In “ The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” by Rod Serling, the character’s actions advance the plot in the story by making the events in the story more imaginative and mysterious. The text states that the residents of Maple street believe that the meteor that flew overhead caused the electrical problem, “...a meteor...why should the power go off all of a sudden?” This event is critical to the plot, because the characters thought it was an unexplained object in the sky, and without it Tommy wouldn’t have questioned that it was aliens and that the entire story could have never happened. According to the writer the lights in Les goodman's house are going on and off and Mr. Goodman thinks it’s his neighbors pulling a prank on him, “Now that's supposed