How Does Thomas Become An Outcast Archetype?

Right from the start it was obvious to both the Gladers and the audience that Thomas and Gally were going to continuously clash throughout the movie. When Thomas first comes up in the box, he is shown from a high angle that makes him appear weak, small and frightened. This is reversed by the low angle point of view shot for Gally from Thomas’s position. This camera shot shows that Gally holds the power over Thomas and makes him look bigger than what he is. Throughout the beginning of the movie when Thomas is settling in to life in the Glade, Gally is shown from a lower angle compared to Thomas, as he still holds the majority of the power amongst the Gladers. These conflicting angles of dominant and submissive begin to change once Thomas starts challenging the norm and upsetting the balance of the Glade causing Gally to lose his grip

Thomas has many questions, but almost none get answered. As Thomas and Chuck are walking, Chuck plays a joke on someone in the bathroom and runs away. The person in the bathroom was Gally and he only sees Thomas. He says that he has seen him before, and because of this joke, Gally hates Thomas more. Later that night, he sees a person running very fast come out each of the four doors and go into a small concrete building in the middle of the Glade and he wants to know what they were doing. Thomas has a strong urge to become a runner, even though he doesn’t know what they do. He also starts to recognize The Glade and thinks he has been there before. The next morning Newt wakes Thomas up and shows him a Greiver, what seems to be a mix of an animal and a machine, through a window, trying to show Thomas why he should stay inside of the Glade. He also explains that there is a maze surrounding The Glade and every second the runners are awake, they are trying to solve it. Later, Alby will take Thomas on a tour

Throughout the novel Tom is shown as someone very arrogant and abrupt in the way he talks to people and feels he has the authority to question others in an interrogatory manner. In his first meeting with Nick he

Thomas seems to have a gift in his storytelling, they may seem like crazy stories he tells over and over but his stories may carry some kind of meaning. “We are all given one thing by which our lives are measured, one determination. Mine are the stories which can change or not change the world.” (Alexie P. 518) His stories about Victor’s father are why he went out of his way to help Victor. It took Victor a trip to Phoenix to see that Thomas was there for a reason, to help him because they were cousins.

Thomas did not have a very good teacher at school. His teacher was not willing to answer his questions and

In the maze, Thomas and a couple of other people were “runners” meaning that they had to try to find a way out of the maze. When they first wanted him to be a runner, he really did not want to do it. However, everyone had one goal: to find a way out. Therefore, Thomas did what he had to do and decided to accept the job. He did that because he then realized that he had to put others in front of himself, he could save the others.

"Thomas leaned back against the rough rock, overcome by disbelief at what he had just done. Filled with terror at what the consequences might be." (Dashner). He ran outside the Glades knowing he only had seconds to come back in until the thick, humongous walls closed shut for the night sealing the three Gladers outside. What is worse is this is at night, one extremely tired, one with an injured arm, and Thomas, an inexperienced Glader. They have no idea what they were going to expect. Thomas might have not know it, but he's crossing his very first threshold in the story.

Thomas is held prisoner in WICKED headquarters, but is then eventually released by Janson, who tells the Gladers and Group B that there’s a cure for the Flare. The Gladers were forced to retrieve their memories and remove the tracking devices from their heads. “I’m afraid we don’t have much of a choice, the time for lies are over. Nothing’s going to work with you three still in the dark. I’m sorry. We need to do this, [...]” (Dashner 46). Thomas, Minho, and Newt were the only ones who chose not to undergo the procedure because they didn’t trust WICKED. Without the devices, the WICKED headquarters wouldn’t be able to track where the Gladers are. All three of them escaped before having their tracking devices removed, with the help of the Right Arm.

Throughout the film, Thomas is shown through body language and dialogue to have a curious and strong personality. After he is placed in the maze, the first time that he speaks, he asks the question “What is this place?” showing immediately the childlike curiosity that he possess that none of the other Gladers have shown. Though only a few minutes into the film, the director; Wes Ball, is able to convey that Thomas has a very curious nature, setting him apart from the rest of the Gladers. It is assumed that Thomas is the first Glader to question deeply why they are there and why it is that they can’t leave. Within the first three days that he has been placed there, things begin to change, such as runners getting stung during the day and a girl

The romance narrative involves childhood, initiation, underworld, and temptation. . However, Dashner leaves out the childhood stage, where we connect and get to know the hero, in The Maze Runner. This allows Dashner to add a mysterious aspect to the movie that enhances the viewing experience. By starting the movie without getting to know Thomas in his childhood stages, Dashner takes the viewers on a dark and unknown adventure.

Imagine a world where kids are taken from their families and dropped into a foreign place. They have trouble surviving in a maze made by creators called Wicked. Many are scared and act guarded. “Think about what we were all like in the beginning. Huddling in corners, disoriented, crying every hour, not trusting anybody, refusing to do anything. We were all like that, for weeks or months, till we had no choice but to shuck it and live” (Dasher 155-156). In this world, you have to fight just to stay alive or keep your sanity. A world full of pain of not knowing if you're going to wake up the next morning. In the Maze Runner by James Dasher, Wicked influenced Thomas negatively because they put him in a test where they spied on him, put him in

Author James Dashner tells the story of a teen, who faces all impossible odds to find a way out of the nightmare he had arrived in. Dashner creates the strong character Thomas, with curiosity, a clever wit, and bravery in book The Maze Runner. He learned as much as he could about his new home and the people there to find a way, any way, back to his old, unknown life.

Later on, Thomas is attacked by one of the Glader’s Ben. What is strange about this event is that Ben has been infected by a Griever and s not in the right state of mind. Strangely Thomas couldn’t seem to stop thinking about the maze and becoming a runner. Later on, Thomas meets a runner and learns that there is an abnormality in the maze; a Griever has been found dead. This ignites Thomas’s thoughts about the maze and leads the story into a great

seems to appreciate all the things Thomas has done for him it is not easy to accept him as a friend.

Thomas cannot remain loyal to his friends or even his own family who is closer than his friends. This shows that he would rather go with the crowd than rather trying to be an individual like Peter. In addition, at the end of the Movie Thomas beats up Peter because he was dancing as a Swing Kid. If Thomas was a true friend he would have just told him to leave and nothing would have happened but he just had to fight him. Thomas joined the HJ because of Peter but Thomas and Peter thought two different ways and they each went there separate ways also. As soon as Thomas joined the HJ’s his look on everything changed dramatically but Peters look did not change it just made them grow farther apart.