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The science book I read is The Maze Runner, by James Dashner. This is a science fiction book with interesting ideas for science readers. The story starts with a teen boy arrives at a grassy area by a type of elevator. He sees a large group of boys. The main leader is Alby. The teen boy is the new boy and is given a nickname of greenie. He remembers nothing and can’t remember his name either. This place he arrives in is called the glade and is enclosed by four tall walls. All the boys in the glade got here the same way greenie did. greenie remembers his name as Thomas. Thomas learns that the work in the glade is divided among the boys. Some are cooks, others care for animals, and a few are runners. The boys in this story use agricultural science to survive off the land. Runners are boys …show more content…

We also would study this behavior in psychology too. "It looked like an experiment gone terribly wrong - something from a nightmare. Part animal, part machine, the griever rolled and clicked along the stone pathway. Its body resembled a gigantic slug, sparsely covered in hair and glistening with slime, grotesquely pulsating in and out as it breathed. It had no distinguishable head or tail, but front to end it was at least six feet long, four feet thick." Thomas kills one in the story. We learn that it is a mechanical. Thomas learns how it works and it helps him solve more of the mystery of the maze. Today we use computer science to build items similar to the griever in for movies. We also use this science to build computers, machines to help doctors, and machines to help people who are old live longer. There is basically a machine or computer for everything. Some jobs are being replaced by machines.
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