Read the excerpt from Act 2 of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. FIGURE ONE

Understand the procedure now? Just stop a few of their machines and radios and telephones and lawn mowers . . . throw them into darkness for a few hours and then you just sit back and watch the pattern.

Which theme is reflected in this excerpt?
New technology is a dangerous tool in the hands of the wrong people.
Being without light can cause people to become defensive and out of control.
Causing panic is just as destructive as any weapon or physical force.
Material possessions often contribute to conflict between neighbors.

Read the excerpt from Act 2 of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.

FIGURE ONE

Understand the procedure now? Just stop a few of their machines and radios and telephones and lawn mowers . . . throw them into darkness for a few hours and then you just sit back and watch the pattern.

Which theme is reflected in this excerpt?

New technology is a dangerous tool in the hands of the wrong people.

Being without light can cause people to become defensive and out of control.

Causing panic is just as destructive as any weapon or physical force.

Material possessions often contribute to conflict between neighbors.

The real monsters of Maple Street are the people who live there. The aliens have come to expect that people will behave like monsters when faced with something that scares them. They knew that when they turned the power off, the citizens of Maple Street would blame each other and destroy themselves.

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Explanation:

in ray bradbury's short story "a sound of thunder", mr. eckels's fearfulness leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

in the story, mr. eckels, who is a hunter, hires a time travel company to travel to the age of dinosaurs. although he is excited for the hunting expedition at the beginning, when they reach there and mr. eckels sees the tyrannosaurus, he feels frightened. as he is afraid of the tyrannosaurus, he steps off the path although he has been warned not to do it. by stepping off the path, the entire course of the future is affected: mr. eckart alters the future by stepping on a butterfly, which causes a new man to be elected president in the future. in that way, it is mr. eckart's fearfulness what triggers 'the butterfly effect' and what leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.