Read the excerpt from Act 2 of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. 75. SERIES OF CLOSE SHOTS – PEOPLE 75. MAN ONE (shouting) It isn't the kid . . . It's Bob Weaver's house. WOMAN ONE It isn't Bob Weaver's house, it's Don Martin's place. CHARLIE I tell you it's the kid. DON It's Charlie. He's the one. Which best describes the effect of the stage directions in this excerpt? The stage directions demonstrate the fear of the people in the crowd who realize that aliens caused the outage. The stage directions highlight the fact that the crowd has realized exactly who is to blame for the outage. The stage directions emphasize the crowd mentality and the idea that everyone is making strong accusations. The stage directions illustrate that several singular people are making accusations, but the group intensity is dying down.