Thursday, October 11, 2012

The Maze Runner: Cause and Effect

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. 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, the cause is that the girl is delivered into the Maze the day after Thomas is. There are two problems with this. 1) There have never been any girls in The Maze. 2) Usually, a new boy is delivered every month. The girl also has a note that says that she has triggered the Ending which means that the Creators have waited long enough, the boys and the girl need to start figuring out how to get out of the Maze. The effect is that Thomas realizes that the Maze is a code and that he needs to find a place to put this code. He realizes that the black hole at the edge of the cliff is a perfect place to go. Thomas finds the computer and puts in the code words. A door opens and Thomas and twenty other kids escape into the real world.

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