Which excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street best foreshadows the idea that the residents of Maple Street are becoming a dangerous mob?
Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.52. CLOSE SHOT – GOODMAN 52.As he instinctively backs away.GOODMANShe's crazy. Look I can explain that. Please . . . I can really explain that . . . she's making it up anyway.(then he shouts,)I tell you she's making it up!Now he takes a step toward the crowd and they back away from him. He walks down the steps after them and they continue to back away. Now he's suddenly and completely left alone and he looks like a man caught in the middle of a menacing circle as we take aSLOW FADE TO BLACK:
Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.STEVE(raising his voice)There's something you can do, Charlie. You could go home and keep your mouth shut. You could quit strutting around like a self-appointed hanging judge and just climb into bed and forget it.CHARLIEYou sound real anxious to have that happen, Steve. I think we better keep our eye on you too!DON(as if he were taking the bit in his teeth, takes a hesitant step to the front)I think everything might as well come out now.(he turns toward Steve.)Your wife's done plenty of talking, Steve, about how odd you are!CHARLIE(picking this up, his eyes widening)Go ahead, tell us what she's said.58. LONG SHOT – STEVE 58.As he walks toward them from across the street.STEVEGo ahead, what's my wife said? Let's get it all out. Let's pick out every idiosyncrasy of every single man, woman, and child on the street. And then we might as well set up some kind of a kangaroo court. How about a firing squad at dawn, Charlie, so we can get rid of all the suspects. Narrow them down. Make it easier for you.DONThere's no need gettin' so upset, Steve. It's just that . . . well . . . Myra's talked about how there's been plenty of nights you spent hours down in your basement workin' on some kind of radio or something. Well, none of us have ever seen that radio—
Based on Steve’s actions in the first part of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, readers may have predicted that Steve would continue being the town’s leader during the power outage. How should readers revise this prediction after Don asks Steve about his radio?
Which of the excerpts from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street best foreshadows that the residents of Maple Street will turn against Les Goodman?
Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.58. LONG SHOT – STEVE 58.As he walks toward them from across the street.STEVEGo ahead, what's my wife said? Let's get it all out. Let's pick out every idiosyncrasy of every single man, woman, and child on the street. And then we might as well set up some kind of a kangaroo court. How about a firing squad at dawn, Charlie, so we can get rid of all the suspects. Narrow them down. Make it easier for you.DONThere's no need gettin' so upset, Steve. It's just that . . . well . . . Myra's talked about how there's been plenty of nights you spent hours down in your basement workin' on some kind of radio or something. Well, none of us have ever seen that radio—
Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.56. TRACK SHOT – STEVE 56.From several yards down as he walks down the steps of his porch, walks down the street over to Les Goodman's house and then stops at the foot of the steps.57. REVERSE ANGLE – LOOKING TOWARD SCREEN DOOR 57.Goodman stands there, his wife behind him very frightened.GOODMANJust stay right where you are, Steve. We don't want any trouble but this time if anybody sets foot on my porch that's what they're going to get—trouble!
Which excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street is an example of direct characterization?
Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.SALLYThere's . . . there's a light on in the Goodman house.The people now turn as if by direction toward the last house on the street.CUT TO:37. PAN SHOT – ACROSS THE STREET DOWN THE ROW OF HOUSES 37.Each is the same in general style, the front porch, the gliders, the rest of it. Then suddenly the CAMERA STOPS on the last house in the line. There's a spot light set up on the porch and even in the daylight we can see it shining.CUT TO:38. CLOSE SHOT – THE SPOT LIGHT 38.CUT TO:39. REVERSE ANGLE – LOOKING TOWARD FACES OF THE PEOPLE 39.As they stare at it.MAN ONEThat's Les Goodman's house. He's got lights!40. PAN SHOT ACROSS FACES OF THE PEOPLE 40.As they stare, somehow caught up by this revelation and desperately frightened by it.
Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.49. CLOSE SHOT – SPOT LIGHT ON PORCH 49.As it suddenly goes out. There's a murmur from the group.50. GROUP SHOT 50.As the people react.GOODMANNow I suppose that's supposed to incriminate me! The light goes on and off. That really does it, doesn't it?(he looks around the faces of the people.)I just don't understand this—(he wets his lips, looking from face to face.)Look, you all know me. We've lived here five years. Right in this house. We're no different than any of the rest of you. We're no different at all. Really . . . this whole thing is just . . . just weird—
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