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Maze Runner Theme Essay

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The novel The Maze Runner by James dashner is a dramatic, breathtaking, cliff hanger. James is known for writing adventure, survival books for young teens. The Maze Runner is Dashner’s most widely distributed book. It reached 100 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.
The story kicks off when Thomas, a teenager, arrives in a glade at the center of a giant maze. Similar to all the other men dumped before him, Thomas has no memory of his previous life. The glade is run by two boys Alby and Newt, who maintain order of all the boys. Outside the glade, consist of a terrifying labyrinth home of lethal creatures known as grievers. A day after the arrival of Thomas a girl is delivered to the glade.Unlike all of the boys she shows up saying weird gibberish and lapse into a coma. If that isn’t already strange enough, her arrival causes the Glad to change; the sun disappears, the supplies stop coming, and the doors stay open at night. This allows for the grievers to pick kids off one by one. Soon after, Thomas came up with a bright idea, …show more content…

All of the kids in the glade are scared of what is behind those walls protecting them, knowing no one has ever survived against a griever. “If you aint scared; alby said you ain't human. Act any different and i'd throw you off the cliff because it'll mean your psycho(25).” Everyone in the glade is scared of death, but that is a normal thing considering the situation they are in. Minho breaks down under the threat of death,”You don't understand, shuck-face! You don't know anything, and you're just making it worse by trying to have hope! Were dead you hear me? Dead(117).” They live in constant fear and threat of death. Teresa renshurs Thomas after Chuck is killed, “He died saving you, Teresa said. He made the choice himself. Just don't ever waste it(371).” Chuck was just one of many kids that were killed in this novel. Death is a common thing we see in this book, and it creates a major

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