2024年4月27日发(作者：2021烟雾头怎么调win7)

Unit 7 The Shelter

Rod Serling

Several neighbors hope to find safety in the only bomb shelter on their street when an

announcement comes over the radio that enemy missiles are approaching. Can it shelter

all of them? Does its owner let them in?

Here is the story……

SYNOPSIS OF ACT ONE: On a summer evening, a birthday celebration is going on at

Dr. Stockton's. Among those present are his neighbors: the Hendersons, the weiss's and

the Harlowes. In the midst of it comes unexpectedly over the radio the announcement of

the President of the United States declaring a state of emergency of for suspected enemy

missiles approaching. The party breaks up and the neighbors hurry home.

However, shortly afterwards they return one after another to the stockton house for the

simple reason that they want to survive —— want to share with the Stocktons the bomb

shelter which is the only one on their street.

ACT TWO

(abridged)

OUTSIDE STOCKTON HOME

HENDERSON: It'll land any minute. I just know it. It's going to land any minute——

MRS. HENDERSON: (grabs hold of him) What are we going to do?

Throughout above and following dialogue, a portable radio carried by one of the children

carries the following announcement:

ANNOUNCER'S VOICE: This is Conelrad. This is Conelrad. We are still in a state of

Yellow Alert. If you are a public official or government employee with an emergency

assignment, or a civil defense worker, you should report to your post immediately. If you

are a public official or government employee……

MRS. HARLOWE: Jerry, ask again.

HARLOWE: Don't waste you time. He won't let anyone in. He said he didn't have any

room or supplies there and it's designed for three people.

SON: What'll we do?

HARLOWE: Maybe we ought to pick out just one basement and go to work on it. Poll all

our stuff. Food, water, everything.

E: It isn't fair. (she points toward Stockton house) He's down there in a

bomb shelter completely safe. And our kids have to just wait around for a bomb to drop

and ——

HENDERSON: Let's just go down into his basement and break down the door?

A chorus of voices greet this with assent.

As HENDERSON rushes through toward the basement entrance, HARLOWE overtakes

him saying:

HARLOWE: Wait a minute, wait a minute. All of us couldn't fit in there. That would be

crazy to even try.

WEISS: Why don't we draw lots? Pick out one family?

HARLOWE: What difference would it make? He won't let us in.

HENDERSON: We can all march down there and tell him he's got the whole street

against him. We could do that.

HARLOWE: What good would that do? I keep telling you. Even if we were to break down

the door, it couldn't accommodate all of us. We'd just be killing everybody and for no

reason.

MRS. HENDERSON: If it saves even one of these kids out here——I call that a reason.

The voice comes up again.

WEISS: Jerry, you know him better than nay of us. You're his best friend. Why don't you

go down again? Try to talk to him. Pleased with him. Tell him to pick out one family ——

Draw lots or something ——

HENDERSON: One family, meaning yours, Weiss, huh?

WEISS: (whirls around to him) Why not? I've got a three-month-old infant——

MRS. HENDERSON: What difference does that make? Is your baby's life any more

precious than our kids?

WEISS: (shouting at her) I never said that. If you're going to start trying to argue about

who deserves to live more than the next one ——

HENDERSON: Why don't you shut your mouth, Weiss? (with a wild, illogical anger)

That's the way it is when the foreigners come over here. Aggressive, greedy,

semi-Americans——

WEISS: (his face goes white) Why you garbage-brained idiot you——