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Moral Values In James Dashner's The Death Cure

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In the book The Death Cure by James Dashner the author gives a thought provoking moment of when Thomas has to make the decision of letting his friend spiral into madness or kill him to save his sanity. This arises the question of does going against your moral values justify the act of doing the right thing. In the passage we think about this because the right thing for Thomas to do is to go with what Newt says to do and help him keep his sanity over his longer life that would be painful and hard to live through with no control of his brain. However, his moral values would be to keep his best friend alive and find another way. This can be seen when he said in the passage “I can't Newt.” How could Newt ask him to do something like this? How could
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