Character Analysis: The Death Cure

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Dashner, James. The Death Cure: Delacorte Press, October 11, 2011

Okay, so in The Death Cure, there are people walking around the streets with a brain-eating disease that's slowly destroying mankind. This brain-eating disease causes them to actually start going insane, after which they become unable to control their own actions and thoughts. Plus, there are government agencies and underground societies trying to "cure" this disease or "maintain" it, but all they're really doing is killing a bunch of innocent kids. WICKED, the organization charged with finding a cure to the disease called "The Flare", needs one last thing to complete their research - Thomas. Thomas is an escapee from WICKED who is determined to find out the truth about what
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He is the 'best candidate' for W.I.C.K.E.D's blueprints. He is the one to lead the immunes to the safe haven. Teresa- Teresa was the 'Last One' to come up the box in the maze. She has played a very important role in W.I.C.K.E.D's trials, which causes her to become untrustworthy in some people's eyes. Minho- A former runner when he was in the maze, now Thomas's best friend. Newt- The former leader of the gladers in the maze. He was also Thomas's friend until he discovered he was not immune to the flare and was taken away to a 'Crank Palace'. Brenda- One of W.I.C.K.E.D's staff pretending to be a crank. She goes along with Thomas for most of his journey, and actually turns out to be against W.I.C.K.E.D. Jorge- Also one of W.I.C.K.E.D's staff pretending to be a crank. He is a pilot and helps Thomas escape on a berg to Denver. If everything they'd been insisting was in fact true, he didn't want to face his past even if he could. (5.26): Again, Thomas's past is filled with instances of him working for WICKED, so to face the past for him sounds worse than not remembering anything about his life. He doesn't want to know either the horrible things that happened to him or the horrible things he might have done. Yes, I would recommend this book

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