How important is truth, love, and identity to a novel? After I completed James Dashner’s The Maze Runner, I began to read his book The Scorch Trials and I am currently on page 244. The Scorch Trials begins right where The Maze Runner left off. In the book starts with the group of boys known as the gladers being bewildered and Teresa nowhere to be found, then they meet a man who tells them that they are infected with the flare which is a disease and they have to travel across “the scorch” in two weeks to get to a “safe haven” to get the cure. In most successful and interesting books moments of truth, love, and identity tend to be present. In James Dashner’s The Scorch Trials I have been seeing and evaluating moments of truth, love, and identity.
James Dashner added many moments of “self-truth” into his book The Scorch Trials. “And he knew she was telling the truth-something wasn’t right here.” (Dashner, 117) I chose this quote to represent truth in the book not because it has the word truth
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When the gladers traveled through the scorch they ran into Teresa, “She was more beautiful than he’d ever seen her in the maze, than any memories he could pull from the murky goop of what he’d recovered after the changing”. (Dashner, 115) After Thomas talked to Teresa they kissed and in Thomas’s words “For a moment it felt like nothing mattered anymore.” (Dashner, 116). Thomas and Teresa have felt a connection since they “met” in the first book, which has now turned into loving feelings for one another. After they kissed Teresa told Thomas to run away from her because his life was in danger and it was devastating for both of them because they love each other and have been separated for a while and now only got to be together for a few moments. I determined that James Dashner did a good job of adding love into his novel, and next I will see how well he did at including identity