Book Summary: The Glade By James Dashner

Travis Bakker Mrs. Kriegbaum The Maze Runner- 375 pages Fear can cause people to do two things: overcome the impossible or to fall short of what someone is capable of doing. In most cases, fear is a obstacle and causes more damage than good. In The Maze Runner, Thomas arrived in a village of boys his age, called the Glade, and had no recollection of where he has come from or anything about himself.

Thomas is the narrator and protagonist of the story. He arrives in the maze with no knowledge of who he is or was. He only remembers his name and nothing else about his life. Thomas proves to be brave and clever even though he only has a very limited memory of previous knowledge of the Maze. Since arriving in the maze, Thomas makes both friends and enemies and proves to be a leader among the other boys with him in the maze.

The character Thomas from “ This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix, Arizona.” is keeping his word by watching over Victor when he most needs it. Thomas is a guy no one really likes and talk to because he is always telling random stories, people see him as a crazy person. In reality Thomas is very humble, because after Victor beating him up for no reason one day, Thomas still decided to help Victor when he was most in need of it.

To me, the ending of this book is one of the best endings I personally have ever read. My favorite part of this book is where Tuck, May, Jesse, Miles, and Winnie were setting in the kitchen of the Tucks home eating flapjacks, and the man in the yellow suit shows up at the Tucks home…

Starting in Chapter 6 Gladwell presents us with the mysterious and seemingly inexplicable series of events that occurred in Harlan, Kentucky in the 19th century to introduce the enormous effect of cultural legacies.

An example of Thomas being brave is going into the maze at night. Also, If Thomas were to live he would be the first to live through it in the history of the maze. His braveness is shown when the book said “Thomas knew he had no choice. He moved forward and stepped into the maze” (Dashner, 112). When Thomas went to the maze and he had no clue what he was about to do or about to witness that show’s true bravery.

Thomas character is being a HERO and a VERY INTELLIGENT PERSON. He was a really good doctor for THOUSANDS of BABY’S because he was the one that saved them all. At the beginning of the story

In chapter four, Gladwell focuses on Spontaneity and how important it is for snap judgments. He clarifies that Spontaneity is not a random process like many people think. “Improvisation comedy is a wonderful example of the kind of thinking that Blink is about. It involves people making very sophisticated decisions on the spur of the moment, without the benefit of any kind of script or plot”. Gladwell finds that Improvisation would not work unless you follow certain rules; he explains that it has some kind of structure and not as random as it seems.

Gladwell pick up a Canadian youth hockey team in 2007. Also, he tells about Rpger Barnesly who is a Canadian Psychologist. He noticed that most of the players were born in January, February and march. On the other hand, few player on the team born between October and December. This is happening in other teams either. Gladwell was fill in the date of birth instead of the name even major hockey tournament.

Gladwell writes in this passage about how the way people think can be crazy and altered based on where they come from. People might disagree with this and he brings that up saying “ we are often wary of making these kinds of broad generalizations about different cultural groups” and far point to bring up. However he knows and isn’t afraid to say statements a little out there. Gladwell in his writing I have noticed brings up points that people don’t also want to or even recognize. He bring up honor which can be wounded very easily just as easy as people’s pride. Another thing people don’t like to talk about unless they are boasting about it but when it is hurt blood will be shed. Which is in fact deranged to think that people can’t put away

In the heart-pounding book, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, Thomas, the main character, mysteriously appears in a place called The Glades. “He was consumed with curiosity but still felt too ill to look closely at his surroundings.” (pg 5). Thomas doesn't know how he got to The Glades and has forgotten who he is. He isn't alone, there are dozens of teenagers, even adults who also have no memory. Thomas asks questions, but questioning will get him killed by the Keepers. “Massive stone walls, hundreds of feet high, moving like sliding glass doors.” (pg 28). Every night the walls move as if they where closing in all the teenagers. Thomas is standing there watching the walls move and sees someone running towards the Glades trying to make it before the walls close. Chuck tells Thomas that those are the Runners running back in from the Maze, it looked like they where running from something that is trying

There is always something going on. The part that really drew me in was when they first go into the maze I wasn’t to sure on what was going to happen. The questions that popped in my head while reading are: are they going to escape the Glade, what happens after Thomas killed the Griever, do Thomas and the other boys make it back into the Glade alive, and do Thomas and Teresa (she's the only female inside of Thomas’s Glade) fall in love? At some parts the book dragged on, but it wasn’t like that for too long. I mainly had good experiences while reading this book.

Thomas wakes up in an elevator with no memory of his past, and when the doors open, he's surrounded by teenage boys who inhabit the Glade - an enclosed encampment right in the middle of a deadly stone maze. Like Thomas, the Gladers don't have any memories except their names, or know how or why they are there. All they know is that each morning when the walls open, they have to risk everything - even the Grievers, half-animal, half-machine horrors that patrol its corridors, to try and find out. A day after Thomas's coming, a girl is sent through the elevator and into the Glade. But, unlike the boys, she shows up mumbling a forewarning and then lapses into a coma. To make things worse, her arrival triggers the end in the Glade, and everything starts changing: the deliveries of

There are many startle factors and twists throughout the movie that keep the watcher interested and wanting more. One of them is how Thomas, Alby, and Minho survive a night in the dangerous maze, even though every boy in the glade doubts that they will, even Minho. While watchers might have suspected that they would survive and possibly see a griever, many watchers might not have suspected Thomas to come so close to dying to squish the griever between two closing walls. “He didn't just see it. He killed it.”

The ending of the book was very disappointing to me. I really enjoyed reading about how his mother was in pure denial and wanted to keep her son near her forever and how his father knew how hard it would be but he also knew that