Act 1
Where and when does the story take place?
What is Maple Street, USA — in the late summer?
What is conversing?
What is talking/chatting?
Who comes out of the house and joins Les on the porch of the Goodman house?
Who is Mrs. Goodman?
What is scapegoat?
What is innocent person who is blamed?
Who tries to stop the mob from going down to Goodman’s?
Who is Steve?
What did the neighbors think they saw and heard in the sky?
What is a meteor?
What is Intense?
What is extreme, serious?
What does Steve tell Charlie to do?
What is hestiant?
What is uncertain or unsure?
Who ends up with the gun?
Who is Charlie?
What do all the people on the street begin to notice?
What is the power is off and phone lines are dead?
What is Flustered?
What is unsettled, make nervous?
As the crowd gathers around Steve and Charlie, what do they see down the street?
What is someone is coming toward them in the dark?
What is procedure?
What does Tommy say happened in the story he read?
What is nobody could leave, except the people they sent down ahead of them that looked just like humans.
What does Steve notice when he decides to take his car downtown to see if they know what happened?
What is Steve's car won't start?
What is Optimism?
What is hopeful, positive thinking?
What do they agree their plan will be to conquer
the Earth?
What is they just have to stop a few of their machines, throw them in darkness for a few hours, and let them destroy themselves.
What is Menace?
What is threat, danger?
What does Tommy say about why they shouldn’t go downtown and what is happening?
What is they don’t want us to leave, whoever was in the thing that came overhead.
Who decides to walk downtown to see that has happened?
What is Portable?
What is mobile (mobile radio)?
What is happening down the street as all the
people start rioting?
What is lights in random houses come on, people are accusing everyone, and attacking each other.
What is contorted?
What is twisted, distorted?
How do the people react to Goodman’s car starting up?
What is suspicious as to why his car started, and decide to go down and confront Goodman?