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The Maze Runner, by James Dashner, is the first book in a young-adult post-apocalyptic dystopian science fiction trilogy of the same name. The book starts with Thomas (the main character) waking up in an elevator. He has no memory of his life before entering the elevator, or “The Box”. Once the elevator doors open, Thomas is greeted by a group of teenage boys. He finds himself in the middle of a glade, which itself is sitting in the middle of a large Maze. Thomas is a 16 year old who was taken away from his parents by the World In Catastrophe: Killzone Experiment Department (WICKED). It is an organization dedicated to finding a cure for The Flare, a disease that eats away at the brain, eventually turning the victim into a blood-thirsty and …show more content…

The girl wakes up, announcing that she has triggered “The Ending.” The sky turns gray and the doors stay open, leaving the Gladers to the mercy of the Grievers. After enduring a couple of days of the Griever attacks, the runner’s discover that the Maze spells a code. Thomas was stung during the attacks, which force him to go through “The Changing,” an event that causes horrible pain and horrific mutations, but allows the Gladers to regain part of their memories. During the Changing, Thomas learns about how to escape from the Maze. He tells the other Gladers that the only way to escape the Maze is through the Griever Hole, the hole that mysteriously allows the Grievers to enter and exit the Maze. Once most of them decide to follow through on the plan of escaping, and prepare to fight the Grievers, they head into the maze. They fight the Grievers at the cliff, allowing Thomas, Teresa and Chuck to input the escape code. Half of them die fighting, but the other twenty manage to escape through the door leading out of the maze. At this point, the remaining Gladers escape into a large chamber and meet the Creators, the people who put them in the Maze. They tell the group that they have passed the Maze trials, but there is one remaining variable

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