James Dashner's The Maze Runner

The Maze Runner was written by James Dashner in 2009, “he had an idea when going to bed about a bunch of teenagers living inside an unsolvable Maze full of hideous creatures, in the future, in a dark, dystopian world. It would be an experiment, to study their minds.” Thomas finds himself in a glade with no memory of who he is or how he got there. He arrives in an elevator metal box which returns every month with new food, weapons and a new boy. In the glade there are walls surrounding them with high concrete doors that close every night. Outside of these walls is a maze, each day some of the boys go through the doors and into the maze, these boys are called “Runners.” The Runners are trying to solve the maze by running as fast as they can while tracking the walls as they move each night and trying to find an exit. The maze contains
Most of the boys and Teresa decide that it would be better to be stuck in the maze then take down the Grievers after they invade the glade. Working together they find a way to escape the maze only to find that what they’ve been doing this whole time was an experiment controlled by W.I.C.K.E.D. The teenagers find themselves in a lab and meet Galley, one of the Gladers who hated Thomas for being different and who originally didn’t escape with them. Galley is acting as though he is being controlled and attacks Thomas by throwing a knife at him but Chuck, Thomas’s friend, jumps in front of him to save him and is killed. After briefly mourning the death of Chuck, the Gladers are rescued by a group of people who explain to them “The Flare” -an occurrence that killed half of the world’s population.
I think the ending of this book was great, it ended with you wanting to read more and more. Although Dashner could have made it without Chuck dying in the endng. Overall it was a good book and I really enjoyed reading