The Maze In The Book The Glade's The Maze Runner

Thomas is a unique person and is capable of accomplishing more than others can even dream of. Since he is capable of doing so much, he needs to learn to control his mouth or he will create enemies very fast. Thomas should have been too scared and timid, but being driven by adulation he was able to accomplish what others

After finding out that there was a way to leave the Glade and into the maze, which he had dreamed of doing since he descended into the maze, Thomas wholeheartedly accepted the commitment and responsibility to join it, to be a runner, to run into the maze during the day memorizing the movement of the walls and mapping them out to find a solution to destroying the maze. Before proceeding into the maze, Thomas reflects on his decision: “Thomas swallowed, wondering how he could ever go out there. His desire to become a runner had taken a major blow. But he had to do it. Somehow he knew he had to do it. It was such an odd thing to feel, especially after what he'd just seen . . . he somehow felt it in his bones. But nothing about this place made any sense. Except for one thing. He was supposed to be a Runner” (Dashner 39). Even after seeing the maze and experiencing it first hand through a full in the night, he puts his fears aside and take on this responsibility that he feels. Thomas feels that that he has an obligation to join the Runners, regardless of the dangers that come with running the maze. Unlike the other Gladers, Thomas wants to make a difference. The boys definitely see him as different, Chuck even explains to Thomas why that is, “oh gee let me think. First you go out in the maze when you’re not supposed to, at night. Then you turn into some kind of freaky jungle dude, climbing vines and tying people up on the walls. Nect you become one of the first people ever to survive an entire night outside the Glade, and to top it all off you kill four grievers. Can’t imagine what those Shanks are talking about” (Dashner 148). Most of the Gladers don’t trust Thomas because he’s different than they are, he doesn’t just accept what the other Gladers accepted. Thomas brings new skills and ideas to the Glade that they didn’t have before. He was unique and

When I was reading the Maze Runner I made some connections. When Thomas went out into the maze, why would he do

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

In the movie, after the gladers got out of the maze, Gally, a glader, shows up and is holding a gun. It says that they are not supposed to leave. He was aiming to shoot Thomas, but Chuck, a glader, jumps in front of the bullet. Gally gets stabbed by a sharp wooden stick by Minho, a glader. A group of people enters and takes the gladers away by a helicopter. Though, in the book, after the gladers come out from the maze, into a building, they meet a woman from the creators of the Maze starts talking to them. Then suddenly Gally comes out and throws a knife at Thomas, but Chuck jumps in front of Thomas and gets stabbed instead of Thomas. Thomas breaks down and cries, because of his promise to Chuck that he will get him out of the Maze. He Knocks down Gally. The rescues come, killed the creators and told the gladers to run out of this room. They all rush into the bus. Before moving, the woman, from the creators, stands in front of the bus, and tries to stop them from leaving. The driver ignores her and drives over her. One of the rescuers explain to Thomas why they were put in the Maze, and what happened to the world. He introduced the disease that hit Earth called the

Ever." This scares all the gladers pointing the blame at Thomas since things began going wrong since his arrival. The girl slips into a coma and when Thomas comes to visit her, he hears her voice telepathically in his head speaking out to him. She wakes up and informs Thomas that they’ve known each other before their arrival from the maze. Ever since she showed up she “pulled the switch” that made everything in the Maze begin to change. Soon the sun disappears, the deliveries from the metal box stop arriving, and the doors of the Maze stay open all night, which allows the Grievers to enter and kill the gladers one by one. Thomas suggests that the movement of the walls in the Maze aren't just at random but a code. He also uncovers the mystery that of which where the grievers stay and that happens to be ‘The Cliff’ or the ‘Griever Hole’. Thomas explains that if the Grievers can go down the cliff and come up each night then so can the gladers. Most of the Gladers decide to make a run for it down the griever hole, even though it could be suicide taking the Grievers head on, but they figured that staying in the Glade would lead to their death for

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.

In the heart-pounding book, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, Thomas, the main character, mysteriously appears in a place called The Glades. “He was consumed with curiosity but still felt too ill to look closely at his surroundings.” (pg 5). Thomas doesn't know how he got to The Glades and has forgotten who he is. He isn't alone, there are dozens of teenagers, even adults who also have no memory. Thomas asks questions, but questioning will get him killed by the Keepers. “Massive stone walls, hundreds of feet high, moving like sliding glass doors.” (pg 28). Every night the walls move as if they where closing in all the teenagers. Thomas is standing there watching the walls move and sees someone running towards the Glades trying to make it before the walls close. Chuck tells Thomas that those are the Runners running back in from the Maze, it looked like they where running from something that is trying

Thomas is held prisoner in WICKED headquarters, but is then eventually released by Janson, who tells the Gladers and Group B that there’s a cure for the Flare. The Gladers were forced to retrieve their memories and remove the tracking devices from their heads. “I’m afraid we don’t have much of a choice, the time for lies are over. Nothing’s going to work with you three still in the dark. I’m sorry. We need to do this, [...]” (Dashner 46). Thomas, Minho, and Newt were the only ones who chose not to undergo the procedure because they didn’t trust WICKED. Without the devices, the WICKED headquarters wouldn’t be able to track where the Gladers are. All three of them escaped before having their tracking devices removed, with the help of the Right Arm.

The two most impressive things that Dashner achieves in THE MAZE RUNNER are suspense and the suspension of disbelief. The Glade is a truly creepy world, with half-animal half-machine killers roaming the Maze after night, new arbitrary “Variables” changing the stakes and odds of survival for the kids, and ever more crazy things thrown into the story that, at the hands of a less skilled author, would make readers incredulous. But what Dashner accomplishes is the total separation of the Glade from reality, so that when he does throw a whole bunch of random crazy scary things in, you won’t even blink an eye, except from terror.

As the bring him out one of the boys say "Welcome to the Glade" Chapter 2 • The boys keep touching Thomas, and dust of any dirt that’s left on him, some poked him strange • Thomas then gets good look at them • He noticed one gave a

The Moment was when everything started to change in the Glade. What started to change? It was the sun, the sun disappeared and the skies would stay gray all day even at nighttime, the 4 enormous walls don’t close anymore, and the one glader gets taken away each day by a griever.“With the skies being gray because it quickly became obvious that the walls hadn’t moved from the day before. Everything was exactly the same.”(The Maze Runner, pg 282), “ Griever took one of them just like last night? I think Gally was right they’re gonna just killing us”(The Maze Runner pg 286). This impacts Thomas as a person because life isn’t normal as it use to be also he is losing friends the represents symbols to him who help him go through his journey of self-discovery. Thomas getting stung by a Griever helps him get some of his memories back.”Thomas felt pain erupt over every inch of his body needly pricks that told him he’d succeeded… A Med-jack said something about him being stung dozens of times”(The Maze Runner, pg 295). This helps his journey of self-discovery because he can finally find out who he really was before he had his memories taken

When Thomas is thrust into a new world with only boys and no memory except his name there are many things he has to learn and overcome. For instance, his fear and confusion at what was happening to him. Then, his fear and confusion of his surroundings

He has no recollection of his past or what he is doing inside the elevator. He is thrown immediately into the Glade, where a group of boys live in shelter from dangerous monsters called, “Grievers.” None of the other boys inside the Glade remember anything and the viewers are still not given any information about the outside world and why the boys were sent into the maze. Therefore, the audience question what type of childhood Thomas had to be caught up in this situation.

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 start losing hope it all changes when something unprecedented happens and a girl along with a note arrive through the box. The book along with amazing imagery and relevance to today’s world manages to attract more than just teenagers but anybody that is up for the challenge of the maze, and that is just the purpose of this paper to demonstrate multiple reason of why this book not only deserves to be read but it should hold a place in the literary canon.