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? After we watch the episode, please respond to this post during class.
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I think it shows how the fear of others in situations when things start to seem sour. It really draws out people mob mentalities also, when one person starts in then the whole town does.
ReplyDeletemaple street they sent a mom father and the people have really good facks and they are all being blamed a lot of weird they are all getting tricked the humans are killing themselfs
ReplyDeleteIt shows that fear can run people's mind. They had the fear of someone being not who they think they are. Just because their power went out. The mob mentality causes chaos.
ReplyDeleteFear brings out the truth in people. The fear controlled the mob. The blame went from one person to the next.
ReplyDeleteI think it shows how bad people can get when paranormal and xenophobia because they thought they had aliens in their presence and all go crazy trying to find control and get things back to normal but that only takes them more out of control.
ReplyDeleteIt addresses the idea of xenophobia because they became quickly suspicious of different people after a kid said that it was monsters that flew overhead. They were afraid and didn't want to face the monsters. The people living on Maple Street quickly made assumptions off of what other people said. This lead them to killing a neighbor, who could've had valuable information.
ReplyDeleteMany people were judged and it was not fair to those who would be framed and did not do it. They only went off one person thoughts. Tommy said that it was people in maple street. That set off everyone's theory. It shows to never judge people based of assumptions.
ReplyDeleteThe inhabitants of Maple Street are very paranoid about who is the alien. They would accuse someone and then accuse another person. It all came together when one of the people Peter Van Horn was killed simply because he was coming back from Floral street and was in the dark because the lights were out.
ReplyDeleteOn maple street they were so quick to assume who did it who caused this unearthly ruckus an then another person pointed to another and it went on and on. This can address the thought of xenophobia because the people were so disapproving to what was going on on their street.
ReplyDeleteGia S
DeleteThis episode adresses xenophobia because it shows that as the neighborhood has all their electronics turned off they all get scared and start blaming each other and starts tearing themselves apart.
ReplyDeleteThe people of Maple Street were so paranoid about aliens that they started accusing their neighbors and friends of not being who they said they were. This episode shows that people can be so quick to judge that they can destroy each other with a bad assumption.
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ReplyDeletet was smart of the aliens to just turn off minimal electricity and let the humans destroy themselves. They knew that the humans would do anything to make them feel safe. It addresses xenophobia,because if there is just one thing dividing one person from the rest, that person is a monster.
The people on Maple Street were so afraid of what was happening that they were noticing everything that was happening and they changed who they thought was the alien. It wasn't fair to some people to get blamed for things that were not their fault.
ReplyDeletethe people on maple street were so paranoid they literally were blaming people saying they were aliens just because their power simply turned on and they for changing who they thought it was just bc there power went on for a second which was kind of dumb. it also wasn't smart on the aliens part because like why make humans destroy themselves like what is the purpose. it wasn't fair for the humans to get blamed for something they obviously didn't do, and it isn't very fair for the aliens to do that to every street.
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