The Maze Runner

would take forever to find the exit to a maze the size of New York City, but he still had hope. Thomas was a boy that had just woken up, with no memory, and no idea where he was. There were unknown boys surrounding him when he first opened his eyes. He soon realized that everyone had gone through the same process; waking up with no memory in a place you have never been to. The area where he was, looked like an old mill town, except it was surrounded by a maze that stretched farther than the…

Maze Runner narrative- Brennan Byrne We just escaped the maze and still very confused on what is happening with me and my friends."its almost like we are being tested" Minho said. The maze was a very complex place, it changed everyday and we had to figure out its patterns. Me and Minho are the runners, which means we run through the maze all day looking for a way out and map out where we went for that day the others are called the Gladers . They farm, make the food, and protect each other, now…

Drew Chapman writes both for television shows and novels, and produces television shows. He also directed and wrote a movie called "Standoff" that came out in the late 1990s, and starred Robert Sean Leonard and Dennis Haysbert. He is the author of a series of novels featuring Garrett Reilly. Drew Chapman wrote his very first novel when he was in the fourth grade, and to this day, it is unpublished. He has also written for and executive produced "Legends", a show that aired on TNT, and an eight…

friends are stuck in a huge maze built with tall concrete walls, covered in ivy. To make this situation more interesting, this maze is filled with huge monsters, called the grievers. You don’t have any memory of what happened two days ago. If you had the choice to save your friends, what would you do? This was the situation of Thomas, the lead character in the Maze Runner, by James Dashner. Thomas is sent to a hidden place called the Glade. This place has a huge maze filled with the grievers. He…

Personally, I love the “Maze Runner” saga, I love reading the books and of course, watching the movies. Watching in scene to the super handsome Dylan O’Brien, if you like boys you will understand me. Today I´m gonna talk about the second film of this marvelous saga. Scorch Trials, is the second book of the saga. Spoiler Alert! Now that Thomas and his maze mates are free, they think they're protected from W.C.K.D. but, thanks to Thomas´s paranoia all of them discover that they have been…

little brother will too. “Just, please, let him be okay.” It was just an ordinary day for my family. My dad left at 10:00am for work and my mom had the day off. I was doing what I usually do on hot summer days, watching Netflix. I could watch the Maze Runner a million times. At about noon, I walk out of my room and ask, “Mom, what’s for lunch?” “We’re having…

The Maze Runner, another adaptation of a popular novel for teens, seems to lack in originality and creativity. The movie begins with a 16-year old character named Thomas arriving in an underground elevator with no past memory. As the movie unfolds, Thomas occasionally experiences flashbacks of his “past self” which adds on to the story plot of the movie. The Maze Runner’s attempt at creating a top-selling young-adult book into a movie is loosely translated due to the weak plot line, lack of…

chaos created by the beast on island. The disorder leads to the death of two boys, Simon and Piggy. Likewise, in the movie The Maze Runner, directed by Wes Ball, several boys are trapped in a small area called the Glades by the organization WCKD, World Catastrophe Killzone Department. The boys also fight to maintain peace with one another because of the fear that the maze and the Grievers creates within them. The idea of a microcosm is symbolically represented in both the novel and the movie. A…

Anthem vs The Maze Runner Why do teens like dystopian literature or films? Because it comes from the teens perspective on how it should be. Dystopian story or movies such as Anthem and The Maze Runner. These two stories are common but are also different in many ways. In Anthem by Ayn Rand there is a dystopian theme as well as in the film The Maze Runner by Wes Ball.. Anthem by Ayn Rand Equality says in chapter 11, (I guard my treasures my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these…

Everyone is reading dystopian books lately. There are hundreds and all are so different, yet can have very similar characteristics. Like the books Maze Runner and Ender’s Game, they both have very different plots, but very similar dystopian qualities. In the novel The Maze Runner, by James Dashner, kids are sent to a maze called the glade and forced to run and face deadly monsters in order to escape. The novel Ender’s game, by Orson Scott Card, the government picks out the smartest kids in the…