How could, “Maze Runner,” by James Dashner and, “Ender’s Game,” by Orson Scott Card possibly relate? “Maze Runner,” is about a group of boys stuck in a maze and they don’t know how they got there or how to escape. “Ender’s Game,” is about a young boy named Ender that is super intelligent and the government is using him to be their new commander against the buggers. Although the stories have very different plots the author’s use both character archetype and mood to help develop a theme of people with lots of power will go to extreme heights to keep their power. First, Dashner uses mood in, “Maze Runner,” to make the reader feel desperate. Towards the end of the book grievers begin attacking the boys, AKA the gladers. The boys are being attacked and their is nothing they can do to fend off the grievers. James Dashner uses imagery to develop this desperate mood. "Frozen, Thomas watched as one of the griever's long arms reached for the lifeless body. That was all it took for him to break his fear. He scrambled to his feet, searched the floor around him for a weapon. All he saw were knives-they couldn't help him now. Panic exploded within …show more content…
Thomas, the main character, is beginning to realise there are people controlling him in the maze. "A beetle blade. It's how they watch us, Alby had said."... "Logic told him it had to be his mind playing tricks on him, but he swore he saw the word WICKED scrawled down it's rounded back in large, green letters (pg. 65-67 ch.9)." Thomas has now realised that WICKED are the people that put him in the maze. We know that WICKED are the people in charge of the experiment so therefore they fit the ruling character archetype, characters that crave power and want to rule others. Dashner uses this ruling character archetype to worn the reader of how easy it is to be controlled by power hungry people, and we need to be careful of who we listen