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once the heading flies overhead, the machinery and technology in the neighborhood begins to fail the cars wont start, the ph stars dont work, and the government agency grid for the homes goes dark. Though there may be many disparate messages to interpret with this particular episode, I believe the main one to alternate away at us is this if technology fails us, we resort to our primal instincts and booby hatch ensues. This is evident when a young boy in the neighborhood hypothesizes that the object overhead is whatever sort of alien craft, and that the aliens wont let any of them pass away the neighborhood.The boy goes on to mention that in a comic concur that he read, only the aliens sent d possess before the ballistic capsule would be able to leave the town and that they would look and act salutary exchangeable one of them (humans). I would person solelyy find this idea a farce, scarce the neighborhood entertains this idea after a man disappears to investigate the su cceeding(a) block over and doesnt re binge for hours. At this point, mass hysteria begins to collide with hold.The neighborhood becomes suspicious of their neighbors and begins to ostracize one another to figure out who the invaders are. When one neighbors car starts on its own, the mob is quick to question wherefore his car works but theirs dont. Another neighbor points out that she lots escorts the man standing out in his yard late at night, gazing up into the sky as if he were looking for something. Accusations continue to be passed around, with each neighbor pointing out something suspicious about the other.Are we beginning to see the theme here? As night falls, paranoia has taken over. Though some might argue that it would likely take more than one daylight for neighbors to act so rashly, its easy to e that in this confusion of an recondite event how effectively The Twilight Zone fast-forwards the like-minded mob prospect to communicate the episodes message. A figure app ears in the street, and one man thought process it to be some sort of invader-?raises a gun and kills the figure for all the mob to see.Its revealed to us that the figure was no monster at all, just the innocent neighbor that went to investigate the other blocks only couple of hours earlier. At this point, the mob accuses the man who shot their neighbor that hes the real monster-?maybe he wanted them dead all along. They throw stones at him and more chaos ensues. At the end of the episode the camera pans out to a spacecraft perched on a hill overlooking the neighborhood. Two aliens look on as the neighborhood rips itself apart.They discuss how easily man can be manipulated when you take away their technology and how quickly they turn on one other in times of great panic. The episode concludes with them mentioning how easy it go out be to conquer the species with this knowledge in hand. Personally I specify The Twilight Zone did an excellent job of showcasing how quickly we can tur n on one another in times of crisis. In my own experience with the military, Ive been in several situations where something went wrong and people began looking for others to blame.