The Glade Chapter Summary

Her name is Teresa. Teresa tells everyone that everything is about to change, then succumbs to a coma. Thomas feels a connection to her, but can’t figure out where he knows her from. Thomas then decides that he wants to be a Runner, Gladers who go out into the Maze in an attempt to map it and find a way out. While exploring the Maze, Alby is stung by a Griever. Minho, the leader of runners, attempts to get him back into the Glade before the walls close but they are not going to make it. Thomas sees them, then races out to help and becomes trapped outside in the Maze with them. The Maze is most dangerous at night because that is when the Grivers are most active. Despite being the most experienced, Minho panics and runs away leaving Thomas and Alby. Through wits and skill, Thomas manages to save himself with alby, and survive the night in the Maze. That made Thomas a hero and from that, Minho convinces the other Gladers to allow Thomas to become a Runner trainee. Thomas then begins training under Minho. He learns how the Runners map the Maze, looking for patterns to the maze every day. Thomas also visits Teresa who is still comatose. She begins to communicate with him telepathically and tells Thomas that she has triggered the end. The next day the sun has disappeared from the sky, replaced with a dull gray sky. Thomas realizes that the Glade is a fabricated place and that the sky was never real. Teresa tells

The Maze Runner by James Dashner is an action, adventure, science fiction book. It is about a teenager named Thomas, who arrives in an enclosed environment with no memory of his past. He lives with other teenagers, all boys. Everyday, they try to figure out a way to escape the maze, and seek freedom, but Thomas figured a way out. All of the gladers (the nickname of the people, due to them living in a place called the glade) ran out in the maze, most of them were killed by grievers (monsters that live in the maze), but some of them survived including Thomas. The survivors escaped the maze.

Regardless, the journey south continues where they find a house, full of valuables for the cold weather that the boy and father are able to garner. In this short time a group of cannibals arrive to the house they are in, and it is revealed that they are keeping a hoard of humans locked up in a cellar to feast on. Though the father is not as shocked as he would have liked to have been, the boy is absolutely horrified and is the key moment where the boy realizes that the world truly is dead. Both the father and son are able to sneak out of the house undetected, and are forced to wait in a bush near the house to keep from alerting anyone inside of their presence. Once they get back on the road, they stumble upon a patch of land full of apples, and a barn, which has fresh water stored underneath it. The spoils of their journey does the job in refreshing both the father and son, and gets them to their next destination. Arriving at a house that the father has decided they will camp at, he goes to do some exploring. In the exploring he manages to find a bomb shelter, never before plundered for its goods. The father and the boy load their cart full with food and wait a few days to spoil themselves at the bomb shelter. Once back on the road they run into an old man whom does not mean trouble unlike every other character in the road, but instead is seemingly lifeless and

After finally being rescued from the Maze’s death trap, the Gladers were able to take a break from the chaos of the world. Their break was short-lived, and soon the Gladers realized the madness that the world has fallen into. In their sleep, each person was magically tattooed with questionable messages, and their companion Teresa was swapped for an equally strange boy, Aris. They start to see abnormalities in that

Thomas enters the Glade the same way a baby is welcomed into the world. They come out with no memories of the womb and they do not know anything, not even their name. Therefore, they are confused, like Thomas and just want to cry. Slowly, however, they are taught things until they can function on their own. This helps show that one of the symbols in The Maze Runner is the maze itself, as it symbolizes life and how complex it is. As life does not follow one rule but instead has many obstacles and Unforeseen events which is like the twists and turns in the maze. In life there are the nice straight paths these are when nothing is wrong and life seems easy. Then there are times where there are twists and turns, this is when in your life a hard

When his mother becomes sick, Thomas takes care of her. When Thomas goes to school, he starts to not care as much because he is alone and would rather live at his lodge still but he still learns

Thomas gradually discovers that the Glade is run by two boys, Alby and Newt, who maintain order by enforcing strict rules and keeping all of

This quote is important to the plot development as we discover that Thomas thinks he has been/seen the glade before although he can't remember anything specific. It is these suspicions that lead Thomas to discovering more about the glade and devising an escape plan.

Thomas wakes up in a metal box that rises him up from the underground to the land above known as the Glade. He has no memory of anything, anyone, or even where he is. The only thing he remembers is his name. Thomas, once discovering where he is and who these boys are around him he comes to the realization of who is in charge of the place. It is led by two of the elder boys; Alby, the leader, and Newt, the second-in-charge. Every week the box in the middle of the glade surfaces from beneath the ground to supply the boys with new food, tools and weapons. But every month a new boy with no memory arrives in the metal box. Outside of their cozy glade surrounded by the wall is a maze, a labyrinth filled with mile high concrete walls that change every

Upon entering their tent, Private Trip tells Private Thomas to move over. Thomas refuses and Trip thinks that because Thomas was a free man, his mother was a free woman, and could he could read meant that he was better than the rest of them. Trip is upset about this and calls Thomas “Snowflake” because he could talk, dress, and act like a white man. Trip also nags the drummer boy staying in their tent. He tells the boy to tell him his name but the little boy doesn’t respond. Trip tells him to say his name, but Private Rowell interjects and says that the boy is

Thomas, voluntarily saves one of the Glader's who was injured coming back from the maze. Consequently, in the time he saved him, he fails at getting him back home.

When Thomas arrived at the glade he was dazed and confused. He had no idea where he was or why he was there. He was still baffled because he couldn't remember anything.

Gladding’s begins with Ezekiel’s encounter and sharing of the news of the Temple and Jerusalem is described. The tension is heavy for the crowd does know that hearing the stories of their failing kings brings much anger and sadness. Rehoboam and his advisors’ wickedness is introduced to the crowd, and the crowd responds with distaste, since Rehoboam acted more like the official in Egypt. Rehoboam was credited by the old man for listening to the prophet that informed him to not fight Jeroboam and the northern tribes. Abijam, Rehoboam’s son, followed his father’s wicked ways by practicing evil activities that the surrounding cultures committed. The old man then reminds the crowd that the Lord sent many prophets to the kings in order for the Lord’s

The Tour starts at the Box, which is closed. Alby explains that they get a new kid once a month and supplies are delivered once a week. Other than that, they don't know anything about where the Box goes or how it operates. Once, they tried to send a boy back in it, but the Box wouldn't move until he got out. Next he explains that the Glade is divided into four sections: Gardens, Blood House, Homestead, and Deadheads. Thomas will spend the next two weeks training for a different job until they find the one he fits best. Throughout the Tour, Thomas is annoyed by his inability to ask questions, and he wonders why the people who cleared his memory only removed certain memories. Why can he remember what the animals were called, but not where that memory comes from? When they reach the South Door, Alby tells Thomas that he's been there for two years, and although many boys have died trying, no one has been able to solve the Maze. The walls move at night so it's nearly impossible to map, and more importantly, no one is ever allowed outside the walls except the Runners. For some

to the older members of the Glade, usually involving going into the maze or other