Aliens Vs. Monsters Due On Maple Street

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The Andy Griffith show the setting is about a stranger being in the town. He knows alot about the people in it. The reason he knows alot about the town is because he always read the paper, and he was trampled by other people he told them why he was there and how he knew so much about the town and he got put in the paper.In the story THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON MAPLE STREET, it was a purfect Saterday afternoon but all the sudden the radio’s, phones, and cars,lights stopted working and the whole town was aginst each other, but it end up being the green aliens. So the andy griffith show is the same in some ways as Monsters Due On Maple Street are they are both qustiong what is going on. In both things they are both curious through the whole story.

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