Uncle Basil In The Sniper

Intelligence
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change”(Stephen Hawking)
These three characters have used their heads to solve hard problems.Uncle Basil tricks his family. The sniper tricks and kills his enemy. Thomas solves the maze.
In the story, “You Can’t Take It With You”,(Written by George S. Kaufman) Uncle Basil was intelligent even after he died. First, Uncle Basil had his nephew Vernon go get envelopes from the bank because he knew Vernon wouldn't check or steal the envelopes.Then Uncle Basil had his coffin lined with the envelopes so they would be cremated along with Uncle Basil himself. “I did take it with me” is what Uncle Basil had written in his will.Uncle Basil’s will revealed to his family that the envelopes in his coffin contained large amounts of money and it was too late for his family to get any of it. In the end Basil fooled his greedy family and made sure they wouldn’t get any of his money.
In the story, “The Sniper”, The sniper showed that he was an intelligent soldier. In the beginning, after Being shot by the enemy sniper the sniper took care of his wound and was able to compose himself and think of a plan. Thinking he had won the battle after the snipers successful decoy the enemy sniper dropped his guard and the second he did the sniper

has shot and killed the enemy sniper with his revolver. “He took of his cap and placed it on the end of his rifle and pushed it up as a decoy”. In the end the sniper proved that even though the odds were against him, he was intelligent enough to think of plan that fooled and killed his enemy.
In the story ,“Maze Runner”, Thomas showed more than once that he possessed an Intellect that he and others didn't know he had.

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

it.
All three of this characters have used their heads to solve problems. Out of these three characters The Sniper was the most intelligent. He was able to trick and kill his enemy even after he had being shot. He was able to adapt to his situation, compose himself, tend to his wound and think of a plan while under extreme pressure.

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