The play’s closing passage mainly suggests that .

Narrator’s Voice. The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices—to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children . . . and the children yet unborn. (A pause) And the pity of it is . . . that these things cannot be confined to . . . The Twilight Zone!
Answer choices for the above question

A. “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” is only a fictional story and any similarity to real events is unintentional

B. monsters from outer space are a threat to people in the modern world

C. the narrator was once a made a scapegoat for something himself

D. the kind of paranoia and violence that befell Maple Street also occurs in real life