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How To Write An Essay On The Maze Runner

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The maze runner, by James Dashner is the first book in a thrilling post-apocalyptic science fiction trilogy.
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 …show more content…

Thomas has to join forces with the other gladers in order to figure out the maze and have a chance of escape. In an act of desperation, Thomas stings himself with a Griever in order for his memory to come back and learns the Griever Hole is an exit. A large group of them agree to make a run for it, and succeed, only to find out that what they've been doing is an experiment being conducted by the maybe evil, maybe not Creators, a group named WICKED. The boys and Teresa then get "rescued" by some kind of rebel group and brought to a safe haven while being told about "the Flare"—an apocalyptic occurrence that killed off half of the world's population. The Conclusion exposes

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