The Maze Runner: Reading Response 1

This book starts out with Thomas being trapped in this elevator. He doesn't remember how he got there, or why he's there. The elevator/box delivered him to this room where a bunch of boys were at. They all stared and made fun of him for being the new "Newbie". This freaked Thomas out more because he felt like he recognized some of the boys, although he'd never seen any of them before in his life.

 

 All of the boys were teenagers and their leaders Alby and Newt introduced themselves to Thomas. Thomas kept asking bunches of questions about "The Glade" which is where he has supposedly arrived at. The boys kept laughing because Thomas was freaking out, he couldn't remember his past at all and somehow he ended up in this foreign place with a bunch of strangers (or so he thinks they are strangers).

 

Thomas's guide is this little kid named Chuck. Whenever they are walking back to their room they both hear a scream and Chuck says something about Benny being taken. Of course Thomas has no idea what any of them are saying half of the time. He keeps questioning what that means, and Chuck mentions that a beetle blade got Benny but doesn't describe what that is. He keeps questioning things further and further until Thomas walks up to the building he hears the screaming from and goes inside.

 

 He meets Gally who says he is the actual leader of The Glade and argues with him about wanting to see this kid. Gally gets mad and tells him to go see Ben even though Newbies aren't allowed to see "the changing". Whenever he sees Ben he almost throws up, Ben is covered in green and his veins are all green as well, like something got inside of him. He gets thrown out of the room and leaves the house that all of them were in and meets back up with Chuck. It was then he realized that at each edge of The Glade there are big openings with closing doors at night. And beyond those openings are tons of walls and pathways. Thomas was trapped inside of a maze.

 

The photo below shows a poster of the movie, but it also demonstrates what the entrance of the maze looks like.