Monsters
This is the setting of the story.
What is Maple Street?
Charlie shoots this person with is shotgun.
Who is Pete VanHorn?
This is the real cause of the strange occurrences on Maple Street.
What are aliens plotting to destroy human kind?
The crowd sees a figure coming towards them. Charlie grabs a gun and shoots Van Horn who is returning. Suddenly Charlie's lights go on and now he is the prime suspect.
This is the ______ of the story.
What is the climax?
This is a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.
What is a scapegoat?
The first signs that something strange is going on on Maple Street.
What are phones, radios, and cars are not working?
At the end of the story, the narrator says this is as destructive as bombs and fallout?
What are prejudice and suspicion?
This is the reason the neighbors turn from a crowd into a mob. (Hint: a feeling)
What is they are scared, worried, and nervous?
Everyone is in hysteria, Charlie screams that the real alien is Tommy the young boy who knew the events before they happened.
This the the ____________ of the plot diagram.
What is the falling action?
This is the theme of the story.
Things aren't always as they seem, and people shouldn't judge each other without proof.
Tommy explains that this was the cause of what is happening?
What are aliens?
What qualities in Les Goodman and Steve Brand cause people to become suspicious of them?
They are quiet people who are loners.
On a quiet suburban Maple Street, somewhere in America, the inhabitants notice a meteor like object flies overhead. After it passes all the electronics and electricity go dead. What part of the story is this?
exposition
In the end, the aliens are watching over the town, they did nothing but plant an idea in the people's heads. Once they did this, human nature destroyed the inhabitants of Maple Street; They were the monsters, not the aliens. .....what part of the story is this?
resolution
What does Les do at night that others find disturbing?
looks up at the sky
In the beginning, this happens to Les Goodman's car that makes people suspicious.
What is his car starts on its' own.
Pete Van Horn walks over to Floral Street to do this.
What is to see if the power was out there as well?
A young boy named Tommy tells a story he read about Aliens arriving from out space. Believing his story the people start to suspect each other of being a secret alien......what part of the story is this?
Conflict
According to his wife, Steve spends hours doing this in his basement.
What is working on a ham radio?
This is a vocabulary word for feeling confused, agitated or upset.
What is flustered?
______ believes that Charlie is innocent.
Who is no one?
Fear contributes to the behaviors on Maple Street by causing this.
What is the fear is what causes them to become a mob?
Pete Van Horn leaves to check the next block over. Meanwhile, Les Goodman's car mysteriously starts on its' own. Everyone automatically accuses him of being an alien, and they stay up through the night watching him. Steve tries to talk some sense into the mob and fails when the attention is pointed to the radio in his basement.
This the the _____ of the story.
rising action
This vocabulary word means the opposite of hurriedly.
What is sluggish?
This is a vocabulary word meaning to cause (someone) to become motionless with horror, wonder, or astonishment.
What is transfixed?