A Great Summer

Summary

This summer I had to read and blog about The Maze Runner by James Dashner. This story started when a teen named Thomas arrived to an estrange place, he only remember his name. This strange place was called the Glade; it was a big courtyard surrounded by big walls that had four Stone doors, in the other side of the walls there was an enormous maze. There were many people in the glade, only man and they only knew their names, Alby and Newt were in charge and Chuck become Thomas´ best friend. The next day from his arrival Alby explained Thomas how everything worked in the Glade and the dangers that existed, he showed Thomas a mix of animal and machine creature the size of a cow with a saw blade, rods and a set of shears. In the middle of the trip something strange happened, someone new arrive to the Glade, it was a girl, she arrived just the next day that Thomas did, and she carried a massage: “She´s the last one. Ever.” (Dashner 57). In the afternoon Thomas decided to explore and a person who he had seen sick the last day attack him, for his luck Alby helped him.

Interesting Thought Throughout The Book

“A twisted, pale figure writhing in agony, chest bare and hideous. Tight, rigid cords of sickly green veins webbed across the boy’s body and limbs, like ropes under his skin. Purplish bruises covered the kid, red hives, bloody scratches.” (Dashner 20).

I cannot imagine being in Thomas place, to fell alone, to have no answers, to be scared and now he sees a sick person and imagining what could happened to him. If I see a person like that, I will not sleep for days in a place like that. I do not know how Thomas could had the guts to sleep that firs night.

“‘He is not one of us!’ Ben Shouted. ‘I saw him-he´s…he’s bad. We have to kill him! Let me gut him!’” (Dashner 72)

When Ben shouts this to Alby trying to kill Thomas, I was surprises: How is it possible that the man who was sick in bed the last day can be recovered? And a man that have no memories at all can say that Thomas is a bad guy? I really like this secrets and suspense that the author is adding; it makes me wanting to read more and more.

Final Ideas and Conclusions

I am definitely going to have a great summer reading this book. I have to admit that I has a hard time at the beginning of this book understanding the characters but when I figure it out, I found this story interesting and addicting. After reading a bunch of books that had not being good this is finally a great beginning of story. I really like the suspense that the story has explanations that are not at the beginning so that the audience can make predictions. I am sure that this next part of the story will not him long because of the interesting the story is.