Monsters are Due on Maple Street Response

Monsters are Due on Maple Street was written about forty years ago. I think the message from this story is that monsters don't nessesarily need to be ugly, green, or big, we can be our own monsters. For example, after the blackout, when everyone is suspicious and loosing confidence, one of the residents of Maple Street, Peter Van Horn, who went to check if Floral Street had the same blackout problem came back from Floral Street and Charlie took a shotgun and killed him because he thought Peter Van Horn was a monster. Charlie is a normal human, but he was so scared that he killed his own friend. The real monsters that were controlling the blackout and all the events that happened said something very important:

Their world is full 0f Maple Streets. And we'll go from one to the other,
and let them destroy themselves. One to the other...one to the other...one
to the other...

I think the message the story has is true. Humans can be their own monsters when they are under pressure or in a difficult situation and they can cause a lot of damage and harm. This story was written a long time ago but it still is very important for today. It is significant because there are many wars and many people get killed but it happens because of conflicts between humans. An example of this is the this that are happening in Iraq. Many people are killed and the country is getting very violent. That all happens because of a conflict between some humans and the ones killing each other and destroying building and causing a disaster are humans. Also, in Iraq, an important reason of the fight that is happening there is that people don't agree so they end up fighting and making a lot of damage and accusing each other. That is similar to the conflict on Maple Street. In Maple Street people distrust each other and don't agree or end up fighting and there is a big conflict so both problems, in Maple Street and in the real world are real.

If the story was going to be transmitted again by TV off course it would need to be updated. In the original story, the things affected by the blackout are portable radios, and things that are not so popular now. Right now, modern things would be affected like plasma TVs, iPods, DVDs, computers, and things like that. Right now, people know much more about aliens and space travel. People have built space stations, have gone to the moon, and people have built machines that have taken pictures of other planets, etc. I wouldn't change the location of the story much. Maybe I would change the street name but I would make it a common street name, like Main Street. This shows that the problems can happen anywhere in the world because Main Streets and other little streets are very common. Finally, Tommy, the kid that told all the adults that the monsters didn't want them out of the street wouldn't get all his alien information from comic books. I think he could get them from other things like TV or things he reads in internet.