Vocabulary
Fearful that something bad may happen.
What is apprehensive?
This man is the first to notice something strange when the power goes out.
Who is Steve?
This is the name of the street where the story takes place.
What is Maple Street?
At the beginning of the play, this sudden event causes confusion on Maple Street.
What is a loud roar/flash in the sky?
This globally popular musician is engaged to Travis Kelce.
Who is Taylor Swift?
What is dense?
This boy suggests that aliens might be behind the strange events on Maple Street.
Who is Tommy?
Maple Street is located in this kind of community, known for being calm and neighborly.
What is a suburban or residential neighborhood?
After the power goes out, the neighbors first think it might just be this kind of problem.
What is a temporary power outage or technical issue?
Coca-Cola's lemon lime soda is Sprite. Pepsi has this lemon lime soda.
What is Starry?
Nervous or afraid; uneasy.
What is anxious?
This man’s car mysteriously starts by itself, making the neighbors suspicious of him.
Who is Les Goodman?
At the beginning of Act 1, this natural event is happening that makes the neighbors gather outside.
What is a summer day turning to evening?
Tommy warns the neighbors about this, based on the stories he has read.
What are aliens who blend in and pretend to be humans?
This man is the current Vice President of the United States.
Who is JD Vance?
Inability to sleep.
What is insomnia?
This character tries to calm the neighbors down and encourages them not to jump to conclusions.
Who is Steve?
The strange event that changes the setting of Maple Street is that these suddenly stop working.
What are the electricity and machines (power, cars, radios, phones)?
The neighbors begin to turn on each other when this happens with Les Goodman’s car.
What is it starts by itself while everything else won’t work?
The first "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Finding Nemo" movies were released, Tom Brady won his 2nd Super Bowl, the United States invaded Iraq, and Mr. Smith was in 8th grade in THIS YEAR.
What is 2003?
An uncommon way that a person acts or thinks. Something that makes them unique.
What is idiosyncrasy?
This character represents how quickly fear can make people turn against one another, as he leads the accusations.
Who is Charlie?
Although Maple Street looks peaceful and ordinary, Rod Serling uses the setting to symbolize this larger idea about human behavior.
What is how fear and suspicion can turn ordinary places into scenes of chaos and conflict?
At the end of Act 1, the suspicion and fear on Maple Street are symbolized when this happens.
What is the crowd blaming each other and becoming hostile/chaotic?
This famous actor was the voice of Woody in the Toy Story movies and the main star in 2014's action thriller "Captain Phillips."
Who is Tom Hanks?