Outside The Maze: A Brief Summary

The story begins with a 13-year-old boy who wakes up in an elevator with no memory of his past other than the fact that his name is Thomas. When it the elevator doors open, he is pulled into a huge glade by a bunch of teenage boys who also have no memories besides what they should be called. Thomas gradually discovers that the Glade is run by two boys, Alby and Newt, who maintain order by enforcing strict rules and keeping all of the boys working, be it through farming, building, or cooking. Outside the Glade is the Maze, a labyrinth of high walls that contain Grievers, hideous beasts the look like mechanical spiders. The boy’s main goal is to solve the maze and escape, A day after Thomas's arrival, for the first time, a girl is delivered through the elevator into the Glade.
To make matters worse, her arrival triggers everything in the Glade to change: the sun disappears, the deliveries of supplies stop coming, and the doors stay open at night which allows the Grievers to pick kids off one-by-one. Thomas realizes that the entire maze is a code, and utilizes this code to help the Gladers escape. However, many of them are killed by Grievers in the process. Once they escape, they find out that what they've been doing is an experiment being conducted by the Creators, a group called WICKED, who may or may not be evil. The boys and Teresa then get "rescued" by some kind of rebel group and brought to a safe haven while being told about "the Flare"—an apocalyptic occurrence that killed off half of the world's population. The epilogue reveals that the "rebel group" may just be another variable in the experiment, and they weren't the only group being