Essay On The Maze Runner

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The Maze Runner

The Maze Runner by James Dashner is a science fiction novel that includes action and thriller. The novel is about a sixteen year old boy named Thomas who wakes up with no memory from where he came from or who he is or what he was doing there and in a metal cage box surrounded by many teenage boys looking at him weirdly. Throughout the novel there is many science-fiction themes and characteristics displayed such as futuristic technology, alien, robot like creatures environmental and social changes also unrealistic and fictional events.

The Maze Runner shows great representation of futuristic technology. All of the teenage boys who have now adapted to their lives outside of the maze which they call the glade the young boy …show more content…

The changing happens after being stung by a griever when injected with the serum that will save them and help them return to their normal self, "The changing brings back memories just little snippets, but definite memories of before we came to this horrible place, anyone who go through it acts like a bloody psycho when it's over" (Thomas ch 23 pg 149). The changing puts the victims in a state of shock and illness until they are healed and fully recovered. In addition to strange unexplained events all of the young teenage boys are living outside of the maze (the glade) in a controlled community by the creators of the maze. The people who created the maze kidnapped these kids and wiped their memories and put them in the maze to fend for themselves and learn to find a way out and escape in all of a plan for their experiment. The teens go through major social and environmental little changes, not being able to remember their prior lives and adapting to the new environmental changes takes a toll on the gladers as they have to develop new skills to live in their new environment. Social and environmental changes are also elements of the science-fiction genre also including unrealistic mind turning events and

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