Monsters are Due on Maple Street

"The mob pick the most dangerous enemy they can find...and it's themselves." I think that this message means that they were the most dangerous enemies because of the way they tried to solve their problems. The way the residednts tried to solve the problem of the blackout was trying to find a scapegoat in the group. Everyone was blaming other people without knowing who was the responsable of the strange things that were happening. The aliens said that they could leave them in there and let them destroy themselves one to the other. So the real monsters were themselves. Also the Narrator's Voice said,"There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attidudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men." I think this is the answer that the world is full of Maple Streets because the monsters are created in the inside of the men.

I agree with the message because when you are in those situations most people go "crazy." They go crazy because they start to blame each other without having evidence that he or she is the responsable of the problem. I think that the message of this story still has significance in today's world because it can influence people to calm down and try to solve their problems in a peacefull way to prevent more and more problems. An example in today's world is with Colombia and the "Guerilla." We haven't solve that problem and get to an agreement. Also when terrorists crashed the airplanes to the Twin Towers.

If this story could be updated it would be more realistic. It would be more realistic because it would be at my time which I know what is happening in the world around me. So the little kids would understand the message of the story more because they don't what happened in 1960. People don't have much evidences that can prove that there are aliens traveling in the space. The equipment that would be affected if the story is updated wouldn't be as the ones that were affected back in 1960. It wouldn't be affected as much because now we have more technology and in some places were there is a blackout they use their electric plant. Maybe the portable things could be damaged but you never know, technology keeps growing. Aplace that would be interesting for this story to happen is in a big city with more people and there would more suspense. Tommy could know about aliens using internet or new books that have knowledge about the few evidences that we have about aliens.