The Maze Runner Essay

I just finished reading The Maze Runner by James Dashner. I believe this book falls in the genre of realistic fiction. “Dashner writes in a format that is simple and enjoyable for readers of any reading level. Maze runner and it's sequels paint a disturbing yet frighteningly believable view of the future.”;a customer review on Amazon. This book's intended reading age about 10 years or older due to violence and ability to read.

Minho, Teresa, and Thomas are the main characters. Minho is is a tall, skinny, and very fast person who likes to say smart-alek jokes in a life or death situation. Teresa is tall, has black hair and can speak telepathy with Thomas who is also tall and very fast. In The Maze Runner there are about 50 teenage boys (that call themselves the Gladers and can’t remember anything but their own name) get stuck in the heart of a maze that is made out of concrete walls that tower over 100 feet above them. In the maze are creatures that can climb the walls, they try to kill

A day later Teresa came into the Glade. This is very rare because before this time everybody came a month apart. Teresa came in a coma, it lasted for about 9 days. A first too. Then somehow Teresa and Thomas learned that they can speak telepathy with each other! The Maze moves doors each night, with the Gladers in the middle. But after Teresa arrives that stops happening and a bunch of Grieves came through the open doors and kill one person, then leave. They do that the next two nights. Then Thomas has an idea, maybe the Maze is a code? Then Minho saw three Grievers disappear through a hole. The Gladers decide that they will explore the hole. They find a computer and a keyboard. The Gladers type in a code, they survived the Maze, well, some of them. I believe the theme of The Maze Runner is never give up, I think this because they almost gave up and would never have solved the