Running the Maze Imagine being trapped inside of a place with no memory of how you got there and the only way to get out was through a maze. James Dashner’s young adult, science fiction novel, The Maze Runner is about just that. There were a brunch of themes in the novel but the most important ones were maintaining rules and orders, making sacrifices, never giving up, and manipulation, even though something may look simple it might be harder than it seems. All these themes were practiced by Thomas and other Gladers in the Glade. Dashner also wrote the sequels to the Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials and Death Cure. He also wrote the prequel to the Maze Runner, The Kill Order, plus other series of novels. As the novel proves, a problem so simple could be bigger than you think. The Maze Runner explains the Gladers’ attempt of escaping the maze after the arrival of a new Glader. It had been two years since Alby, the first Glader, and other Gladers after him had entered the Glade and started to explore the maze. None of them remember anything from their past life. Eventually they came up with a set of rules and became a small …show more content…
The book was suspenseful; it kept drawing me in for more, each and each day. The book really enlightened me because the suspense and action kept my mind thinking and racing with thoughts that I thought I could connect to the book and make predictions on the future events in the book. The themes between my paragraphs were basically saying you have to look at the bigger picture of the story, just like Thomas did in the maze. The theme of my essay correlates with my title. What I mean about ‘running the maze’ is that to get through the maze you have to look at the bigger picture and find a solution. Although we are done running the maze, we still have to pass the scorch trials before we are even coming close to the