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Parallel Elements In 'The Maze Runner'
The maze runner Friendship,Persistence,Death
James Dashner,effectivily uses slang words as a technique realism,suspence in the Maze Runner book.
¨If you ain´t scared you ain´t human.¨This would not be realistic that I would hear because when they´re scarred do you think they would say that you ain´t human,in the year we live in now would you think that we would say ain´t we would say are not.Slang helps the narrator by making the story alive.And if there was no slang in the story it simply would not be interesting. The bad words that we use today are almost the same they use in the Maze Runners´ book because the beginning of the words are the same thing as the word poop

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