The Maze Runner: Conflict and Resolution

The Maze Runner is about a boy named Thomas who is brainwashed and put in this Maze with many other boys. There are walls around the Maze that close every night to protect the kids. The walls protect them from Grievers, giant lizards with lots of sharp tools like saws, needles, and scissors on their backs. Thomas and his friends go out into the Maze every day hoping they can find a way out. One day a girl is delivered into the Maze with a note saying that she has triggered the Ending. The Ending means that if they don't figure out the Maze soon, everybody will die from the Grievers and none of them will survive. A couple days later, Thomas finds a black hole at the edge of a cliff where the Grievers can enter and exit the maze. They boys decide to call this the Griever Hole. That night, the walls don't close and Grievers pick off kids one by one. Thomas figures out that the Maze is a code, but does he have the guts to stop all of this madness? In The Maze Runner, there are many conflicts. A minor conflict is that Alby, the Glader's leader, is stung by a Griever and is serious pain. Now that the leader is not mobile, Newt has to take over. The main conflict is that all of the boys are focused on surviving and escaping the Maze. Many boys die in this process, but it narrows down solutions for the Maze. The key moment in the resolution is when Thomas realizes the patterns of the Maze spell out words. Thomas figures this out a little too late. The Grievers have already taken five kids. The Maze spells out five words. Thomas thinks that you have to jump into the Griever Hole, and type the code words into a computer. Thomas does just that and finds his way out of the Maze and into the world. There are also about twenty kids who survive the escape.