone addresses the concept of xenophobia by showing how the people of Maple Street reacted when the monsters started to show up. The people reacted with a lot of suspicion and fear towards anyone that seemed like they could be an alien among them. It doesn't really align with the other sotry we have read because in the other story the humans accepted the fact that aliens had come down to earth while in this episode the humans turn on one another because they are afraid of what could happen.
ReplyDeleteOnce the thing flew over head and the things stop working mast confusion sets in. Another thing when the kid told the adults not to go they all thought he was crazy. Then they start to listen to the kids story the slowly start to realize something. All of them start to go at each other and rat each other out. Thes show xenophobia that they all fear the unknown
ReplyDeleteXenophobia on Maple Street is shown very well.Everyone is turning on each other because they're all scared about a monster. The blame swithces constantly to prove whoever the monster is. The run and try to get away from one thing.
ReplyDeleteThe people of Maple street are frantically trying to figure out what's going on. Everything has stopped working so because people have a fear of the unknown, they start trying to find to find an explanation. While trying to figure out the situation, people turn against others who are even slightly different than they are and assume the worst. This concept highlights the xenophobia of the film. This story is similar to the others because it has a theme of uncertainty and not actually knowing what's going on even though they think they do. This is a lot like Puppet Show where people think they know what the situation is only because someone or something wants them to.
ReplyDeleteEverybody in the story seems to be confused by the circumstances surrounding them, so they point fingers to just try and settle themselves with closure. They point the finger at someone new every 10 seconds and for all of the time they believe that they are 100% correct even when everything gets debunked. It aligns with all of it because people are just confused by everything.
ReplyDeleteIn this episode of the Twilight Zone, you can see xenophobia in the people who live on Maple Street. After their electricity goes out and they find their cars refusing to start (so that they might contact the police) they begin to suspect aliens in their midst. Specifically one of their neighbors, whose car starts without warning and stares deep into the sky at night. They begin to fear the Goodmans. As the days and nights progress. The neighborhood becomes more and more paranoid, accusing each other, hurting each other, killing each other, destroying multiple more properties.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this story. Although this trend is overused nowadays, I think that for its time would have been really cool. The fear really took everyone over. Even after knowing people for multiple years, they still accused each other. It was really interesting how they turned on each other with such little evidence. Overall, it was a very good film and a great example.
ReplyDeleteXenophobia is strong in this movie, because the adults are trying to avoid the truth by making up lies like it being a meteor, and using that excuse as to why all of the power went out. They are afraid of facing the truth even though they may know the truth deep down inside. They seem to have a calm attitude about it but the boy who knows it was aliens does not. This reminds a lot of the puppet show, but in the puppet show, the people accepted the truth. In this story, they keep denying the truth
ReplyDelete-logan lewis
This use of xenophobia was very interesting to me because it showed that in the face of an unknown fear, people who have known each other for quite some time are quick to turn on and attack each other at the first, tiniest sign of difference.
ReplyDeleteYou can clearly see the use of xenophobia in the film so far. The nice suburban family all took a turn on each other when an unknown fear was within the community. Lots of the neighbors took sides and were constantly making false accusations.
ReplyDeleteThe mass hysteria in the Twilight Zone episode, which culminates in the murder of a neighbor, is brought about by two stages of xenophobia. The first stage is the fear of the unknown, leading the inhabitants of Maple Street to conclude that they are being invaded. The second stage is the fear of difference, which is shown when the neighbors start persecuting each other based on their differences.I personally find it alarming how quick the inhabitants of Maple Street are to judge people they have known for year, quickly creating division within the community. I feel this episode differs slightly from other sci-fi in that it restrains itself with technological expansion to give a blunt, straightforward view of human xenophobia.
ReplyDeleteIn the Episode of the Twilight Zone it shows how fear of otherworldly things can cause such mass hysteria and destruction of human life out of fear. Xenophobia is not hidden in this episode. Neighbors who have known each other for years suddenly turn on one another out of fear of an extraterrestrial living among them. It's as if a mask came over them and they start to jump to conclusions. Start believing stories from a child out of having no other explanation. Their fear is not justified, it was irrational and stupid and shows how fear drives human spirit and xenophobia.
ReplyDeleteIn the episode of The Twilight Zone, pretty much nothing surprises me, it is human nature to always assume, never to really think through it for long periods of time. Because people have a fear of not knowing, they don't care to know what it is in the very end.
ReplyDeleteIn this episode of Twilight Zone, the people of maple street show their fear of aliens and change. Just because communication and power went out on their street they started a witch hunt. It was amazing seeing how fast neighbors can turn on each other even if they had known each other for years
ReplyDeleteXenophobia in this episode is much different from the other short story because this time it's a fear that the the different is one of themselves. Everyone was very quickly paranoid that they believed a ten year old's comic story. The story is very realistic because if it were to actually happen no body would be able to keep their calm.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was interesting how quick the characters in this episode of The Twilight Zone were willing to scapegoat the others that they had been living around for years. connected this episode to the book The Book Thief and WWII, which is an extreme example of prejudices leading to destruction. I think it displays how unstable human society currently is and slow we are to trust.
ReplyDelete"Monsters are due on Maple Street" addresses xenophobia by showcasing human behavior when entering the unfamiliar. When people's machines stop working, they look for an explanation and a scapegoat. This shows how humans fear the unknown. Something that alarms me is how quickly people became aggressive and hostile off of baseless accusations. THis aligns with other texts because it attempts to showcase human nature.
ReplyDeleteI think that, "Maple Street" addresses Xenophobia very well because it shows how quick humans are to destroy themselves when something else is near them. They all thought that there was some alien controlling their power, but in reality, it is themselves that destroy themselves. This is different from other stories we have read because in this story, the monsters are humans.
ReplyDeleteIn the Twilight Zone, it shows how something odd can cause fear, hysteria, and destruction.The neighbors start jumping to conclusions when they start believing in the child. This shows how fear can take over the human spirit and it explains how we can act a certain way towards this fear.
ReplyDeleteThe use of xenophobia in this movie is different than how xenophobia is usually displayed. In this story they fear the unknown, and they become suspicious of each other for very minute, generally unjustified reasons
ReplyDeleteMheret Tatek
ReplyDeleteThe xenophobia in this film is rooted in the grounds of fear. It's such an interesting display of how quickly the familiar can become terrifying, and all it takes his just a seed of suspicion. A little boy's intuition out of a comic book was enough to set a whole street into a witch hunt.