Summary Of The Scorch Trials By James Dashner

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When reading the text “The Scorch Trials” by James Dashner, I combined the use of many reading strategies, For example, I used background knowledge, making connections, inferring, predicting, and questioning. Firstly, based on my background knowledge it isn’t a good idea to trust someone who you just met. This is because you don’t know if their motives are pure or not. While I was thinking about this, I remembered Officer Toni telling us two years ago about how many kids got in trouble when they trusted someone they didn’t know. My connection led me back to the book and the author (James Dashner) describing how Thomas felt when Jorge entered, “Thomas felt a belt of tension cinch inside him” (page 145). This led me to infer if Thomas felt this