‘’The Monsters are Due on Maple Street’’ and ‘’The Andy Griffith Show’’ have many simularities and many differences. In ‘’The Monsters are Due on Maple Street’’ and ‘’The Andy Griffith Show’’ the theme and irony are alike. But they are also different. In both stories suspicions rise about unfamiliar things, but all the suspicions are different. Another difference is the conflict, different events happen. Some of the events that are alike are both of the stories happened in a little part of their town. The moods in the stories are also alike, the moods in both stories go from happy to suspicious because of something unusual. Complications also happen in the two stories that are the same, events happen that don’t usually happen on a daily basis. Odd things come and they don’t know who or what it is. The conflict in both stories are that someone or something comes and they don’t know what it could be, and everyone gets suspicious. …show more content…
Even though the events have many simularities that doesn’t mean that there aren’t differences.
The difference between ‘’The Monsters are Due on Maple Street’’ and The Andy Griffith Show’’ is that in ‘’The Monsters are Due on Maple Street’’ the setting is in a neighborhood later in the evening. While in ‘’The Andy Griffith Show’’ the setting is in a town about mid-day. The mood in ‘’The Monsters are Due on Maple Street’’ the mood is suspicious, but the neighbors are suspicious of each other unlike in ‘’The Andy Griffith Show they are suspicious of one person. Another difference is that ‘’The Monsters are Due on Maple Street’’ is fiction because aliens could never come to Earth and mess with a someones car and electricity. In ‘’The Andy Griffith Show’’ someone could come to your town and know everything about your town because they could have done a lot of research to know what they
know. In conclusion there are a lot of things alike and different about ‘’The Monsters are Due on Maple Street’’ and ‘’The ANdy Griffith Show.’’ Such as they are both very suspicious in both stories. And there are differences as well, like in ‘’The Monsters are Due on Maple Street’’ aliens came to Earth unlike in ‘’The Andy Griffith Show’’ an unusual person came to town. Another example that is alike about the stories is the irony, both stories irony was suspicious. There were a few alikes and differences of the stories ‘’The Monsters are Due on Maple street’’ and ‘’The Andy Griffith Show.’’
Here are the flashbacks and foreshadowing. One of the similarities is they both had to do with animals and their parents telling them something. The other is that they have flashbacks of animals. Those are the similarities with flashbacks and foreshadowing.
Both works of literature go into depth on appearance, and how your cultural background does not determine what kind of person you are. This can be displayed in "Mericans," when Michelle is assumed to be a Mexican girl who only spoke Spanish and followed all Mexican traditions until she proved them wrong. This can be displayed in Okita's poem when Denise assumed that Okita was the enemy because of her Japanese heritage. A difference between the stories in that one is free verse poetry, and one is a short story. The common theme in both is that appearance does not determine what kind of person you
A fairly obvious comparison between these two stories is the setting in which they take place. Both occur in New England territory, mainly in the forests and hilly country. It also seems as if the land in each of the tales is rocky and hard to work. The geographical features of these lands sound much the same. In fact, each of the two takes place in an area very close to, if not in, Massachusetts. Tom Walker lives a few miles from Boston, while Jabez Stone lives in New Hampshire, near the area where that state meets up with Vermont and Massachusetts. Daniel Webster lives in Massachusetts, in a town called Marshfield. The geographical and cartographical similarities here show an obvious parallel between the two.
are both set in a terrible time when the black community were slaves and treated like garbage. The only difference is one was successful and the other not so much.
The similarities are prolific in their presence in certain parts of the novel, the very context of both stories shows similarities, both are dealing with an oppressed factor that is set free by an outsider who teaches and challenges the system in which the oppressed are caught.
Herd behavior is when individuals in a group make a choice and everyone else unconsciously follows them. This usually takes place when under pressure or while in danger. Either good or bad decisions can come from this. In the teleplay “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” written by Rod Serling, the article “Why Do People Follow the Crowd” written by ABC News, and “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the three sources all discuss how mob mentality and herd behavior can negatively affect people’s morals and thinking process. Mob mentality and herd behavior will inevitably lead to a loss of integrity and common sense, since members will follow the group and not their on free will, which leads to a negative
?The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street? is a story about the paranoia of regular people. When the power and phone lines stop working on Maple Street, the residents become hostile. One boy puts an idea into their heads: that aliens impersonating humans have done it. This single thought catalysts and soon all of the neighbors are ready to hurt each other for answers. ?The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street? is a good play to see for all ages.
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. In the book the Lord of the Flies by William Golding and the episode “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” by Rod Serling both revolve around a society who creates this monster in them that is made out of fear, paranoia, and savagery. They both show how just a small group of people can go mad and destroy everything out of fear.
different time of period and different region, but yet both stories shared similar endings and
Real or Not Real, we will never know. All of a sudden aliens play a game with the people on Maple Street. All of the power shuts off. Les Goodman’s car starts by itself. Pete was shot, mistaken to be an alien. I think this story is not realistic because aliens can't control power, can't make a car by itself, or mistaken someone to be an alien then shoot that person.
Have you ever thought about the similarities between two stories, Or how the similarities make stories relatable. For example La Bamba and Marble Champ by Gary Soto, in the book Baseball In April. These two stories have a lot in common and a good amount of differences, it could be from taking things from his old work and enhancing it or, it could be the author's writing process.
the come about as the story progresses. This being the topic of the essay the similarities and
The two books have multiple differences in their settings creating similar but also different outcomes. The first noticeable difference was the environment. Andy is placed in an urban and gloomy
The novels have their similarities as well as their differences. Big things to compare and contrast are the settings, main characters, and each novel's conflict.
The common elements in the two stories are the wolf, Little Red (Riding Hood/Cap), her grandmother, and her mother. The beginnings of the stories are also similar: Little Red?s mother sends her to grandmother?s house because the grandmother is ill. Both stories mention that Little Red is personable, cute, and sweet. This is something that, on initial inspection, seems irrelevant but holds a deeper meaning for the symbolism behind the story. In both stories, the wolf, wandering through the woods, comes on Little Red and asks where she is going. When Little Red responds that she is going to visit her sick grandmother, the wolf distracts her with the suggestion that she should pick some flowers so that he can get to her grandmother?s house first. The wolf arrives at Little Red?s grandmother?s house before Little Red and disguises his voice in order to be let in. When he is let into the house, he promptly devours the grandmother and disguises himself in her clothes in order to eat Little Red as well. At this point, the two narratives diverge.