Essay On The Maze Runner

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.

In the beginning, the main character, Thomas, has his memory wiped so he doesn’t know anything. Over time though, he begins to accept where he is (the Glade) and that the people in the Glade have nothing but each other. Thomas also adapts to the Glade’s slang, and talks like a Glader. He also saves the lives of some Gladers who are his friends, such as Alby. At the end Thomas became a sort of leader, trying to make the best decisions when the rest of the Gladers didn’t know what to do. Thomas talks to the other Gladers like someone would talk to their friends or family, and Thomas does his best to help protect the Gladers. Thomas is hard and cold to the people from WICKED, as at the end one of their workers kills Chuck, one of Thomas’s

The Hunger Games, A book series by Suzanne Collins, differs in few ways from Veronica Roth’s Divergent. The Hunger Games lead role, Katniss Everdeen, lives in a world of few choices. The government controls the lives of everybody in the 12 districts. When Katniss’ little sister, Primrose, is chosen to fight in the annual Hunger Games, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She is forced to fight and forced to kill, all to survive. This competition results in the people fearing not only their government, but also their futures. Katniss becomes a symbol of rebellion against the

Young adult fiction is a unique area in its own way, and one that incorporates forms of lives not common in society. The book, Maze Runner is a typical example of adult fiction in which the author presents scenarios involving various forms of life, which readers can learn from and apply to their own, as well. To begin with, by reading this book in class, students will not only learn about magic and terror, but also about sorrow, bravery, friendship as well as suffering in attempts to find redemption. Everything about this book is fictional but subsequent events from previous ones make things even more real. In the beginning, fiction is achieved when the main character, Thomas,

The terrifying nature of freedom causes individuals to assimilate into society out of fear. Societies thus take advantage of this by oppressing individuals to maintain stability. In George Orwell’s 1984, which is based on a rundown city called Oceania, the proles always accept everything that the party tells them without any questions. They let the government completely control their lives without hesitation. The Maze Runner by James Dashner also exhibits oppressive environments and individuals who accept these societies. In the Maze Runner, the people in the maze are all trapped in a maze, limiting where they can go and what they can do. Both 1984 and The Maze Runner exhibit the oppressive nature of society and how accepting to be controlled

The second reason why the novel “The Maze Runner by James Dashner” is related our society today the government is slowly controlling us but later in the future they will be the ones control everyone and everything. In the novel they controlled them but putting them in the maze and study their brains they would not let them out until they found their way back out. James Dashner states on page 177 “ But then again, no one’s ever tried to tell us what they remember during the changing. They always refuse. Alby tried to--- must be why he went nuts for a while. “ Thomas paused in the middle of chewing. Could the people behind the maze control them somehow? It was terrifying thought. “We have to

People do not have to fly to be hero, it takes much more. Many heroes of today are shown to have supernatural powers that makes them acquire amazing abilities, flying, super strength, skills to manifest anything, the list goes on. Our heroes in the present time are perceived by the audiences' mindset to have special powers but there are times where being a hero does not need to have all the extra tricks. Thomas, a character in The Maze Runner is thrown unconsciously with no memory into a place of the unknown called the Glades, consisting of only teenagers inhabiting the area. He would soon find out the whole place is bordered by a big wall that closes by night and day to protect them from the maze that are filled with demonic

The main setting of “The Maze Runner” is in a place called the Glade. It is the size of a few foot ball fields and is surrounded by four giant walls built of gray stone that is covered in ivy. There is a farmhouse, a meeting place for the runners, a forest, a graveyard, a homestead where people sleep, a kitchen, a giant hole that gets filled with a new person every month, and the entrance to a gigantic maze with walls like the ones that surround the Glade. The people are all stuck in the glade because the maze changes every day and no one can find an exit.

The novel Fahrenheit 451 and the motion picture The Hunger Games are more alike than they are different. The prime similarity between the two, is the concept of a Dystopian society. To start, the novel Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury takes place in a futuristic United States where books are forbidden. This is unusual to us, considering that reading is a part of everyone’s daily lives.

The Hunger Games promotes the idea of a total government control. The Capitol controls everything that the twelve districts do. The world of Panem is divided into 12 districts where each district has its own role to fulfill from luxury to coal mining. "Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch. This is the Capitol's way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy" (Collins 18). This shows that the districts all pay a yearly sacrifice to the Capitol in the form of tributes. Another of showing that the Games is a dystopian society is that any evidence of an act of rebellion will result in the government having to kill anyone who gets in their way. "Look how he take your children and sacrifice them there is nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District 13" (18).

“Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.” These words said by Suzanne Collins refer to the setting of her trilogy The Hunger Games. The influence for her trilogy was the war in Iraq that was going on at the time. Collins was flipping between a reality tv-show and a channel broadcasting the war, and she came up with the idea for the plot of her novel The Hunger Games. Collins drew upon the period of time that her father was in the military and hearing about his experiences to influence this trilogy. She decided to discuss war in her books because she thought children needed to understand it at an earlier age than

Alby is a dynamic character in the story the Maze Runner. The drastic changes that Alby went through after the Changing are clearly apparent. He is the dynamic character because in the beginning of the story he is nice and also strict and is a leader that manages the Glade. After getting stung by the griever and going through the Changing he becomes very different. He doesn’t want to be the leader and he becomes depressed, crazy and acts differently. It seems like he becomes a whole new person.

The first chapter of “The Maze Runner” really gets me excited for the rest of the book. I enjoy how it leaves the reader plenty of room to wonder what will happen later in the book. It has an interesting vocabulary that includes some of the slang words that the people of the glade made up. It seems that the plot of the book will quicken very quickly as already there is a lot of foreshadowing hinting toward some unknown beast and a giant maze. I predict that Thomas’s arrival will trigger some sort of issue that he will have to resolve. Just the first chapter has gotten me very excited for the rest of the book.

Present in both novels is the amount of authority that the government has over the civilians. In our time, the government holds authority but does not fully control one’s actions. In a dystopian society, the government controls the people, telling them what they can and cannot do, and going as far as forcing them to participate in things that they disagree with. In The Hunger Games, the government has people referred to as The Peacekeepers, which can be compared to modern-day police. “They are in charge of ensuring the people stay within their district without breaking the rules.” As shown in 1984, their version of police, known as the Thought Police, has a similar goal to the Peacekeepers. Both groups watch the people, recording their actions, and compare them to the rest to see if they are odd and

The famous book The Maze Runner by James Smith Dashner, is the famous story about a young man named Thomas who wakes up in the middle of a metallic box that serves as an elevator with no memory of his past, the box opens up to a place called “the Glade” with 60 other boys staring back at him as he tries to run away pass them. Every thirty days a new boy or supplies arrive from the box and for three years they have lived together trying to find clues through the maze that surrounds them; but as they start losing hope it all changes when something unprecedented happens and a girl along with a note arrive through the box. The book along with amazing imagery and relevance to today’s world manages to attract more than just teenagers but anybody that is up for the challenge of the maze, and that is just the purpose of this paper to demonstrate multiple reason of why this book not only deserves to be read but it should hold a place in the literary canon.