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Why The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”

What’s worse than monsters invading your street?
According to “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”, it’s probably your neighbor. This play is about a group of people who live on Maple Street. After the power is out for a few hours, they start to panic. They eventually begin to blame each other, and start to get violent. They act like children and blamed aliens. They also killed a man because they thought it was aliens. Also, Tommy is fourteen, but acts like he’s six or seven. This is very inaccurate to what would’ve actually happened in a power outage.

My first reason is that they blamed aliens. Most adults I know don’t believe in aliens, nor would they accuse other people of being aliens.

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