common theme for multiple dystopian pieces. Scott Westerfeld 's Uglies, Joelle Charbonneau 's The Testing, Liam Hughes ' The Social Classes, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 's Harrison Bergeron, and Wes Ball 's interpretation of The Maze Runner all have social discrimination integrated into their story lines. Despite the many problems in dystopian societies, authors also present the classic hero that rises above those issues and works to rebuild their government or community. However, a hero isn 't just born, they…

Recently, society has seen an increase in young adult novels featuring dystopian societies as seen in the Hunger Games, Divergent, and The Maze Runner. While these types of novels have become prominent, this increase should not be attributed to the quality of the writing in these novels, but should be attributed to the highly technological setting. The novels all contain futuristic societies in which technology suppresses human emotions. Furthermore, this theme of repressing emotions transcends…

A bunch of teenage boys are in a maze for an experiment and they have no memory of their lives, except how to do things like speak and they know everything they learned before like algebra, etc. They live in the center of the maze and quickly set it up so they can live there. They have a little farm, there were animals like cows, pigs, etc., and one dog. The Gladers, what they called themselves, also set up a slaughter house so they could produce some of their own food and not just rely on the Box…

October 11, 2013 Period 1 Maze Runner Book Report 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. Teresa is a teenage…

main idea of the story is that the Gladers need to get out of the Maze. At first you see all the Gladers doing different jobs to help each other survive. One of the jobs is a runner. Runners go out into the Maze and they map it, trying to figure out a way to get out of the Maze. They leave a sunrise and come back during meals. Thomas wants to become a runner, and eventually he does, after saving Alby and showing Newt, Alby, and Minho that he does have the skills to become a runner. Thomas learns the…

From grades three to about eight, I read almost every night and I read so much that I got in trouble quite a lot for reading. I haven’t read a whole lot in the past few years because there haven’t really been any series that interested me. The Maze Runner series was really good and I read that last year. The last good series before that was the Gone series. In addition to books, I spent, and still do spend, a lot of time on the internet reading about topics that interest me. I’m constantly looking…

SETTING The Maze Runner is taken place in the post-apocalyptic era. The characters are in the middle of a massive maze. The shelter in the middle is called the Glade. PLOT The Maze Runner is about a boy named Thomas who is brought to a place called the Glade. He arrives there in a big elevator that they call the Box. Thomas has no memory about how he got in the Box or who he is. The only thing he knows is his name. When he gets out of the Box he is greeted by a group of about 50 teenage boys…

cure to the Flare. After they were taken from their home, they were forced to attend a special school that taught them the skills they needed to survive the Maze. Once they were ready, all of their memories, except their survival skills, were swiped. They then were sent in a metal elevator to the Glade – a large space surrounded by a great maze - first in one, large group; after that, they were sent one at a time, once a month. The Gladers were given basics, such as clothes, materials to make food…

flesh eaters. Not only has the virus taken the lives of millions, but the extreme climates have also killed the few remaining. In the novels The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials, Thomas and his friends will have to fight to survive a world taken over by the sick and protect one other from those who say they want to help. The two novels share a touching story of young lives entwined during a difficult time and the lengths the characters go through in order to survive the apocalypse. The ultimate question…

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…