The Maze Runner: The Romance Narrative Circle

The book starts off with Thomas in a white room all alone. He completed the Scorch Trials, but WICKED thinks he has the Flare (a man-made disease that basically turns people into zombies). Eventually, he is escorted to a room full of his Glader friends by a guy called Rat Man. When they get into the room, Rat Man tells everyone that they'd be given their memories back. But Thomas, Minho, and Newt really don't buy into it. Also, in this scene Newt finds out he actually has the Flare, so that sucks. The group rebels against having the memory surgery, so they all get put into separate rooms. In Thomas's operating room, we find Brenda, who helped him get to safety during the Scorch Trials. Turns out she works for WICKED, but she hates it. She ends up helping Thomas escape the memory surgery.

Thomas is the narrator and protagonist of the story. He arrives in the maze with no knowledge of who he is or was. He only remembers his name and nothing else about his life. Thomas proves to be brave and clever even though he only has a very limited memory of previous knowledge of the Maze. Since arriving in the maze, Thomas makes both friends and enemies and proves to be a leader among the other boys with him in the maze.

The title The Death Cure, seems almost oxymoronic, falsely true. From the first book, The Maze Runner, it seems like WICKED is desperately searching for a cure that could possibly prevent the extinction of the human race from the Flare. Mainly, The Death Cure is focusing on the cure to the disease. But as we read on, it seems like there was never a cure, but death. The cure looks like it could be letting everyone who has been infected, die while the immunes get to start over. WICKED should have been searching for a way to stop the spread of the disease instead of finding a cure for death, which has been their main problem.

This topic is the most highlighted one throughout the story. All of the children were deprived from everything they had; the world they lived in, the people they knew, and the memories of all of those things. To clarify, the main character Thomas states that “his memory loss was baffling in its complexity” (Dashner 44). Each boy in the Glade was full of knowledge, but no origin of it. Conversely, society today has not experienced much loss in self identity, but the idea of it is one of the most chilling concepts to ponder. By means of social commentary, Dashner demonstrates this exact concept of one’s loss of self

In the beginning, the main character, Thomas, has his memory wiped so he doesn’t know anything. Over time though, he begins to accept where he is (the Glade) and that the people in the Glade have nothing but each other. Thomas also adapts to the Glade’s slang, and talks like a Glader. He also saves the lives of some Gladers who are his friends, such as Alby. At the end Thomas became a sort of leader, trying to make the best decisions when the rest of the Gladers didn’t know what to do. Thomas talks to the other Gladers like someone would talk to their friends or family, and Thomas does his best to help protect the Gladers. Thomas is hard and cold to the people from WICKED, as at the end one of their workers kills Chuck, one of Thomas’s

Being scared: As you are sent away while you 're young to a mysterious place with no memories of the past. Most things in life cost something, sadly, and in the Gladers case, sometimes the cost they are making is someone 's life. Throughout the story there are examples of people risking their life in order to benefit everyone and the best that can come. Sometimes there are selfish motivations, and sometimes there isn’t, but it 's pretty bad when an innocent person has to die. In the book ”The Maze Runner” by James Dashner, the definition of being scared applies to Thomas as he is being sent away from his family and life to a place called the Glade, through an underground elevator, without any memories of the past. In the book “The Maze

The crossing of the threshold was initiated because of injured Newt, who was like a brother to him. In Jennifer Johnson's review of Safari in Legoland by Carol Matas, she shows a similar event where a child has to rescue a Prince, thus making him cross his threshold. "Answering a call for help, the eight-year-old set off to rescue Prince Aryeh. Shrunk to Lego size by a magic formula, Aaron proceeded into the exhibits." (Johnson). The child plans on rescuing a character who is in trouble just like how Thomas is trying to save his friend Newt. He willingly and was forced by a condition for him to go on the very first step of the heroes journey. As

When Thomas was put into the glade all he wanted to know was what was going on. All the simple questions he had were not answered. The rules of the glade were pretty simple, follow the rules and your time at the glade will be easy. Thomas’s thirst for answers was unquenchable, so he had to take matters into his own hands and figure out everything on his own. Thomas started as a whining greeny and grows to help everyone find a way out. Thomas went against all odds and most people of the glade just because of his curiosity for where he was and the answers he wanted.

All the Gladers, Thomas, and his friends go to bed after a large feast. Except, when he wakes up Teresa is gone while, a boy named Aris sits in her room. Aris explains how Thomas’ group

Alby is a dynamic character in the story the Maze Runner. The drastic changes that Alby went through after the Changing are clearly apparent. He is the dynamic character because in the beginning of the story he is nice and also strict and is a leader that manages the Glade. After getting stung by the griever and going through the Changing he becomes very different. He doesn’t want to be the leader and he becomes depressed, crazy and acts differently. It seems like he becomes a whole new person.

Universal Storytelling Elements are used in most dystopian novels or movies. A dystopian story describes an imaginary society that is dehumanizing and unpleasant as could be. One dystopian story that uses these Universal Storytelling Elements is The Maze Runner. The Maze Runner is about a group of people that wake up trapped in this society called the gland. These people do not know that this is not their home but the main character, Thomas, knows he needs to get out of there. The only way to do that is to get through the maze. The maze is hard to get through because it changes every night and there are grievers that will try to kill you. These grievers are beast-like creatures. Heroic Scenario, Moral Lesson, Social Cohesion and Likable Characters

The novel, The Maze Runner by James Dashner has become popular science fiction for young people since the publication in October 6, 2009. It's world is fighting and potentially isolating yet upon entering the maze, the quality of friendship always changes for the better. Chuck unreciprocated feeling towards Thomas at last rewarded when Thomas finally sees the loyalty in Chuck.Newt feeling towards Thomas were negative but at last Newt accept Thomas as a friend. Initially underestimating Thomas capability, Minho later on becomes Thomas friends.

Eliza Haywood is a female author who wrote in the eighteenth century. She is best known for her novella called Fantomina: Or, Love in a Maze in 1724. In the Enlightenment era,

The ending of all stories are about what the characters gain, whether it’s just a lesson, resurrection, or a winning. In The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, and Theseus and the Minotaur, the protagonists struggled to reach salvation and glory. Katniss and Peeta became “Victors” of the 74th Hunger games and as a token of respect for their participation, they got “income from Capitol, special status in their districts, victor’s village” (The Hunger Games Wikia). Their bravery and heroism in the games granted them to live past the games even though they went through pain to receive glory and life. The reward for winning the games was well deserved but they had to deal with the pain, like the Minotaur had to deal with the fact that King Minos threw

The famous book The Maze Runner by James Smith Dashner, is the famous story about a young man named Thomas who wakes up in the middle of a metallic box that serves as an elevator with no memory of his past, the box opens up to a place called “the Glade” with 60 other boys staring back at him as he tries to run away pass them. Every thirty days a new boy or supplies arrive from the box and for three years they have lived together trying to find clues through the maze that surrounds them; but as they start losing hope it all changes when something unprecedented happens and a girl along with a note arrive through the box. The book along with amazing imagery and relevance to today’s world manages to attract more than just teenagers but anybody that is up for the challenge of the maze, and that is just the purpose of this paper to demonstrate multiple reason of why this book not only deserves to be read but it should hold a place in the literary canon.