his thoughts might not mean any Whatsapp Mobile Number List harm, coming perhaps from a place of innocence (Bixby 1953). In contrast, Anthony in the episode is aware of his actions and consequences, being six years old already. This suggests Whatsapp Mobile Number List that, in the show, conformity does not come just from indifference or true approval of the status quo, it is a conscious decision because of one’s inability to change reality: Peaksville’s Whatsapp Mobile Number List population needs to pretend to be happy all the time, otherwise Anthony could read their thoughts and ‘wish them
away’. With nowhere else to go, and being Whatsapp Mobile Number List powerless against the boy’s omnipotence and omniscience, conformity becomes the norm. Anthony can be interpreted as the embodiment of the status quo and the accepted morality of the 1950s: to go against his will is to risk your life. In a parallel manner, to question the status Whatsapp Mobile Number List quo in Cold War America was to risk being arrested or ostracized, and therefore punished. Schrecker (2002, 27) argues that, under the Truman administration, communists Whatsapp Mobile Number List shifted from simple political dissidents to criminals, obtaining all the implications this outlaw status brings. An example of this
parallel happens in the episode’s final Whatsapp Mobile Number List scenes: Dan, one of Anthony’s parents’ friends, begs for the others to help him kill Anthony, and he is quickly taken care of by the boy. By simply calling him “bad man” and then Whatsapp Mobile Number List transforming him into a jack-in-the-box, Anthony implies that Dan got what he deserved because he was bad. Anthony sees those who are not content with his reality as unwanted: “I hate anybody Whatsapp Mobile Number List that doesn’t like me,” the boy tells his dad. This display of what happens to those who oppose the boy is remarkably