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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Nate Swartwood- In this episode, we see how people are so quick to judge and point fingers at one another. Everyone in the town wanted a scapegoat for the weird things that were going on. It just shows how our human nature is and how xenophobia can relate to our modern lives as well.
ReplyDeleteNot a lot of diversity. Lots of talk about how people don't fit in and they turn of anything different. Talk a lot about what other people have and don't. Everyone's turning on each other.
ReplyDeleteThe residents of Maple Street are so afraid that they start pointing fingers and killing each other for small things that they do differently. I don't know if it's similar to anything we have read or watched this semester but it kind of reminds me of the Salem Witch trials.
ReplyDeleteIt shows xenophobia, because soon after they lost power, they began blaming each other for being aliens and trying to attack them, but the whole time the monsters were not even among them. -Will W
ReplyDeleteThe monsters are due on maple street addresses Xenophobia by having aliens make the humans destroy themselves. The episode shows how the idea of an outside force can drive people to their worst point thus destroying themselves.
ReplyDeletethe people where saying different people where the alien even though they weren't them. but they got mad and suspicious of one another when something that they didn't control happened.
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