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
The Betrayer." An alarm, similar to the one on the Glade, goes off, and the room door locks until the alarm stops. Thomas opens the door to find no dead bodies. Even the plaque is changed to "Aris Jones, Group B, Subject B1. The Partner."
The Grievers have taken a lot of lives from The Glade they could have killed all of The Gladers but they only took one at a time every night because of variables or something. Grievers have also stung Gladers over the past two years and unless the Gladers get the serum in time they will die and if they do get the serum they will have some kind of vision that can't be explained. The Leader was stung by a griever and had to take the serum and couldn't be leader while sick. A Glader who had never took control before was named the acting leader and The Glade was able to keep everything going great even with everything crazy going on. “In place of our leader, sick in bed, I declare this gathering begun.
Nothing, which happens to any character, does so without a reason. Actions have consequences in this book, and apparently, good people strive almost to the end (Lerner 23).Gally, for instance, takes the rivalry with Thomas to a different level, and kills Chuck in the process. Consequently, Thomas beats him almost to death and it is a proof that simple and unwanted enmity will serve a person no good.Also, it is from this book that readers learn about the struggle for survival and persistence in suffering. In the later stages of the story, Thomas, Chuck and Teresa are the only survivors from the maze with all other boys killed. The rewards are equally remarkable since it has been a test to determine the most intelligent boys capable of saving humanity by defeating the Flare.
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.
Then, inexplicably, Chuck was there, diving in front of him. Thomas felt as if his feet had been frozen in blocks of ice; he could only stare at the scene of horror unfolding before him, completely helpless.” Think: Many characters in The Maze Runner risked their lives to protect those around them in deeds of self-sacrifice. As Thomas and Teresa look for the Griever’s Hole, most of the Gladers are willing to risk their lives in order to protect them. While half of them get stung and die, it allows the rest of them time to escape.
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
Thomas doesn’t know he is immune to the flare disease and isn’t harmed by it. He is then able to meet up with his friends from the Maze. Thomas and his friends break out of wicked and travel to Denver to try to find a cure for the Flare but the wicked attempt to capture them once again. They join a group of people called the right arm who fight against the Wicked. I will be visualizing the characters
to the older members of the Glade, usually involving going into the maze or other
Ending (p.220) - This is important because when Teresa triggers the Ending bad things happen to the Gladers making them have to get out.
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
It seems like I was right about the plot thickening quickly. Already Thomas has made an enemy, a boy
Minho, Newt, thomas and half of the Gladers go into the maze to escape the Glade. Teresa, Thomas, and Chuck jump into the griever hole. Chuck dies saving Thomas. The Resolution is how WICKED are the ones who made the maze and who put the Gladers in the maze. Then as Thomas and all the other gladers try to escape people come to save
In this case, the battle between good and evil happens between the stranded children and the maze, they are trapped in. As a protagonist Thomas is the key to finally escape the labyrinth, which changes every day. Soon Teresa, the first girl, arrives and tells them the game is on. Dashner has written Thomas as a strong role model who does not fall easily into peer pressure and does not give up his own sense of what is
No one has ever survived a night in the maze until Thomas and another runner Minho arrived. While they are stuck in the maze Thomas kills a griever and pulls out
When Thomas was put into the glade all he wanted to know was what was going on. All the simple questions he had were not answered. The rules of the glade were pretty simple, follow the rules and your time at the glade will be easy. Thomas’s thirst for answers was unquenchable, so he had to take matters into his own hands and figure out everything on his own. Thomas started as a whining greeny and grows to help everyone find a way out. Thomas went against all odds and most people of the glade just because of his curiosity for where he was and the answers he wanted.