The Maze Runner Reviewed by Hugo Quinlivan

The novel “The Maze Runner” by James Dashner is a science fiction thrilling, exiting and want to see more; Novel. One day Thomas wakes up in a dark swinging elevator.  He can’t remember where he is from, who his parents were and not even anything about himself.  He finds himself in a new world, known as the Glade.  Every morning he needs to walk into a death trap of a maze hoping he can get out before night falls when the doors close.  They don’t know that the next day there is a girl.  The first girl ever in the glade.

The message this novel is trying to tell us is to have faith.  Because they have to have faith in each other to face the challenges of the Glade and the winding paths of the maze.   With the help of their friends they need to work together to make it out alive.  Which symbolizes: they cannot have a problem with their trust in each other which could lead to a lack in faith and eventually they would fall apart as a community.  As you can tell trust is very important in the glade with a tight community.

This novel has a great way of telling the internal/external traits of the characters, right as their brought in to the story and as their progressing through novel he digs deeper into the internal traits of the character. The story is a well put together story with an amazing plot I could read for hours and hours and not get bored.  The theme of this novel is obviously Trust and Faith.  The main conflicts of the story are Character VS Society and Character VS Self.  The theme is easy to find when you get a couple pages into the story.  The themes are very well symbolized in a way that can relate to things maybe you’ve seen or done.  The message of the story is that there has got to be trust and faith towards each other to succeed in a community.   This is a great novel and can deliver a good message to anyone who reads it.