Who doesn’t love a poor chuddy kid that justs wants to have fun. In the Maze Runner Chuck fits this role perfectly. I think that Chuck’s death is a major turning point for Thomas and the entire series. In this chapter I will discuss Chuck, his loyalty and death.
First Chuck is an unfortunate serotype: The chubby kid who is lonely and sometimes left out. If he were a Disney character he would be a sidekick. Also Chuck is the bottom of the social standings because he is a Slopper, the job that cleans up after everyone. All of these things are important because it sets Chuck up to be like a little brother to Thomas. It is a perfect time for Thomas to “adopt” him. This is important because if Chuck was very athletic and high on the social ladder Thomas would want to be like him and look up to him.
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As you know they have just escaped the Maze and are now greeted by Gally and a WICKED lady. Gally throws a knife at Thomas and chuck jumps in front of it to save Thomas’s life. I think this scene is a major turning point for Thomas. I think Thomas learns a very important lesson that he needs to know going forward in his journey. What is that lesson you ask, Everything happens for a purpose. I think this lesson is very important for Thomas when he finds that he and the other Gladers are being tested. But there is one problem, I don’t think Thomas fully understands this. When Chuck dies Thomas completely loses it. Thomas loses all hope in life after the Maze. This is important because Thomas’s journey isn’t over when Chuck dies. I know that Thomas will continually have the odds stacked against him and for WICKED to find there gold child/Thomas. I think WICKED was trying to teach Thomas a lesson that he will need in the Scorch Trials. It is important for Thomas to almost completely forget about Chuck after his death. I think Thomas is to valuable to WICKED and the other Gladers to sit and stress about Chuck’s
In The Maze Runner, Thomas recalls nothing of his life except for his name. He finds himself surrounded by a bunch of boys. Like all the other Gladers, Thomas appears in the Glade terrified and disoriented. However, he senses a powerful bond to the Maze. He quickly exhibits courage and confidence when he saves Alby and Minho from the Grievers after they had to spend the night in the Maze.
But just before the cops could take him to get unwound, he runs away preventing his parts from saving lives and keeping his own life instead. In The Maze Runner, Thomas and his friends, after they get out of the maze trials, resent the people behind everything they had just been through, even
First, he looked at the drawn maps of the maze and it didn't take him long to figure out how to solve the maze and how to do it. “We need wax paper and scissors”(from chapter 15) is what Thomas said to his friends, as if he didn't want to loose this sudden train of thought . Another example of Thomas's unknown intellect was when he intentionally threw himself into a griever to go threw the changing to get some of his memorise to see if he would remember anything that would be helpful for him and his friends. This all proves that Thomas knew what he was doing and how to do
Now Thomas from The Maze Runner has to keep moving he doesn’t look back he has to keep on moving forward (or backwards, wherever the maze takes him). Besides Chuck (which was probably his best friend at the time) he left them for
Chuck’s special bond with Thomas flourished and began when he became Thomas’s first friend at the Glade. Chuck is more welcoming and fond of Thomas than the other boys seeing that he reassures Thomas constantly: “Don’t
...lways in change, and that’s the only constant he can hold on to. As time progresses , a lot of things have to move forward , and if a human being is consumed in inspecting and analyzing every second and every minute passing by , that human will never evolve. In the 4 years Chuck has spent on the island, he has learnt lots about nature and himself. The experiences he has gained serve as hands molding Chuck’s character and engraving it with self-reliance. Self-reliance plays a major role in the plot of the movie, as it is the only way Chuck uses to reach safety. Without being self-reliant and depending on himself, Chuck would’ve never made that raft to reach safety and would’ve never been found drifting by a passing cargo ship. It’s just like the movie is itself screaming out loud a transcendentalist doctrine: Self-reliance is your way to safety and a better life.
When the doors to the port-a-potty washed up on the shore and Chuck began organizing his escape one would argue that this was Chuck’s self-actualization moment. He eventually finishes the raft and sets off into the ocean. One morning a storm hits, sending Wilson off the raft. With the majority of his raft destroyed, his food gone along with Wilson gone, Chuck falls back down the hierarchy. Luckily he was found and nursed back to health. The movie leaves off with Chuck standing in the middle of a crossroad deciding what he wants to do with his new found freedom and having yet to reach self-actualization again.
Doomsday. Armageddon. 2012. The end of the world or the apocalypse is known by its many names and has become an extremely viral subject for this generation. But, imagine living in a world not playfully joking around about the apocalypse, but strategically trying to survive it. This is the harsh reality for Thomas, a teenager living in a virus polluted and self-destructing planet. A deadly disease has broken out called “the flare” which causes the most sane and rational people to become raging and hysterical flesh eaters. Not only has the virus taken the lives of millions, but the extreme climates have also killed the few remaining. In the novels The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials, Thomas and his friends will have to fight to survive a world taken over by the sick and protect one other from those who say they want to help. The two novels share a touching story of young lives entwined during a difficult time and the lengths the characters go through in order to survive the apocalypse. The ultimate question within these novels is what is one willing to risk in order to survive? Within the novels The Death Cure and The Scorch Trials, Thomas is forced to fight for his survival on a daily basis, and in doing so he is constantly faced with either having to betray those closest to him, or remain the honest and true man he is, in order to survive. Within these novels, relationships are tested to such extremes that the repercussions of each survival based decision the characters make have the possibility of endangering the lives of those closest to them, but ultimately is a test to see who remains true to themselves and does not sell out their friends or themselves.
Hey you, Yeah… YOU! Would you want to live in a society where you live in a box for your entire life, and mean absolutely nothing to the just about anyone? For science right? NOPE! Obviously, Societies fall as a result of a corrupt government, Failing Social Structure, and Sickness. It is due to these factors that many great societies such as Greece, Rome, and the society depicted in the book Maze Runner fall.
Chuck led a pretty lonely life on the island, being there for over four years I was surprised he did not
The novel The Maze Runner by James Dashner begins with a teenage boy waking up in an elevator who has no memory of the past, only that his name is Thomas. When the doors of the elevator open up he is pulled into a humongous square surrounding, called the Glade, by a group of teenage boys. The boys in the Glade refer to themselves as the ‘Gladers’. Thomas learns that the Gladers have lived in there for two years and that the Glade is located in the center of a maze which contains a labyrinth of high walls that move during the night and deadly creatures called grievers. The Glade is led by two boys, Alby and Newt; they both maintain order in the Glade by enforcing strict rules and jobs that keep the Gladers busy. A day after Thomas’ arrival an unknown girl arrives in the Glade. This shocks everyone because the Gladers only receive a new person every month, never within the same week. This also shocks everyone because she was the only girl in a maze full of boys. The girl also gives a message that everything is going to change and that she is the last one ever. Right after her message she immediately falls into a coma. The arrival of the girl causes many things to go chaotic including the sun seizing to rise, the Gladers stop receiving supplies from the creators of the maze, and the doors of the Glade that protect the Gladers from the grievers at night stop closing. When the girl, Teresa wakes up she informs Thomas that they both knew each other in the past and that the maze was a code. Thomas and the people who run around the maze to map out the labyrinth, the runners, look through the archives of the maps and find out the code. Then the leader of the runners, Minho, figures out that the cliff they thought was just a cliff was actua...
In The Maze Runner, Thomas and a bunch of other guys from the glade are stuck in a giant maze with no way out. Thomas is the main character and this is how he follows the hero’s journey and becomes a hero. Reasons are Call to adventure, Ordeal, Death\, and rebirth, Crossing the threshold.
In the book “The Maze Runner” by James Dashner, the main idea is a group of people called the Gladers, and they are trying to escape a maze. A company named Wicked made it for them to find a way to escape. In the beginning of this book, Thomas comes up to the Glade from a box. He doesn't know who he is or why he is in the Glade and Thomas has lost his memory about all the things he knew before getting in the Glade.
Thomas needs to use his friends to work together to escape the maze and its underlying creatures. Teamwork is one of the biggest factors and the creators of the maze are trying to have them all work together. “Like I said, they wanted to test us, see how we’d react to what they call the Variables, and to a problem that has no solution. See if we could work together-build a community, even. Everything was provided for us, and the problem was laid out as one of the most common puzzles known to a civilization-a maze.”
Mr. Thomas is a symbol of the strong generation of people before that of Trevor’s generation. This generation of hardy people value kindness, tradition and general respect for things and people, oppostie to that of Trevor’s nihilistic beliefs. Kindness, in the case of the Wormsley Common Gang, is a foreign concept and thus is not understood in there day to day lives. We see this in their first confrontation with Mr. Thomas as he generously offers them a gift. Mr. Thomas says, “I got some chocolates...