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

VOICES

How could he know?

Who told him?

Make the kid answer.

Etc.

CONTINUED

70. CONTINUED 70.

The crowd starts to converge around the mother who grabs the child and starts to run with him. The crowd starts to follow, at first walking fast, and then running after him.

Based on the stage directions, what is occurring in this scene?

Key events - what happens? what do we learn about the character in this event? or how does the event change the character? what is the author’s message in each set of events you have identified? 1.bruno and his family move from berlin to auschwitz due to the move he learns of the camp which leads to another key event. 2.bruno meets shmuel when they meet, they become friends which in turn towards the end leads to their untimely demise.