High School

In both *A Wrinkle in Time* and *The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street*, the characters ask questions for a number of different reasons.

Compare and contrast the questions asked by Meg and Charles Wallace with the questions asked by the red-eyed man in *A Wrinkle in Time* and by the neighbors in *The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street*.

- What do these questions tell the reader about the theme of seeking the truth?
- How is this theme portrayed similarly and differently in the excerpts from the novel and script?
- How does watching the television episode add to your understanding of this theme?

Support your claims with evidence from both texts as well as from the television episode.

Answer :

This play perfectly and clearly conveys the theme, "Fear can turn humans into monsters." At the beginning of the play, a loud sound and a bright light fall from the sky.

In The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, who are the main characters?

Pete Van Horn offers to walk to Floral Street, the next street over, to see if it is also affected, hammer in hand and bib overalls on. Steve Brand and Charlie Farnsworth, his neighbors, decide to go into town, but Tommy, a young boy in the neighborhood, tells them not to.

What is the conclusion of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street?

As the teleplay closes, the audience learns that aliens who want to take over the world have stopped the machines and are observing the humans' self-destructive behavior. This behavior reveals that the real monsters on Maple Street are the people themselves and the fears and prejudices they harbor.

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