Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.
GOODMAN
Now wait a minute! You just keep your distance there! What kind of nonsense is this? Because I've got a generator that works—what's that make me? Some kind of criminal or something? I don't know why the generator's working. It's just working, that's all!
46. GROUP SHOT – ANOTHER ANGLE 46.
As the people exchange looks. They've all arrived there on an emotion and when hit with a simple question of logic they can't answer.
Which part of the excerpt best foreshadows that the characters’ actions later in the narrative will be guided by feelings rather than reason?
“Now wait a minute! You just keep your distance there!”
“Because I've got a generator that works—what's that make me? Some kind of criminal or something?”
“I don't know why the generator's working. It's just working, that's all!”
They've all arrived there on an emotion and when hit with a simple question of logic they can't answer.
