Maze Runner Compare And Contrast Essay

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Friends are good help when in need.

Are friends the best resources when in need? Yes, no? Well in these stories they are. Like in Harry Potter, he used his friends all the time like when he is wondering Voldemort is still really still alive who are the people that he comes to…his friends. Or in The Maze Runner Thomas when thomas is wondering about if he should go out in the maze and face the greevier’s. Who are the people that he goes to...his friends! In these two stories Harry Potter and The Maze Runner there are some similarities, but there are also some differences.

In these two stories the first compare and contrast is that they both use their friends when they have their inner demons. Like when Harry wants to go to the ministry of magic because he sees a vision of the …show more content…

In Harry Potter when Harry at the end of the series is going to let Voldemort cast a spell at him Harry knew that he was going to die, but he did that because he did not want Voldemort to hurt anybody else. Of course Harry didn’t die because the author wanted the main antagonist to live. Now in The Maze Runner Thomas knew that he would have side effects, but he also knew that he would wake up.

Now my third and final compare and contrast is that friends would also sacrifice for themselves also. In Harry Potter and in The Maze Runner Harry and Thomas’s friends both sacrificed for them, (Spoiler Alert) like in Harry Potter when Ron’s brother Fred, dies for Harry. Just like his parents, friends, teachers, uncles I could go on. Or in The Maze Runner when Alby dies for Thomas or Chuck.
Now where there is comparing, there is always contrasting so my contrasting is that when Harry’s friend’s die he stays with them (if he can).
Now Thomas from The Maze Runner has to keep moving he doesn’t look back he has to keep on moving forward (or backwards, wherever the maze takes him). Besides Chuck (which was probably his best friend at the time) he left them for

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