Monsters on Maple Street - Plot Diagram
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Storyboard Text
- Exposition
- Steve Brand (protagonist)
- Charlie
- Charlie's Wife
- Mrs. Brand
- Les Goodman
- The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street - by Rod Serling
- Sally
- Tommy (Sally's son)
- Mrs. Goodman
- One summer evening...
- Pete Van Horn
- Maple Street, USA
- Don Martin
- The beings who are revealed at the conclusion are plotting to destroy the Earth, which infers that they oppose mankind.
- Conflict
- Due to the fear and prejudice in their hearts, the people develop suspicion of each other, which later causes them to turn on, and hate, each other.
- MAN
- MAN
- vs
- vs
- NATURE
- (self)
- (aliens)
- MAN
- As a flash and roar suddenly arrive and disappear, electricity goes out. The people discuss numerous scenarios. Tommy offers his input: there were monsters on the thing that flew by, and they sent a family down in advance; this family is among them, and they are not who they seem to be.
- Rising Action
- "What was that? A meteor?" (668)
- "'They don't want us to leave. That's why they shut everything off.'" (671)
- "Electricity's off. Phone won't work... Radio's gone dead..." (669)
- Grr... Why isn't this thing working?
- "Charlie slowly raises the gun. As the figure gets closer and closer he suddenly pulls the trigger... the figure, who suddenly lets out a small cry, stumbles forward onto his knees and then falls forward on his face." (679)
- Climax
- "'No more talk, Steve. You're going to talk us into a grave! You'd let whatever's out there walk right over us, wouldn't yuh? Well, some of us won't!'" (678)
- GET BACK HERE! I KNOW IT'S YOU!
- NO, IT ISN'T! I SWEAR! IT'S THE KID!
- Falling Action
- To Charlie's surprise, the figure turns out to be Pete Van Horn; this, in addition to the flickering lights, causes the crowd to erupt with accusations and screams of pure terror, which throws the town into utter chaos.
- LOOK! THE LIGHTS!
- Well, I think it's either Les or Charlie... It HAS to be!
- "'... I didn't know who he was... How was I supposed to know he wasn't a monster or something?... I was just tryin' to... protect my home, that's all... I didn't know it was somebody we knew...'" (680)
- Well who do YOU think it is then?
- Toward the end, two figures silhouetted against the light of a metal space craft elaborate their conspiracy against the people of the Earth.
- Resolution
- "'... 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...'" (684)
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