The Maze Runner: The Death Cure

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Maze Runner: The Death Cure is the third and final book in the nonfiction series The Maze Runner Trilogy written by James Dashner. James Dashner with his famous writing, beat out Brandon Sanderson, Brandon Mull, Jeffrey Scott Savage, and Jessica Day George to win the 2008 Whitney Award for Best Youth Fiction. James also, while in college trained and worked in finance and accounting. He’s now a full-time writer and doesn’t miss numbers at all. Surprisingly Enders Game and Lord of the Flies heavily influenced the Maze Runner. Maze Runner: Death Cure is about Thomas running around ragged during the first two books of The Maze Runner series. First he had to escape the Maze with his Glader friends in Book One, then, in Book Two, he had to survive …show more content…

Thomas is not happy with WICKED. They let him out, and Rat Man, the dude who gave Thomas his orders for the Scorch Trials, escorts him into a room full of his friends from the Glade. Now everyone is back together. Thomas convinces one of the people at WICKED to drive him to the Right Arm’s boss. But something unexpected happens. Thomas sees Newt hanging around on the highway. Thomas gets out of his van and tries to tell Newt to come with them, but Newt attacks Thomas. Newt keeps screaming at Thomas to kill him. After a lot of confrontation,Thomas puts Newt out of his misery. When he enters WICKED's headquarters, he's told that he's the Final Candidate and that WICKED needs his brain to save mankind. Thomas goes to a bathroom and plants a device that helps the Right Arm’s group disable WICKED's weapons. Then he stalls for a while. Just as they're about to leave, Grievers start coming to life. Thomas kills all of them but one, and the last one slices a few people to pieces. Luckily, Thomas is able to kill that one, too, right before it slices through him. The “Gladers” exit the Maze, and they rush towards the Flat Trans area. But sadly, as …show more content…

It’s upsetting that it made this big of a cliffhanger. It felt like the author had absolutely no idea where to go with this story. I still feel like a majority of the book was left unexplained. For me it was completely ridiculous to have Thomas refuse getting his memories back. If Thomas, the main character doesn't remember, then the author doesn’t have to bother thinking up an explanation. I'm not even going to try and list all the questions I still have, because there is a bunch of them. I still say that there was absolutely no point to Teresa for a matter of fact. She had more action in the second book, but nothing happened with her in this book. This was just one more thing that I thought was just tossed in there just because. Teresa and Brenda were interchangeable. It feels like Dashner felt like he needed more people in his story. I mean, these characters were very interchangeable that I thought that Brenda was Teresa. Personally, I think that my idea was better than the one that the book had. I would have offered some type of explanation. I am upset, but Maze Runner was good. But sadly this book series got worse by the book. I really hope Kill Order is nothing like this book. If not I probably won’t read it. All in all, James Dashner killed off the great characters; he killed also the plot too. This story could have been very good but all these questions with no answers and great

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