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Dystopi The Scorch Trials By James Dashner

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The Scorch Trials By James Dashner The future is an unknown fate for humans. Know one will know what will happen in the future or when it will happen. The Scorch Trials, by James Dashner illustrates a possible future for humans because a dystopian novel. The story is based on a boy named Thomas and all of its friends/survivors that have escaped the first experiment, “the maze”. The maze was an experiment to use their brains to try to find a cure for the flare, a disease that eats your brain and makes you go crazy. Now, Thomas and all other survivors must go through the scorch in a 2 weeks span to get the cure for flare which many of them are infected with. One the elements of dystopia that are present in the story is that the world is overrun
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