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The Maze Runner Faith Quotes

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Does everyone in the world have a purpose to do something in life or a specific reason they were born at a certain place in the world? In the scientific fictional book, The Maze Runner, written by James Dashner shows the protagonist Thomas in a place he has never been to with many other kids that are trying to survive and all of the kids trying to find their purpose and the reason they were sent to this new world. This novel is about a big group of kids that were sent to a mysterious new place and the kids must survive under many difficult situations like robotic monsters and they are being watched by an organization that wants to see their survival skills. The conflict of The Maze Runner lets us readers understand this novel's theme. A very …show more content…

In the story there are many vindictive situations the kids must fight through and to never lose faith. “He looked over at Minho, huddled against the hall of the corridor. “I can't believe we're still alive,” he said。Minho said nothing, just nodded, his face devoid of expression”(Dashner, 140). This quote tells us how surprised Thomas is to survive the maze throughout the night which is something that has never happened before.This quote is showing us readers that Thomas and Minho survived the maze during night which was never thought to be possible. This quote is a great example of never losing faith because Thomas and Minho never gave up, never lost faith, and they believed that they will survive till the end. “Thomas pointed down the long tunnel. “I heard the door open down that way,” He tried to push away the ache of it all-the horrors of the battle they`d just won” (Dashner, 349). This quote showed us that Thomas and all of the remaining kids that survived the battle finally reached the exit after pummeling the monsters. This shows that all the kids had faith because they never stopped believing that there is an exit and risked their lives to reach the exit no matter what. From the text we can tell there are many times that the theme of never losing faith is reoccuring throughout the

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People around the world don’t realize the stance of perseverance and how it is used in everyday life for many. Perseverance is persistence in doing something no matter what may happen or get in your way of succeeding. In the memoir, The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls presents the stars and Venus as symbolism in order to unveil the amount of perseverance there shall be taken in life, ultimately illustrating that despite any hardship, you keep pushing through. Walls use of symbolism portrays the thought of specialness even when times are rough.

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The torturing and suffering caused is what widdles down the belief, and this present throughout the novel. Only the strong and the ones who have most faith would survive, yet at the same time, if they didn’t originally have faith, they could’ve avoided the concentration camps

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Not just faith in themselves, but in God. In Night, the main character Ellie stopped having faith in God, and that took a huge toll on his survival. He thought there was no reason to believe, “Why should I sanctify His name? The almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?”(Wiesel 33).

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Having a faith in something can help people through extremely difficult times, and difficult times and sometimes it even makes people stronger. People who go through a lot of suffering often have an extreme change of attitude, including Elie, Shlomo, Rabbi Eliahou, and Moshe the Beadle. Elie Wiesel sharing his story about German concentration

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Thomas More was a dedicated Catholic man, so because of this he did not approve of divorces. This was a problem when King Henry decided he wanted to divorce his current wife in order to re-marry another woman. Thomas More and his beliefs represent the person that escapes the caves because he doesn’t let the shadows that are being portrayed on the wall which would be lust, passion, and sex come in conflict with his beliefs that come with his religion. King Henry and his followers do not approve of Thomas More beliefs because it intrudes King Henry’s crave for the shadows that are portrayed on the wall; therefore, King Henry executes

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Courage has gone through many changes. It has been altered throughout races, cultures, religions, sex, and time. However, the core values of courage has always remained parallel. It is difficult to explain in words the meaning of courage, like describing a color, but everyone knows what courage is, how it feels, and how to perform it. In Harper Lee’s

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