The Scorch Trials: A Brief Summary

In the book “The Scorch Trials” by James Dashner is the second book the Maze Runner series. This book takes place in the future, the world is a desert and the narrator is a sixteen-year-old boy name, Thomas. Thomas is not so specific about his location. He tells his story in the third person. Thomas and his friends he called The Gladers have this sickness called the flare. They all have two weeks to travel 1000 miles North. The book starts with action when Thomas’ good friend Teresa gets taken and replaced by a boy named Aris. Aris is from Group B later we know that they are from the same maze that Thomas and his friends were inside. she was taken by these bad and good people called WICKED to a different place where Group B is located. Group …show more content…
In the middle of the book, The Gladers think that they made it halfway to the “Safe Haven” The Gladers have to get there before the two weeks is up. If they don’t make it in two weeks they will go crazy. On the way, Thomas and The Gladers have to defeat crakes who are people who have gone crazy from the flare. Near the end of the book, Teresa and Group B arrive over a mountain and take Thomas to their “Base” on the other part of the mountain. The girls tie him to a tree and Thomas asks the girls why they took him and they tell him that Teresa wants him dead. So Thomas convinces the girls to untie him because he is very special to the experiment that WICKED is doing. So when Teresa gets back the girls talk and they come to the conclusion not to kill him. Teresa gets mad and runs and Thomas and Group B keep walking North, on the way Thomas is walking, he sees a pack of dead trees and when he passes by Teresa pulls him aside into the trees. When he gets into the patch of trees he sees Aris, Aris, and Teresa guide Thomas into a cave where he sees a green light. Teresa and Aris kiss and Thomas doesn’t like Teresa anymore. Teresa opens the green light and it is a door. Aris and her drag Thomas into a room,