The Scorch Trials Sparknotes

This change was introduced in the first film. Thomas and Teresa are supposed to be able to communicate telepathically. However, when the filmmakers began outlining the first movie, they decided that they weren’t going to include this story line in the movies. In The Scorch Trials, this connection between Teresa and Thomas is pretty important, but it’s completely absent in the movie. The gladers’ rescuers are never hanged. After waking up to a bunch of cranks, Thomas and the rest of the gladers find their rescuers from the first book dead. Their dead bodies are hanging from the ceiling. In the movie, this entire plot is omitted. Instead, the rescuers are quickly revealed to be part of WCKD. Aris and Rachel, Like Thomas and Teresa, Aris and Rachel are supposed to have a special telepathic bond. …show more content…
In the movie, Rachel makes a very brief appearance. Aris recognizes her hanging body. She’s one of the people that WCKD is trying to harvest a cure from. Janson-a.k.a Rat Man- is a prominent character in the movie. In the book, Rat Man (his real name isn’t yet revealed) is only at the beginning of the story and is there to charge the gladers with their next task: survive the Scorch. In the movie, Rat Man becomes one of the main two antagonists and spends his time chasing the gladers through the Scorch. The Scorch is supposed to be the next trial. This was without doubt one of the most drastic changes to the story. In the book, Rat Man explains to them that they must travel through the Scorch as part of their next trial. However in the movie Thomas and the others escape WCKD and enter the Scorch seeking refuge. (It kind of makes you wonder why they kept the title ‘The Scorch Trials’ if these weren’t actually