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    darkness all by yourself, or you arrive in a strange place full of strange boys and aligned with a maze? That is exactly what happened to Thomas in The Maze Runner. After a long ride in a freaky and dark elevator all by himself to a place called the Glade, Thomas found himself surrounded by people he does not know in a place he has never been to. When he got there he realized that he doesn’t know anything about himself or his family except that his first name is Thomas. One of the kids named…

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    successful-look at The Giver and Divergent-but The Maze Runner is a pleasant surprise. Thomas, played by Dylan O'Brien, wakes up in a metal box that goes to a fairly large area called the Glade. The Glade is surrounded by a large stone maze terrorized by strange creatures named Grievers. The other boys of the Glade have lived for three years in a peaceful society, trying to find a way out through the aforementioned maze. It's a simple enough premise to explain in a movie, one of the challenges…

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    Maze Runner

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    The film Maze Runner is a post-apocalyptic dystopian story about a group of teenagers who survived a man-made disease called the flare, and their lives in the glade which is surrounded by a maze full of deadly creatures named Grievers. The gladers have no previous memory except for their names, and their lives have been orderly until the arrival of Thomas and Theresa who are evidently different from the rest. Under Thomas’ leading, some of the gladers successfully escape the maze, only to find…

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    The Maze Runner Essay

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    Thomas, however, builds a growing curiosity for the maze while working as a slicer and believes he was brought to the Glade to be a runner. After Alby is stung by a Griever in the Maze and Minho, leader of the runners, is trying to carry him out before the walls close. Thomas sees this and squeezes between the narrow space of the closing walls to save them. Everyone believed…

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    book in a series of post-apocalyptic dystopian science fiction trilogy by James Dashner. The Maze Runner is about a boy who wakes up in a box with no memory of his past, except his name, Thomas. When the elevator doors opened, he is pulled into a glade by a group of teenage boys who also have…

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    is a book written by James Dashner. The book is about a boy name Thomas, who was put into a glade with boys. Later came a girl named Teresa. They later found out that Teresa and Thomas were apart the Keepers, which was what they call the people that put them in the glade. Thomas found a way to get out and asked everyone to come with him, some stayed and some when along with the plan. They got out of the glade and found that it was all-apart of the Keeper’s plan for the Gladers. They moved on to…

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    The Maze Runner Book Review The Maze Runner, written by James Dashner is a science fiction book about a group of boys who are sent into a small courtyard, called the Glade inside a huge maze. Thomas, the main character, is sent up into the glade with no memory of his past, and becomes a glader. After he is sent there things began to change. For years the gladers had worked to try to solve the maze, but the maze changed each night making it almost impossible to solve. In addition, there were…

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    However, someone had to be first, right? Someone had to have spent a whole month in the Glade, alone. That was ably. I mean, it cannot have been easy. However, when those other boys started coming up, one after the other, he saw the truth. In addition, he learned that the most important thing is that we all have…

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    Essay On The Maze Runner

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    that if a Griever sting you, you will have to get medicine and go through the changing. After you go through the Changing you get your memory back. Thomas meets the leader of the Glade, his name is Alby and he was the first person to be sent to the glade. He also meets Minho, leader of the runners (people who leave the glade and go into the maze to try and find a way out). Thomas also…

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    himself in the Glade, a large open area surrounded by walls. Other boys are also present, however they too do not recall any memory of themselves. In the Glade, every morning the walls open revealing a huge maze, but at night it closes. Normally every 30 days a new glader arrives (that’s what they called themselves), however not until Thomas’s arrival did everything change. Later that month a beautiful girl appeared and had rather disturbing news to share about how everything in the Glade is…

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