In James Dashner’s novel, the Maze Runner, the main character Thomas arrives in the Glade through The Box knowing nothing about his past life except for his name. After coming out of the box Thomas could see that the Glade was a large square surrounded by tall walls covered in ivy and in the center of each wall there was a door, which leads into the dreaded Maze. Although Thomas had just arrived and knew nothing about about his new home, it became obvious that he was meant to go out into the Maze. As the days go on upon Thomas’s arrival stranger things keep happening in the Glade. In the Maze Runner it expresses a quest for knowledge and survival which can be seen when the girl arrives the day after Thomas does, when Thomas became the first
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Thomas saw two Gladers struggling to make it to the Glade before the gates closed at sunset. Thomas made a risky choice of choosing to break the number one rule and go out into the Maze to assist them. As a result the gates closed on him and he was trapped inside the Maze and had to survive the night. Even though he was new to the Maze he made smart decisions that allowed for him to survive. One of the first things he did was “grabbed other vibes, ripped no them away from the wall, creating a series of climbing ropes” (Dashner 121). He hanged himself up 30 feet on the wall to avoid Grievers for the first half of the night. To survive the rest of the night he ran and tricked the Grievers by having them fall “from the Cliff, to see them plummeting to their death” (Dashner 140). After surviving the night and coming out of the Glade in the morning with only a few scratches allowed for Thomas to be the first survivor of the Maze at night.
After surviving the Maze, Thomas decides to visit the girl in the coma, however there he realizes he is the only one who can hear her talking. The first thing the girl said to him was his name, “Thomas” (Dashner 185). She continued on talking to him the last thing she said to him being “It was you and me, Tom. We did this to them. To us” (Dashner 186). Immediately he begins to freak out because Newt was in the room and could not hear a word she said. Thomas begins to question how she knew his name, what she meant by “we did this” and also how she was able to talk to him
Thomas saw two Gladers struggling to make it to the Glade before the gates closed at sunset. Thomas made a risky choice of choosing to break the number one rule and go out into the Maze to assist them. As a result the gates closed on him and he was trapped inside the Maze and had to survive the night. Even though he was new to the Maze he made smart decisions that allowed for him to survive. One of the first things he did was “grabbed other vibes, ripped no them away from the wall, creating a series of climbing ropes” (Dashner 121). He hanged himself up 30 feet on the wall to avoid Grievers for the first half of the night. To survive the rest of the night he ran and tricked the Grievers by having them fall “from the Cliff, to see them plummeting to their death” (Dashner 140). After surviving the night and coming out of the Glade in the morning with only a few scratches allowed for Thomas to be the first survivor of the Maze at night.
After surviving the Maze, Thomas decides to visit the girl in the coma, however there he realizes he is the only one who can hear her talking. The first thing the girl said to him was his name, “Thomas” (Dashner 185). She continued on talking to him the last thing she said to him being “It was you and me, Tom. We did this to them. To us” (Dashner 186). Immediately he begins to freak out because Newt was in the room and could not hear a word she said. Thomas begins to question how she knew his name, what she meant by “we did this” and also how she was able to talk to him