Monday, October 30, 2006

Respond to Maple Street's Monsters

I read this story called Monsters are due On Maple Street, it is a science fiction story written by Rod Serling, from an old show called The Twilight Zone. At the end of this story there was a clear message that two aliens talk about, they say that humans pick their most dangerous enemy they can find to destroy it, the aliens were kind of manipulating the people of maple street, that were eating themselves alive, the aliens said that the only thing they have to do is to sit back and watch. The message is that ¨Tools¨ of conquering were not onlyweapons, but could be thoughts, actions, or prejudices. One big example is when the car of a men called Les Goodman went on alone when nothing was working , especially electricity, the people blamed him a lot making a big conflict in the story.

I think this message is, in a sort of way, significant to the people but still has significance in today's world, by sying that conflitcts with contrys not only form by wars, or weapons, but they can form by one contry´s, opinion, or action. Same thing happens not to only countrys but humans, one example is, when a kid says to play one game that other kid doesnt like, there comes problems.

One thing of the story that I see that for the people to read it know is the date of when it was made. The story was made in the 1960´s, and now that we are in the 2000´s, I think the story needs a little of updating. The most important update they need is the use of technology. The the little thing they have to change is the using of words, or the way that they talk.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow! That story sounds good! Except for the alien thing. They kinda creep me out. What you thought of the meaning, though, was great!