"Two years we've tried to solve this thing, no luck. Shuckin' walls move out there at night just as much as these here doors. Mappin' it out ain't easy, ain't easy nohow." (Dashner 28). In the post-apocalyptic fiction novel The Maze Runner by James Dashner, the author shows that a character can fight and change the parameters established by his society to a great extent. .
Thomas, the main protagonist of the story, arrives in the Glade with all his memories of previous live erased. The Glade is a small area with four walls separating them from the maze. He quickly adapts his surroundings and soon shows an outstanding performance that scores him a promotion to become a Runner—a job that search and maps the always-changing maze to find out a way to escape. As the story develops, they found out that the Glade was an experiment conducted by the WICKED, which stands for World in Catastrophe: Killzone Experiment Department. It was an organization formed by surviving government after a deceased wiped out most of the world’s population. Thomas continues to show the Gladers his bravery and boldness by doing things that haven’t been achieved in the past. The boys finally managed to …show more content…
“You’d be surprised at how quickly we pulled ourselves together and quit panicking. There were about thirty of us. Obviously, we had no clue what had happened, how we’d gotten there, what we are supposed to do. And we were terrified, disoriented. But since we were all in the same crappy situation, we organized ourselves and figured out the place. Had the full farm running in days, everybody with their own job” (Dashner 64). They divided into different jobs, Runners are those who explore the Maze, Slicers are those who prepare the meat, Cooks are those who prepare the meals, Track-hoes are those who farm, Builders are those who are in charge of construction, and Med-jacks are those who take care of the sick or
Thomas, the main protagonist of the story, arrives in the Glade with all his memories of previous live erased. The Glade is a small area with four walls separating them from the maze. He quickly adapts his surroundings and soon shows an outstanding performance that scores him a promotion to become a Runner—a job that search and maps the always-changing maze to find out a way to escape. As the story develops, they found out that the Glade was an experiment conducted by the WICKED, which stands for World in Catastrophe: Killzone Experiment Department. It was an organization formed by surviving government after a deceased wiped out most of the world’s population. Thomas continues to show the Gladers his bravery and boldness by doing things that haven’t been achieved in the past. The boys finally managed to …show more content…
“You’d be surprised at how quickly we pulled ourselves together and quit panicking. There were about thirty of us. Obviously, we had no clue what had happened, how we’d gotten there, what we are supposed to do. And we were terrified, disoriented. But since we were all in the same crappy situation, we organized ourselves and figured out the place. Had the full farm running in days, everybody with their own job” (Dashner 64). They divided into different jobs, Runners are those who explore the Maze, Slicers are those who prepare the meat, Cooks are those who prepare the meals, Track-hoes are those who farm, Builders are those who are in charge of construction, and Med-jacks are those who take care of the sick or