Summary Of James Dashner's The Maze Runner

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The Maze Runner, a Novel By James Dashner, verbalizes about a boy that arouses in a metal box with no recollection of who he genuinely really is, when he soon realizes that he is in an elevator being taken to a place called “The Glade”. Lay there a community with males only, every week come supplies and every month a new person comes. A place circumvented by 4 equilateral walls, and hundreds of feet in height. Each of the sides have an opening precisely in the middle, but only one of the sides open daily. Outside those inscrutable walls lies a dismaying maze. 2 people called “The Runner's” study the maze and perpetually attempting to find a way to get out while challenged by mysterious alien-like creatures are called Grievers, they are dark,

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