The Roadmaid's Over The Maze Runner

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Speculative fiction is a genre that speculates regarding worlds that are unlike reality. It always involves a vision of the future, or an alternate world, that is employed by an author to discuss and explore ideas regarding their own society.

This is often wherever the speculation happens as such stories are generally involved with the future of humanity. It’s involved with wherever humanity is currently, and a lot of importantly, wherever it's headed. Speculative fiction is often seen as “the roadmap to tomorrow”. The term is commonly attributed to Robert A. Heinlein. In his first known use of the term, within the editorial of The Saturday Evening Post in 1947, Robert A. Heinlein used it specifically as a synonym for "science fiction”. Over …show more content…

The novel provides a distinctive insight into what the future may hold for the generations to come. The novel is set in a time where a disease called the ‘flare’ takes over the world. An organisation called WICKED takes a bunch of teenage boys and one girl and place them within a maze; trying to find a cure for the flare and to save mankind. In The Maze Runner, Thomas wakes up in a lift with no memory except for his name. When the lift opens, other boys who also have no memory except their names surround him. The Glade is surrounded by a maze with stonewalls. Every morning, the doors to the maze open, and every night they close. The Gladers do not want to be stuck in the maze when the walls close, for hideous monsters called Grievers could sting them. Typically, dystopian literature has been a way to address problems that are found in today's society and then exaggerate them so that it becomes what a society is based around. For example, in Fahrenheit 451 technology is used as an evil presence that has overtaken the world in which the characters live, and its impact is profound. The Hunger Games series reflects a society, in which one district is given great amount of power over others, leading to corruption, uninhibited consumption, and unnecessary

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