The Glade

driving and read a text message or checked a notification. Something that seems so "innocent" took the life of a sixteen year old girl. She was texting her friend and taking Snapchats when she lost control of her car and crashed on to a tree on Glades Road causing her to die instantly. Each day in the United States, around nine lives are lost from some sort of distracted driving. Imagine if in the middle of the night while you are asleep, you receive a phone call from the police…

helplessness through a stream of repetitiveness. Orwell makes the population appear not human and completely detached, living in the conformity and orthodoxy that “Big Brother” has established in society. Likewise, Dashner describes the dystopia of the Glade in a similar form, as the Gladers’ conform to living the same life every day, with both authors using fear as a large tool in order to suppress the consideration of rebellions. Moreover, both texts use conformity in order to manipulate the…

The Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen was able to survive the Hunger Games because of what she did with Peeta Mellark nearing the end of the games when both of them were the only ones left. Coming from the same district, Katniss remembers how when she was younger, Peeta saw her practically starving on the streets and he decided to give her some burnt bread that his mom told him to throw out. This allowed a bond to form between the two giving them trust with each other. During the games, it was…

in the Scorch and escaped on his Berg to Denver. When they made it there they had to get tested for the Flare before they could enter, so they had to leave Newt in the berg. Once they got in they received a letter from Gally who was also from the glade. He was part of a group called the Right Arm, a group fighting to take down WICKED. In order to do that, they needed help from all of the immune citizens and used Thomas as their secret…

and said what I wanted my future profession to be was a flight attendant. Their reaction was always the same. They would look at me and ask me where I got that from. I would then explain that the sky was open and beautiful and airplanes seem to glade through the sky. The airplane could take me a lot of places. As a child, I was always fascinated with the sky. When I was in high school I got my chance to apply to a major airline. My parents were in agreement with me contacting the…

The Maze Runner,by James Dashner, displays many universal themes in a dystopian society. In every dystopian story, there is a theme related to the outcome of the world.These themes reflect ideas about how the world could end up unless certain things change.The Maze Runner displays the universal themes of heroic scenario’s,moral lessons,social cohesion,and likable characters. The Maze Runner displays many Heroic scenarios.When Thomas saw that the door’s were about to close, he ran into the…

is normally all of us. The times that only a few go can be the best. One time with my dad I skipped school to skia big snow front that was coming in.We had hiked out to the north side of Castle Rock, which is a chair lift that has some of the best glades in Sugarbush and from all the fresh cut turns the…

with Tea Cake brim with tidbits of Floridian life in the 1930s, including the diversity among immigrants who went to work there. This is evident on page 154, when Hurston writes, “... Tea Cake and Janie had friended with the Bahamian workers in the ‘Glades… they…

In The Veldt the Hadley children are pampered by technology throughout their home. The Hadley family are very spoiled and have almost everything at their command. George and Lydia Hadley’s children have a nursery that changes its environment into anything they want at the action of their voice, and George and Lydia have robotic maids to do anything they want. But too much technology can turn a family crazy, which is what happened to the Hadleys. The children took advantage of the Nursery by…

As Troden was sharpening his blade, Jade and Joseph were getting ready for the day. Troden asked "do you guys want tom play Frisbee?", they both didn't seem interested. Jade brushed her long velvety hair, while staring at her reflection. Joseph combed his black bushy hair. Troden took some hair gel and put his hair in a neat style. Joseph strutted in the kitchen to the smell of crisp centipede. As Joseph was walking to the kitchen he heard a shriek coming for the living room. All three of them…