The Maze Runner is set in the future, a group of teenage boys mysteriously show up into a giant stone maze, with their memory wiped, they have to escape.
At the beginning Thomas shows up in the maze with no memory of where he is or who he is. Strange things start to happen after he shows up, some of the boys who have regained some of their memory seem to remember him and not in a good way. Then Teressa shows up, the only girl in the maze, that’s when people start to accuse Thomas of all the weird things that have come.
Thomas later discovers that the maze is a test given from the creators and the maze isn’t supposed to be solved but instead so the boys had hope to escape.
In the end not all of the boys hadn’t trusted Thomas or Teressa and stayed in the maze, only 10 of them made it out including Teressa and Thomas. When they escaped, they were surrounded by dessert when a helicopter landed and rescued them.
When all the boys were young a disease occurred, killing most of the population. All of the boys were kidnapped from their families. The scientist had found out that the kids were very intelligent and took them to put them through trials to test their brain activity. The scientist found out that some of them were immune to the flare, so they started working to find a cure in the kids. They all grew up learning and being tested on until their biggest trial yet, the maze.
The first month they sent a group of boys to start off, then sent one kid up per month for three years until Thomas arrived.
Important details of The Maze Runner.
- In the center of the maze there was a safe area where the boys lived; they called it the Glade and called themselves Gladers.
- The maze contained these animal/robotic creatures they called “grievers” because of the screeching noise they made at night.
- Everyone in the Glade had a job to keep order, if you explored the maze you would be a runner; runners have the most important job.
- If you had gotten stung by a griever you either could regain some of your memory or die.
Five reasons you should read this book.
- There is a lot of suspense and mystery. It keeps you engaged, almost like you are sucked into the book.
- The book talks about themes such as friendship, peer pressure, and problem solving.
- The lack of knowledge we have makes it more exciting and suspenseful.
- The movie does not disappoint!
- The book has a lot of action.
The Maze Runner is a 2009 young adult dystopian science fiction novel written by American author James Dashner.
If you like this book, some other books to consider reading are:
- The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau.
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
- Divergent by Veronica Roth.
- Uglies by Scott Westerfield.
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.
- The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey.
- Nemesis by Brendan Reichs.
