Suspense In James Dashner's The Maze Runner
While you were looking at around at the library for something to read, something seems to catch your eye. The novel is The Maze Runner by James Dashner and he focuses on the setting and mood to tell the story. It centers around a eerie post apocalyptic setting called the Glade with a large expansive ivy covered stone maze surrounding it. Also the characters encounter various scenerios of which it is eerie, adventurous and mysterious. Mood and setting is conveyed through the use of an eerie, adventurous and mysterious atmosphere with scary and strange situations that the characters are placed in along with the use of various writing techniques to add suspense.
First off, one of the ways that the author sets the mood is by having it take place …show more content…
It contains a computer and the maze exit. The Glade is a respectable living space with plenty of shelter, food and water and is also where the Gladers live. It is several times the size of a football field and houses a garden for growing crops and food, a Blood House where cattle is raised and slaughtered, the Box where supplies and survivors are dropped every 2-6 weeks and a Homestead which is where they spend their majority of their time living and houses mapping rooms, a concealed weapons room and a prison-like Slammer for rule breakers. The Glade has rules of which every Glader has to follow as they will either get sent to the Slammer for minor infractions or exiled for not following them while at the same time everyone's assigned a specific job and is required to do it with exceptions being lunch hours. Therefore by having it take place in a post apocalyptic with a Maze surrounding the Glade it will allow for some eerie and intriguing moments as the characters work cooperatively to discover the meaning behind the …show more content…
In addition the foreshadowing is used to hint future events occurring later in the story. For instance: when Teresa arrives in the Box and hints that things are going to change, it hints to the part where Thomas deliberately gets attacked by a
First off, one of the ways that the author sets the mood is by having it take place …show more content…
It contains a computer and the maze exit. The Glade is a respectable living space with plenty of shelter, food and water and is also where the Gladers live. It is several times the size of a football field and houses a garden for growing crops and food, a Blood House where cattle is raised and slaughtered, the Box where supplies and survivors are dropped every 2-6 weeks and a Homestead which is where they spend their majority of their time living and houses mapping rooms, a concealed weapons room and a prison-like Slammer for rule breakers. The Glade has rules of which every Glader has to follow as they will either get sent to the Slammer for minor infractions or exiled for not following them while at the same time everyone's assigned a specific job and is required to do it with exceptions being lunch hours. Therefore by having it take place in a post apocalyptic with a Maze surrounding the Glade it will allow for some eerie and intriguing moments as the characters work cooperatively to discover the meaning behind the …show more content…
In addition the foreshadowing is used to hint future events occurring later in the story. For instance: when Teresa arrives in the Box and hints that things are going to change, it hints to the part where Thomas deliberately gets attacked by a