Chapter Summary: The Maze Runner By James Dashner

The Maze Runner By: James Dashner

Thomas is a boy that woke up and found himself alone in a dark box. He shouts and yells for help until the box opens. He looks up and sees a bunch of other boys looking back at him. He doesn't remember anything about his life and he's very confused about where he is. The leader named Alby comes over and tells him that they call this place the glade but in his sentences he says thing "Shank" "Shuck" "Keeper" "Slopper. Soon a boy named Newt comes over and is a lot nicer to him then Alby was. He explains to him that all they know is that two years ago they sent a group of boys to the glade and after that a new boy showed up every month in the box. All of the boys don't have any memory of their life before they …show more content…
Newt tells Thomas to find Chuck and that he's in charge of his sleeping arrangements. Chuck tells Thomas that Ben is in there and that he got stung by a griever. Thomas went upstairs and saw Ben and was horrified by the sight. He was pale and had blue veins popping out all over his body and his eyes were bloodshot. That's all he could see before Alby blocked his view and told him to go back downstairs. Chuck and Thomas go eat and Chuck tells him about the walls closing every night and inside the maze the walls move every night too. They both go to sleep and Thomas feels this feeling of being comfortable inside the maze and that's when he decides that he wants to be one of the people that go running into the maze everyday trying to find a way out. A runner. The next morning, Alby tells Thomas that his tour of the place is going to begin soon and during their tour they hear an alarm that means someone is coming from the box. Everyone is confused because someone only gets sent once every month, never twice in a row. They all gather around and instead of seeing a guy, they see a girl. This is the first time a girl has come every since the first group of guys was sent to the glade. First they think she's dead but she shoots up and the only thing she …show more content…
Almost everybody agrees that he shouldn't be punished because he saved someone's life and Minho says that he nominates Thomas to replace him as keeper of the runners. Everybody thinks that's a crazy idea and no one agrees, finally the meeting is ended with agreeing that Thomas will spend one day in jail and after that he'll get to be trained to become a runner. The girl finally wakes up and they put her in jail because she says that she just caused the ending. The next morning the sky is just gray with no sunlight coming out of it at all. Later that night the walls didn't close and they knew that if they didn't go hide, they'll be killed by the grievers right away. The all hide in the house but every night a griever takes just one boy and they all go back into the maze. Finally Thomas goes to talk to the girl and she says that the maze is a code. They try to figure it out but they only get words that don't form a sentence. Thomas decided that he needs to get stung by a griever so he could go through the changing and bring back a memory that will help him get everyone out of the maze. He figures out that there's a hole in the cliff and if you jump into it, it leads you to a room