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The Scorch Trials: A Setting Of The Scorch

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The main setting in The Scorch Trials is the scorch. The scorch is basically a desert where there use to be a city and now it is covered by sand and it is extremely hot during the day. This happened after the Flare.There are multiple characters in The Scorch Trails, like Thomas, Newt Minho, Teresa, Aris, Jorge, Brenda, Sonya, Harriet, Rachel, and Janson. The protagonist in The Scorch Trails are Thomas, and Minho because they are trying to complete the trails of W.I.C.K.E.D, so they can be free because they are tired of being their test subjects. The antagonists are W.I.C.K.E.D and a group of girls. WICKED who is a scientist who is trying find a cure to stop the flare. The flare is a disease that turns people into zombie type. And W.I.C.K.E.D …show more content…

It is where it takes place. Like I said before WICKED put two groups in the Scorch to see them compete and see who has a better chance to survive in the Scorch with the Flare, this is a trial by WICKED. The flare has stages to it, it slowly turns people crazy. The first group called group B whose mission was to kill Thomas to receive the cure for the flare, and when they did that they would have to go the Safe Haven to receive it. Group B was only young women. Group A who is only men has to go through the Scorch and go the Safe Haven to receive the cure. The people in Group A are Thomas, Minho, Newt, Aris, and the gladers. The people in group B are Teresa, Sonya, Harriet Rachel, and the women …show more content…

The reason why I believe the theme is trust is that Thomas had to trust in people through the challenges he faced. For example when he was told Jorge about the cure for the flare. Jorge could've killed him and his friend. But Thomas trusted in Jorge and Jorge trusted in Thomas. If they did not trust in each other, the gladers would not probability make to the Safe Heaven. That is the reason why I think trust is the theme in the Scorch Trails. Another example is when the book says “Thomas had never heard such arrogance from her. She was either a really good actress or had started going crazy. Gained a split personality or two”(DASHER). Thomas could've defended himself and attacked Teresa and killed her but he did not because he trusted in her. The conflict in the book is that Thomas is tried of WICKED games or their stupid trials. He wants to be free from WICKED and wants innocent people dying because of WICKED. The external conflict is that Thomas wants WICKED to stop them of people suffering because they make people suffer a lot. Like I said before WICKED usually kills innocent people which Thomas hates. Not just Thomas thinks that WICKED is evil but his Friends like Minho, Brenda, Newt, and others. Thomas wants to stop WICKED from putting people into their

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