The Maze Runner

1. The Maze Runner By James Dashner

2. S Chapter 1- Setting The story takes place in the Glade. The Glade is a place where there are only teenagers; there way of surviving is to grow crops, with the water provided for them. The Glade has a climate that is dry and nice, it never rains in the Glade and there is never a cloud in the sky. The Glade is also surrounded by a maze in which there are monsters called Grievers that can bring severe damage to the human it attacks. A new teenager comes once every month. They also have a farm in which they have many animals. Lastly there is a maze around the Glade that is unsolvable, in which there is Grievers.

3. C Chapter 2- Characters- Alby Alby is one of the main characters in the book The Maze Runner. Alby is a hard headed leader in the glade. He eventually in the book gets stung by a griever but Thomas saves him. Alby is a protagonist in the book because he is trying to get out of the maze. Alby is a dynamic character because he gets stung by a griever and goes through the changing. After he goes through the changing he is saying that Thomas is bad just like Ben and Gally.

4. C Chapter 2- Characters- Thomas Thomas is the main character in the novel The Maze Runner, By James Dashner. Thomas is a very curious character in this book. Thomas eventually becomes a runner. He has thought that he should have always been one and he thought he had been to the glade before. Thomas is a protagonist because he did help to create the maze but now they had tried to erase his memory and sent him into the maze to try to solve it. Thomas is a dynamic character because he gets sung by a griever and goes through the changing.

5. C Chapter 2- Characters- Newt Newt is one of the main characters in the book The Maze Runner. Newt is almost always nervous and is worrying about bad things happening. Newt is a protagonist. He was sent to the Glade and want to get out of the maze as soon as possible. Newt is a static character and never changes.

6. C Chapter 2- Characters- Chuck Chuck is one of the minor characters in the book The Maze Runner. He is a younger boy in the glade and is Thomas’ guide of the maze. He is a very talkative boy and that kind of annoys Thomas in the book. He is a protagonist and wants to solve the maze. He is a static character during the book.

7. C Chapter 2- Characters- Minho Minho is one of the main characters in the story The Maze Runner. Minho is one of the runners in this book. He is a fast running Asian teenager. One of his many character traits is he is very brave because he travels out into the maze every day and fights the optical illusions within. Another character trait of his is that he has a sense of humor. Minho is protagonist. Minho is a static character.

8. Citation for Character Pages Thomas http://www.google.com/imgres?q=Thomas+the+maze+runner&um=1&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&biw=960&bih=694&tbm=isch&tbnid=8DXXFImpHMyzRM:&imgrefurl=http://www.totalfilm.com/features/30-books-that-could-be-the-next harry-potter/the-maze-runner&docid=8tcwIM88YxBv2M&imgurl=http://cdn.mos.totalfilm.com/images/t/the-maze-runner-645-75.jpg&w=645&h=287&ei=35PTTsrOO4q50QHxmfVJ&zoom=1&iact=hc&dur=657&sig=111742170435743172185&page=2&tbnh=87&tbnw=196&start=15&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:15&tx=177&ty=116&vpx=311&vpy=378&hovh=150&hovw=337 Alby http://www.google.com/imgres?q=alby+the+maze+runner&um=1&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&biw=1280&bih=852&tbm=isch&tbnid=0eQS2_I_WcFpwM:&imgrefurl=http://fantasycasting.blogspot.com/2010/08/maze-runner.html&docid=eRIXFmY_LkAneM&imgurl=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uqNpu6E0Dcg/TGs5W9cbpFI/AAAAAAAADPQ/nHTYldArpdA/s1600/mikebjordan.jpg&w=263&h=386&ei=TTLWTuSQB-HE2QWqiNlI&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=0&sig=111742170435743172185&page=1&tbnh=143&tbnw=102&start=0&ndsp=17&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0&tx=81&ty=43 Minho, Chuck and Newt http://fantasycasting.blogspot.com/2010/08/maze-runner.html

9. P Chapter 4-Plot- Rising Action • Rising action is the part of the book leading up to the Climax. • Thomas wakes up in the box and does not know what is happening. • Thomas meets the Gladers and is helped by a kid named Chuck. • The day after Thomas comes out of the box, a girl rises from the hole. This had never happened before. Only one new person would come a month. And as she comes out of the box she is in a coma and stays in it for a while. • Thomas meets the leaders of the gladers, Newt and Alby. • Minho comes back from his job of a runner with important news. He had found a dead Griever. A griever is a cow shaped slug with arms with saws and points with poison.

10. P Chapter 4-Plot- Rising Action (continued) • Albyand Minho go to look at it and Alby gets stung by it. They get back but not in time to get past the walls. Thomas jumps out into the maze just as the walls close. • Thomas, Alby and Minho survive the night out in the maze and are now kind of like heroes. • The girl speaks to Thomas in his head and she tells Thomas her name which is Teresa. • After Thomas saves Minho and Alby out I n the maze he becomes a runner and Minho teaches him everything he needs to know. • When Thomas is out with Minho on the job, Minho takes him to the cliff were they try to find an exit out of the maze. Eventually they start to throw rocks off the cliff and suddenly one of them disappears which they think is where the grievers disappear to during the day. They call it the Griever hole.

11. P Chapter 4-Plot- Rising Action (continued) • When Thomas is out with Minho on the job, Minho takes him to the cliff were they try to find an exit out of the maze. Eventually they start to throw rocks off the cliff and suddenly one of them disappears which they think is where the grievers disappear to during the day. They call it the Griever hole. • Teresa wakes up from her coma and she has memories that are important to finding the answer to the maze and she tries to talk to Thomas in his head to get him to come to her so she can tell him the memories. • After Teresa wakes up the sun disappears from the sky the next day and at night the walls do not shut. • Grievers come every night to where all of the gladers are staying, the homestead, and they take one kid each night. Thomas has figured out that if you line up maps of the maze they make letters for a code. • Teresa, Chuck and some other gladers try to figure out the rest of the words while Thomas and Minho are out in the maze trying to figure out the Griever hole.

12. P Chapter 4-Plot- Climax The climax is the part of the story which is like the big moment in the story where everything just comes together. • Teresa and Chuck find out the rest of the words from the maze maps. Thomas, Minho, Newt and Alby decide to go through the griever hole to get out of the maze. Some of the gladers there do not want to take the risk because they think that it is suicide. • Thomas leads the gladers to the cliff but they are not alone. There were lots of grievers there to give them a little goodbye. Eventually Thomas, Chuck, Teresa, Newt and Minho get through the grievers but the rest of the gladers are still fighting. Thomas, Teresa and Chuck go through the hole first and Minho stays behind to make sure no grievers come after them. • Thomas enters the words into a computer to shut the grievers down. After he does Minho jumps through the hole and they make their way through the tunnel. • They get to the end of the tunnel where the creators greet them but Gally is with them. The creator pulls out a throwing knife and throws it at Thomas but just then Chuck jumped in front of the knife and takes his life for Thomas’.

13. P Chapter 4-Plot-Falling Action • The falling action is what happens after the climax. • People come bursting through the door of the laboratory and tells the creator to get down and step away from the kids. The people who busted through the door tell the kids to follow them out of the lab and outside there is a lady who is saying to help them from the flare. The guy told them not to listen and they got on the bus. Everybody is happy that they are out of the maze but no one knows what will happen next.

14. M Chapter 5-Mood This for me is a rather good replica of the metallic rod coming out of the griever. http://www.thetechgame.com/Forums/p=15209473.html Moodisthe felling a reader gets when reading the book. In this story the mood changes various times. The first example of this is at page 343 : “A skinny metallic rod burst out of the Grievers moist skin, unfolding into a long appendage with three spinning blades, which moved directly toward Thomas’s face.”(Dashner343) When I read this I feel fear for Thomas because his life is in danger.

15. S Chapter 5- Mood (continued) This is a good representation of what Griever might look like. http://mazerunner.wikia.com/wiki/Grievers Another example of mood is: “"It looked like an experiment gone terribly wrong-something from a nightmare. Part animal, part machine, the Griever rolled and clicked along the stone pathway. Its body resembled a gigantic slug, sparsely covered in hair and glistening with slime."(Dashner126)The mood is that there is a lot of suspense.

16. The closing doors represent when Thomas walks in as they close to save Alby and Minho. http://www.holyrosarycatholicschool.org/hrs/7th%20Classroom/Web%20Pages%202010/jessicar%20web%20page.htm S Chapter 5- Mood (continued) "Thomas knew he had no choice. He moved. Forward. He squeezed past the connecting rods at the last second and stepped into the maze. The walls slammed shut behind him, the echo of its boom bouncing off the ivy-covered stone like mad laughter."(Dashner112) We picked this part because we thought it very intriguing and it was scary as well.

17. T R Chapter 6- Theme and Resolution This is an example of a lab that looks like the one of the creators. antarctica.gov.au The theme is the moral or the lesson of the story. The theme of the story is always be brave, never give up. An example of this theme is when Thomas gets out in the maze to save Minho and Alby. A quote from the book to prove this is: "Thomas knew he had no choice. He moved. Forward. He squeezed past the connecting rods at the last second and stepped into the maze. The walls slammed shut behind him, the echo of its boom bouncing off the ivy-covered stone like mad laughter."(Dashner112) Another example is when Chuck jumps in the way of the blade to save Thomas. This is an act of bravery. The Gladers get out of the maze and the creators are revealed but they are not good people. They also learn about the Flare.