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    Chaos In The Maze Runner

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    the Glade get very chaotic once Thomas arrives. Soon after he arrives Thomas is almost killed and then he brakes one of the Glades most important rules: Do not go into the Maze unless you are a runner. “...but Newt, you’re the one always harping about order. If we don’t punish him, we’ll set a bad example. He broke our Number One Rule.” (Dashner 155) After Thomas ran into the maze to help Alby and Minho the Glade became bewildered and distracted. The council hopes to return order to the Glade by…

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    their names. Until one day, a boy named Thomas came in the Glade through the elevator and changes everyone’s life. Analysis: The danger and action starts in the endless and mysterious Maze. There are people called the Maze Runners who go inside the Maze everyday to find a new way out of the Maze. Everyone else is never allowed to go in there. Ever. Well, of course, only…

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    rules and keeping all of the boys busy harvesting food and doing chores. The chores are important because outside the Glade is the maze. Home to the Gladers, incorporating four main areas: The Gardens, The Blood House ( Where the Gladers keep their animal stock), the homestead (including a map room), and the deadheads (an area of woodland in which dead Gladers are buried). The Glade, square in shape is, is surrounded on all four sides is a terrifying…

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    strange place called the glade. There are about 50 other boys who've come to the glade who are also known as the gladers. He then meets the leader of the gladers, a boy named Alby and another boy named Newt. Then there's Chuck, the last one to come to the glade who becomes good friends with Thomas. As time goes by, Newt explains why the glade was there and what its purpose was. The Glade is in the shape of a perfect square forming a box around the gladers, and outside the glade is the maze.…

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    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…

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    unique twist: Thomas, the main character, wakes up in a box, unable to remember anything. He is greeted by teen boys, the Gladers, who had also experienced the same thing. For years, the boys have tried to escape this entrapped oasis, the Glade, but were unsuccessful. Many challenges have been thrown at them,…

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    The book that I read for my distopan lighture is The Maze Runner Written by James Dashner. The story of the book is that Thomas is sent to live in a maze called Glade that changes everyday with other boys his age . They try to find a way out of the maze, but if they stay to long out in the maze, then the walls will close and the grevers will come out. The the grevers are a very dangerist moster that only comes out a night, ways one ton, hase spikes, and has a stinger that can sting the boys, and…

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    with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” – C.S. Lewis In The Maze Runner, by James Dashner, teenage boys appear in an area called the Glade with no memories of their past. Their only way to escape the Glade is through a dangerous maze, which resets itself every night. There are several religious and theistic elements within this novel. The one religion that I noticed so far in this novel is Christianity, as the…

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    they have to evenly distribute it among themselves. The only way out of the maze is to find the other end. But, the maze closes during sundown, and if you don’t make it out, you would have to wait till morning to get back in the safezone, called the glade. Also you would have to face the maze monsters, known as Grievers. There’s a problem though; every night the maze shifts into a new pattern, so memory has no strength. Because supplies are limited, it’s not surprising that sometimes they run…

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    Thomas In The Maze Runner

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    task of navigating the maze, Thomas manages to show extreme leadership and analytic skills which results in escaping the Glade. Throughout the book, Thomas progresses from a shallow, single-minded boy to a confident and respectable man. In the beginning Thomas is very simple and comes off as whiny because he is so persistent with his questions. He pursues his answers about the Glade…

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