Which line from Act 2 of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street helps to distinguish this teleplay as a work of science fiction ra
ther than a work of fantasy fiction? "Show them nothing! If they want to look inside our house – let them get a search warrant.”
A figure has suddenly materialized in the gloom and in the silence we can hear the clickety-clack of slow, measured footsteps on concrete as the figure walks slowly toward them.
"We're all scared of the same thing. I was just tryin' to . . . tryin' to protect my home, that's all! Look, all of you, that's all I was tryin' to do."
“Who do I talk to? I talk to monsters from outer space. I talk to three headed green men who fly over here in what look like meteors.”
In the 1969 short story named Marigolds written by Eugenia Collier, the character Lizabeth is keenly aware of her surroundings as she grows up. It is the one major change throughout the book which takes place during the Great Depression. She changes from an innocent child to a woman.
