Trust. The word itself creates a sort of wonder that everyone in the human race has yet to understand. Some problems can be fixed, but this one, even the most intelligent of people cannot understand. There is betrayal, and surprising effects, maybe a good effect every so often. It can change a relationship, forever. In the books The Scorch Trials, by James Dashner, and The Prisoner of Azkaban, By J.K. Rowling use the same technique of dialogue to show the reader opposing viewpoints on the motif of trust. The ideas that we have about someone, or the amount of trust we have put into them can change over the course of events, and time.
Starting off with the book, The Scorch Trials, whose author is James Dashner, through the evidence in the book,
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we can see the relationship between Teresa and Thomas, the two main characters. At first, when Thomas met Teresa at the beginning of the previous book, he felt a strong relationship with her, like a friend that was meant to be. However, the author decided that the two characters would now show the reader the lesson; Those who trust another person, or thought that they could for a very long time, can have their opinions changed due to another person's actions and attitudes, which have changed. Through this lesson that Dashner portrays, Teresa’s attitudes towards Thomas has changed, she has decided to hurt him, instead of helping him, even though Thomas always thought that she would be there for him. There is a twist though, Teresa tries to convince him that he should trust her no matter what, giving Thomas a false sense of hope. “Tom, don’t try to talk back, just listen. Something terrible is going to happen to you tomorrow. An awful, awful thing. You’re gonna be hurt and you’re gonna be scared. But you have to trust me.” (Dashner, 249). Thomas hears this statement in his head in Teresa’s voice. She tries to convince Thomas that everything is going to be okay, but really, it’s not. This is something complicated that the author included to make the idea of trust more interesting. Because of this Thomas, later on, has a different opinion on her than what he should have. “‘Don’t worry, we’ll kill him,’ Teresa replied. ‘We’ll kill [Thomas] just the way they told us to. It’s his punishment for what he did to me.’” (Dashner, 268). Ah, there it is, that trust that Thomas thought that he could have in Teresa is gone, she wants to kill him now. If trust is being able to believe someone in what they say and do through any situation, then they probably wouldn’t be trying to kill their friends, meaning that the trust in this relationship, is lost. Both still have the same motif of trust, but The Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K.
Rowling, takes a different turn on it. Different from The Scorch Trials where trust is lost, trust is gained in Harry Potter’s adventure with the Prisoner of Azkaban. Someone the entire wizarding world didn’t trust, Sirius Black (AKA, THE prisoner of Azkaban). Harry was angry with him and called him out for helping the person who killed his parents, Lord Voldemort. Harry, therefore, had the right to be mad at him. But now, he was on the loose and it seemed as if Hogwarts, Harry’s wizarding school, was the safest place to be. But as aspects of the book lead up to the big climax, Harry comes face to face with Black, to originally hurt him, but his opinion was changed over the course of that part of the book, and although still working towards it, he puts some of his trust in Sirius. After a session of yelling back and forth between Black and Harry, Sirius says “‘But if you knew the whole story’ ‘The whole story?’ Harry repeated, a furious pounding in his ears. ‘You sold them to Voldemort. That’s all I need to know.’ ‘You’ve got to listen to me,’ Black said, and there was a note of urgency in his voice now. ‘You’ll regret it if you don’t… You don’t understand…’ ‘I understand a lot better than you think,’ said Harry, and his voice shook more than ever.” (Rowling, 224). As we said, trust is a lot more complicated than some people think. Through Sirius’ words to Harry, Harry tries to be mad a Sirius, but when Black states that Harry doesn’t know that whole story, Harry gets confused, resulting in a moment to think, which was crucial. If Sirius had not had that moment, who knows what could have happened, maybe the next moment wouldn’t have happened at all. On page 231, Remus Lupin explains the situation with Black, to Harry, and because it is coming from someone Harry already trusts (Lupin), Harry is able to start to change his opinion about Sirius. “ ‘Everyone thought Sirius killed Peter,’
said Lupin, nodding. ‘I believed it myself — until I saw the map tonight. Because the Marauder’s map never lies… Peter’s alive. Ron’s holding him, Harry.’” (Rowling, 231) Using the evidence of Lupin’s words and the Marauder’s map was what goes to show Harry that his opinion about Black might need to change, because later on, he may have never known as much as he does now about his deceased dad, James Potter, because of Sirius Black, but that’s a story for another day. Although the two books are by two different authors, the way that the two showed the same motif, one positive and one negative, was through the dialogue between characters. Trust is something that some readers think can be revealed more through actions, but truly is mainly through what characters say to each other, which is why dialogue is important in both The Scorch Trials and The Prisoner of Azkaban. The words that the characters say can sway a person in one direction of trust or another. Quotes throughout the book can have the character saying straight out that they need to trust them, or other words that can apply trust. As mentioned above, Teresa said flat out that Thomas needed to trust her, “Tom, don’t try to talk back, just listen. Something terrible is going to happen to you tomorrow. An awful, awful thing. You’re gonna be hurt and you’re gonna be scared. But you have to trust me.” (Dashner, 249). But of course, the dialogue later revealed that Thomas, in fact, could not trust her. This is similar to J.K Rowling’s book because the words and conversations that went on between two, or more characters, changed the main characters opinion about another person. “‘But if you knew the whole story’ ‘The whole story?’ Harry repeated, a furious pounding in his ears. ‘You sold them to Voldemort. That’s all I need to know.’ ‘You’ve got to listen to me,’ Black said, and there was a note of urgency in his voice now. ‘You’ll regret it if you don’t… You don’t understand…’ ‘I understand a lot better than you think,’ said Harry, and his voice shook more than ever.” (Rowling, 224). Harry’s denial soon changed into being silent and doing his best to listen to what Lupin has to say about Sirius, and Lupin’s words managed to create a different mood of the scene, so they were able to create a beginning of a bond of trust. Although many readers of these two books can say that the actions between to characters were what created a similarity between the two books, the fact that they both show sides of trust through different conversations is what creates a lesson for the reader to learn. Overall, the writing styles of the books are different but when paying attention to the little details in each, the reader is able to find the similarities between the two well-known books. Trust. Still, something that we try to figure out, something beyond the dark, deep, depths of the earth. From reading these two books, we can start to learn something about the world’s curiosity about whom to trust, and whom not to trust.
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