Thomas is the narrator and protagonist of the story. He arrives in the maze with no knowledge of who he is or was. He only remembers his name and nothing else about his life. Thomas proves to be brave and clever even though he only has a very limited memory of previous knowledge of the Maze. Since arriving in the maze, Thomas makes both friends and enemies and proves to be a leader among the other boys with him in the maze. Teresa is a teenage girl who mysteriously arrives in the maze a day after Thomas. She tells everyone that everything is about to change in the maze, before slipping into a coma.
Thomas is sure that he knows Teresa from before, but can’t remember. Later, it’s revealed that she had worked with Thomas to create the maze. They become close friends over the course of the novel and Teresa helps Thomas and Chuck deactivate the Maze during their escape. She is the only female character throughout the entire book. Alby is the leader of the gladers(The group of boys living in the giant maze), and has authority over much of what goes on in the Glade(the only safe area in the maze).
He is hot-headed but experienced. Only a few Gladers, those who have been there the longest, ever see fit to question Alby’s decisions.
After being stung by a Griever(giant slug like monsters armed with weapons and made to guard the maze), Alby undergoes a Changing and becomes convinced that they should not return to the outside world. He wishes to stay in the Glade and even tries to sabotage an escape plan. Alby dies during the escape attempt by throwing himself onto a Griever. Thomas wakes up in a metal box with no memory of who he is. He only remembers his name. Dorrs open overhead and reveal a community of young boys living on a type of farm Surrounded by giant walls The place is called the Glade.
The Review on The maze runner (book report)
Protagonist Thomas is brought into a place known as the Glade, with no memories of his past life except of his name. He and other teenage boys call themselves Gladers, and have made a community in which each is assigned to a task belonging to different departments headed by a Keeper. The Glade is surrounded by a gigantic Maze in which mechanical creatures called Grievers roam at night. This book ...
Outside the Glade and beyond the walls is a massive Maze. Thomas learns that in the maze are monsters known as Grievers. Thomas meets the leader of the Glade, Alby, who shows Thomas around the maze. The day after Thomas arrives, the first ever girl is sent up into the Glade. Her name is Teresa. Teresa tells everyone that everything is about to change, then succumbs to a coma. Thomas feels a connection to her, but can’t figure out where he knows her from. Thomas then decides that he wants to be a Runner, Gladers who go out into the Maze in an attempt to map it and find a way out.
While exploring the Maze, Alby is stung by a Griever. Minho, the leader of runners, attempts to get him back into the Glade before the walls close but they are not going to make it. Thomas sees them, then races out to help and becomes trapped outside in the Maze with them. The Maze is most dangerous at night because that is when the Grivers are most active. Despite being the most experienced, Minho panics and runs away leaving Thomas and Alby. Through wits and skill, Thomas manages to save himself with alby, and survive the night in the Maze.
That made Thomas a hero and from that, Minho convinces the other Gladers to allow Thomas to become a Runner trainee. Thomas then begins training under Minho. He learns how the Runners map the Maze, looking for patterns to the maze every day. Thomas also visits Teresa who is still comatose. She begins to communicate with him telepathically and tells Thomas that she has triggered the end. The next day the sun has disappeared from the sky, replaced with a dull gray sky. Thomas realizes that the Glade is a fabricated place and that the sky was never real.
Teresa tells Thomas that the Maze is a code before she awakens and forgets everything. The Gladers then realize the entrances to the maze no longer close during the night, allowing the Grievers to roam the Glade during the night the grievers come every night and take a Glader With them. Thomas determines a new way to analyze the map information. With Teresa’s help, they find a series of letters hidden in the maps, spelling out words. Without knowing what to do with the code, the Gladers began to lose hope, but in an act of desperation, Thomas allows himself to be stung by the Grievers to recover memories through the Changing.
The Essay on Maze Runner Character Changes
... by stone walls. Just like Thomas, the Gladers don’t know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that ... work together. Minho and Thomas out their skills together and outlast the Grievers (deadly creatures that roam the Maze during the night) saving ... that he be a little confused. In the beginning, before Teresa arrives, he is mostly in shock of what is happening ...
Thomas learns the way out of the Maze and makes a plan to escape. Thomas gathers the Gladers and leads them into the Maze where they face off against a small army of Grievers. About half of the Gladers die in the fight but Thomas and Teresa make their way down the hole in the Cliff and are able to punch in the code and shut down the Maze. Over the past few weeks I read Maze Runner by James Dashner and copyrighted in 2009 and thought it was amazing. It was one of the best books I’ve read because of the way the plot was set up.
i truly enjoyed the story because of the constant feeling of danger throughout the book. It’s interesting that Thomas, the leader, worked with Teresa and the creators to make the very maze he is trying to escape from. As I read the end of this book I kept thinking about the phrase,”Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong” and how all the Gladers thought the answer was the maze but it was actually something entirely different. From the book, I learned that sometimes, the answer to a problem isn’t always the absolute right or wrong answer, just better or worse.
