Introduction James Dashner’s The Scorch Trials, book two in the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, is a fiction book that begins where book one of The Maze Runner ends. In this book, Thomas, the protagonist, and his friends known as “the Gladers” live and fight for survival in an apocalyptic world created by sun flares. The Gladers learn that they are just pawns to a corporation called WICKED (World In Catastrophe: Killzone Experiment Department). This corporation claims that their purpose is to find a cure to a disease called “The Flare.” The disease affects the mind and makes the the infected carrier go crazy. WICKED puts the Gladers through a series of tests, which they call the “variables” to see how they will react. WICKED claims that these tests are for for the greater good. Summary The novel The Scorch Trials begins with Thomas waking up in a dormitory with the other gladers in a facility where they perceive that they have been “saved” from WICKED and their sadistic test in the maze. However this is far from the truth. Their memories had been erased by the “creators.” They lived in a giant maze with a glade in the middle for two years and every month a shipment of …show more content…
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