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The Maze Runner: Science Fiction Genre
The Maze runner is the world apocalypse of a science fiction genre because the world was taken over by the flare, the sun, the grievers and the people with lots of power. The grievers were half gloopy spiders and half machine creatures, The Flare was a virus that killed the people in the world, it was a man-made disease that slowly ate the brain and turned victims into insane humans, so ‘the creators’ who were more powerful than the others that were mostly teenagers, set them up into a game as their experiment. Therefore, the creators, who weren’t immune to the virus, could find out a cure to it by observing how the teenager’s brains resisted the virus, since they were immune to it. The sun also killed most of the people because of the heat, leading to global warming. …show more content…
This is not real in the actual world, but scientists have studied, investigated and researched and they’ve discovered there could be a possibility of a zombie apocalypse. This cause hasn’t yet happened in the actual world, but since scientists have proven its true this leads to concerns to our current society and in the

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