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James Dashner's The Maze Runner

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For literary fanatics who enjoy the novels by James Dashner, The Maze Runner is a great offering for young adults who enjoy action and fiction. The Maze Runner follows the adventure of Thomas throughout the Glade with his newly made friends Alby, Newt, Chuck, Teresa Agnes, and Minho, as they search for a way out of the giant ivy maze hoping to find the answers they’re looking for. With his new friend Chuck, Thomas tries to learn why he is in the Glade and why no one will answer his questions. He later learned that the only way out of the Glade was through the giant ivy maze. The ivy maze was more complicated than any other maze because it was protected by Grievers, (giant robot forms that can easily kill a person) and every night the maze walls rearranged, making the maze different every day. Every …show more content…

Just as Thomas was about pass his runner training, everything changed when a girl named Teresa Agnes entered the Glade. The sun disappeared, supplies from the creators stopped coming, and at night the maze doors did not close so Grievers could wonder around the Glade freely. Thomas seemed to have a connection with Teresa, but he could not figure out why. Thomas learned that he and Teresa could somehow communicate to each other telepathically. As Thomas ran throughout the maze Teresa gave him clues about the maze to further help him. Each night since Teresa arrived, the Grievers took one person from the Glade each night. Alby realized that they needed to find the exit to the maze fast. Minho suggested that the rearrangement of the walls each night would reveal a code that would help them exit the Glade. Minho gathered all of the information collected about the maze and found that when they were all put together they revealed a code. Thomas knew that the only place to punch the code in was inside Griever hole. Griever hole was where all of the Grievers lived and was incredibly hard to get

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