James Dashner’s “The Scorch Trials” is the second book in a five-book series that continues where the main character, Thomas, left off. After escaping the maze, he and the other gladers realize that their trials aren’t over. They are tasked with having to walk a hundred miles north in a place known as the Scorch. The Scorch is a wasteland with unbearable heat and a disease known as the flair. During Thomas’s trip, multiple people tried to kill him or his friends. Slowly Thomas starts to learn the truth of what is going on in the world and why he is dealing with the hardships he has been dealing with. The book has trouble with the way it is planned out. With predictable outcomes, and bits of the story that didn’t really lead to anything. The book is supposed to be confusing, and it is, but in all the wrong ways. …show more content…
Thomas was labeled as being killed by Teresa and another group of girls that he did not know. This led to a predictable moment in the book where he is captured by the group and after a few whispers of encouragement and reassurance from Teresa, Thomas still continues to worry that Teresa will kill him. “With a jolt he remembered the tag outside her door back in the dorm. The Betrayer, he’d completely forgotten about it until that moment. Things started to make more sense.If they really told her to kill him, would she do it?” This feels obvious, that he isn’t going to die and instead she’s going to betray the other group. On the other end of things, it’s the book’s descriptiveness is on point. Not because of vivid writing, but because it only tells you what Thomas would have noticed. At one point Thomas is shot in the shoulder and instead of seeing everything going on we simply see what he realistically would see. “The impact knocked Thomas back, spinning him around so that he fell flat on his face, smacking his nose on the