Book Review: The Maze Runner By James Dashner

What is the Maze Runner book about? The Maze Runner is written by James Dashner, which is about this young boy named Thomas arrives at the glade with his memory wiped out. When he gets there Thomas has many questions that he wants to be answered, but it takes a while for him to figure out the answer. He has an urge to go out with the rest of the runners into the maze. Ably the leader of the glade tells him he must not go in there because they have strict rules that must not be broken unless he wants to die out there. Later on, a girl named Teresa arrives and everything starts changing. Thomas remembers her in the past, but he can’t remember from where. They began talking and they start creating plans together. They both understand that in order to escape, they must all work as a team. In the glade, people had tasks for everything. For example, Frypan was the cook, Ably was in charge of most things, but he had a group of keepers that would choose what to do if someone committed a crime or plans for the maze, and Thomas, on the other hand, was a newbie who was ambitious to become a runner like Minho. One day Thomas went

Gally said, “ I’m dead serious. How can we trust this shank after less than a week?. I swear on my life I’m gonna stop it. Kill you if I have to” (158, 163). Gally was trying to put people against Thomas and he began fighting with some of the keepers. One positive and a negative outcome made a change. Chuck’s death was horrible. He died trying to protect Thomas from being stabbed. The positive outcome was that this brought the team a closer since they were all sad they lost a member. This mostly affected Thomas. “ Thomas snapped. He rushed forward, threw himself on Gally, grasping with his fingers like claws. He found the boy’s throat, squeezed, fell to the ground on top of him… Thomas started punching’ (357). This affected Thomas so much that he started punching Gally for it. Even though these problems they stayed