In The Monsters are Due on Maple Street, the neighbors getr paranoid about each other being aliens. They go after and put blame on eachother in order to put reassurance within themselves. They don't want to live in fear with people who are close to them like their neighbors. We as humans, usually fear the unknown and different and all of the possibilities that come with it. We live in this fear and let it eat us up until it destroys us and the people whom we surround. I thought it was horrible how all of the neighbors went crazy because they were too xenophobic. There wasn any threatening that people were doing. The power went out and this started the whole chain of events. I really enjoyed this video. I thought it was neat how they showed the aliens in the end and how they were purposely going to every Maple Street to see how the people reacted when the power went out. I didn't expect this ending at all.
To be honest, Muse creeped me out. I find it weird how the slug tapped into his thoughts and conversed with him that way. This story reminded me of a book I read called Host. In both stories the main character has an alien that taps into their thoughts. The only difference is that in Host, the alien controls the persons thoughts completely. I cannot decide weather or not the slug in Muse controls his thoughts completely or if he combines his thoughts with the main characters. We cannont tell because the character wouldn't know if he was being controlled or not. I didn't like how the father didn't accept his son's choice to have the slug with him. It shows that we are afraid of being controlled by the unknown.
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