“Before you can be a champion, you have to be a contender.” A contender is someone who struggles to overcome obstacles in his/ her way to achieve a goal. In order to be a contender, you have to be willing to work hard, like Thomas from The Maze Runner. Thomas is a contender as well as a Hemingway hero. Some traits he obtains is “ a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do,” endurance, and, even though it is not a Hemingway hero trait, he is brave.
In the maze, Thomas and a couple of other people were “runners” meaning that they had to try to find a way out of the maze. When they first wanted him to be a runner, he really did not want to do it. However, everyone had one goal: to find a way out. Therefore, Thomas did what he had to do and decided to accept the job. He did that because he then realized that he had to put others in front of himself, he could save the others.
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He physically had to be able to keep running and searching for an exit. However, to be able to keep a steady run, he would have had to have mental endurance, as well. He could have turned back anytime he got lost or was in danger, but he kept going even when big robot spiders(grievers) were trying to kill him. Being able to do that takes a lot of bravery, which is another trait that Thomas fulfills.
Being a runner also takes a lot of bravery. First off, when you’re in the maze, most of the time the people separate from each other. When Thomas was in the maze, being alone means having only one mind to figure out which way to go or how to solve a problem. Since he was the only one there, he had to think and act fast to make life changing decisions that can lead to life or death situations. On top of all that, runners need to keep track of time because, if not, the maze doors will squish everything inside. As for the people inside, well, they will get squished as
When I was reading the Maze Runner I made some connections. When Thomas went out into the maze, why would he do
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An example of Thomas being brave is going into the maze at night. Also, If Thomas were to live he would be the first to live through it in the history of the maze. His braveness is shown when the book said “Thomas knew he had no choice. He moved forward and stepped into the maze” (Dashner, 112). When Thomas went to the maze and he had no clue what he was about to do or about to witness that show’s true bravery.
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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.
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