The Maze Runner

He explains that every month, a new person comes from the box and every week supplies come through the box. The Glade is divided into 4 sections. The sections are Gardens (where food is grown), Blood House (where the livestock lives and where they are slaughtered for food), Deadheads (A graveyard in the woods), and Homestead (where they live/sleep). Alby says he has been there for two years, and nobody has ever solved the maze, but many have died trying. The maze is very hard to solve because every night the walls in the maze change. Nobody has ever survived a night in the maze after the doors shut because the Greivers are nocturnal and come out at night. He also says that beetleblades, robotic creatures, are how “the creators” watch the people inside of The Glade. A siren goes off, which means that another new person is entering the glade. Everyone is very confused because they are supposed to get a new person every month, and it has only been two days. When the box opens there is an unconscious girl in it. After they get her out of the box, she wakes up for a second only saying that everything is going to change, then passes out again. The boys find a note in her hand saying that everything is going to change. Since she is unconscious, the doctors take her in. Still obsessed with becoming a runner, Thomas finds out that they run around the maze all day trying to solve it, and when they return they go into the

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

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

In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the readers start off following Amir in 1970s Afghanistan. Amir is a rich child who lives with his father and their servants. Their servants are Ali and his son Hassan. Hassan and Amir are best friends. One day, the two boys run into the town bully Assef. Assef threatens them because Hassan is a Hazara which is basically a second class citizen. Hassan then threatens Assef with a slingshot pointed at his eye and he escapes with Amir. Amir has a inadequate relationship with his father, Baba. Baba and Amir do not share the same interests. For instance, Amir writes a story and tries to show it to his father. Instead of reading the story, Baba’s friend Rahim Khan reads it and praises Aamir

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The Maze Runner by James Dashner is a young adult/ science fiction book which takes place in a maze known as the Glade. Some of the most important characters include Minho and Thomas. Minho is one of the most interesting characters in the book. He was the leader of the boys, called Gladers, and one of the wisest characters in my opinion. Thomas is the main character of the story. Despite his memory loss, he helps guide the Gladers out of the maze they have been placed in. His strong efforts to save the Gladers and do what’s right has earned him the respect and trust to become a leader.

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In the section “The School”, Thomas is forced to go to school but dislikes it so much that he tries to run away and go back to his lodge in the mountains. Once he gets back, he finds that his lodge has been burned to the ground and that there is nothing left. Thomas willingly goes back to the school and starts to go by Thomas Black Bull. “His name is Thomas Black Bull. He was baptized with that name” (Page 52).

While there are some obstacles like facing WICKED and Teresa betraying Thomas. The weather out there is extremely dangerous. Thomas and the glazers have to cooperate to make it out of the wasteland. In this book we are mainly in Thomas’s brain.

Waking up not knowing anything or anyone is one of the scariest thoughts a human brain can conjure up, but what if this turned out to be a reality for you? How terrified would someone feel? Then you find out you were taken by a mysterious force along with about fifty to sixty other people. Well this turned out to be a reality for Thomas in the book The Maze Runner, by James Dashner. In this book, Thomas faces the challenges of trying to fit in with the other boys, faces the challenge of trying to follow the rules, and faces the urge to become a maze runner. All of these reasons show how Thomas is an outcast archetype.

However, even though he is a newbie, Thomas pursues answers about the glade and queries more than the other gladers ever did know about their surrounding. At first, anyone would somewhat pity Thomas because he felt lonely, sad and desperate. The other boys were harsh towards him and the new environment, language and the laws he was not aware of were almost disorienting. Yet, as time passes by, Thomas ponders on more question, although the boys have already told him how the glade runs. For Thomas, too much information is never enough. There is one point in the story where he feels connected with the maze, so never being satisfied with answers he asks, “Oh, you say that to stay out in the Maze overnight is a certain death sentence? Lemme give that a try."(100) During this scene he yet again attempts to be independent yet also

Newt explains that they've been trying to figure out the maze but hasn’t been successful • Newt shows him a Griever half animal half technology, it program to kill the people of the Glade • He tells Thomas that they only come out at night • Even though Thomas is frightened he still has confidence in becoming a Runner • Alby come to give Thomas the tour of the Glade after his breakfast Chapter 7 • The Box(elevator) brings supplies once a week and they are no sure what else it does or how it

In The Scorch Trials by James Dashner, Thomas, a variable, learns wicked has more plans. Thomas, Newt, Minho, Teresa and the other Gladers have just escaped from the Maze. After, the Maze Thomas, his friends and The Gladers a are taken to a building then, get informed about the Flare. The Flare is a brain-eating disease for short, people call those infected with the Flare, Cranks. Thomas also, wonders about why they were in the Maze for, his memories tell him the Maze was a test. A test to see how the Gladers and Thomas would, react in different situation.

The Maze Runner One day, Thomas wakes up in a maze and struggles to remember his past. After he spends an hour in the maze he only remembers his name. However, once a Gladers would get stung by a Griever, they *“remember things from growing up, where they lived, that sort of stuff”* (197). But, after they recovered from getting stung, they would get thrown out in the maze and have to fend for themselves because they were considered to be dangerous. The theme of the book The Maze Runner by James Dashner, is that you cannot achieve your goal without the help of other people.