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Essay On The Maze Runner

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Maze Runner by James Dashner is about a place called the Glade where boys are sent with their memories erased. No one knows why or how they were sent there or how they are supposed to escape. It is enclosed place surrounded by a maze that opens during the day and closes at night. At night creatures called Grievers come out in the maze and no one has ever survived them. The main character is Thomas and after he is sent there lots of strange things begin to happen. Also, the first girl ever to come to the Glade, a girl named Teresa shows up and she is in a coma. Thomas is the first person to survive overnight in the maze and when Teresa wakes up she tells everyone that her and Thomas are the last ones and they have to find a way out soon. Suddenly the maze …show more content…

Chuck ends up being Thomas’s best friend when he comes to the Glade. He’s about 12 years old and he is a really cute, funny character in the story. He tries his best to help out Thomas, and Thomas promises him that he will help him get out of the maze and get him home. In the end Chuck sadly ends up dying but he is still by far my favorite character in the book. My favorite scene with Chuck is when he plays a prank on another one of the boys and then Thomas gets blamed for it. I think he made the book more fun. I really liked how the book wasn’t slow and hard to read. Within the first chapter it had already caught my attention and I wanted to continue reading. It had a lot of mysteries that throughout the book slowly unfolded so that I had to keep reading all the way to the end to figure everything out. One of my favorite passages in the book is when everything starts to go wrong and they realize they have a small chance of surviving. It is when Thomas is talking to Teresa. “She smiled for the first time, and he almost had to look away, as if something that nice didn’t belong in such a glum and gray place, as if he had no right to look at her

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