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There is a kid named Thomas who wakes up in an elevator, with no memory of his other than the fact that his name is thomas. When the elevator opens he is pulled into a glade by a bunch of teenagers who shared a lot of similarities like having a strange vocabulary that Thomas was not familiar with and seemed to have the same fate as Thomas.
The glade was an area where it never rains and is surrounded by walls with doors that opens and closes every night and behind those doors is a giant Maze filled with man hunting creatures that are called grievers.
The glade seemed to be run by two boys, Alby and Newt, who maintain order by enforcing strict rules, and have everyone put into different tasks, like people that clean everything, people that slaughter
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Thomas kept his plan to get stung by the grievers a secret for quite a long time, and once he purposely got stung by a griever everyone was mad at him but he had enough memories to lead everyone out of the maze. But with the information Thomas had gotten he knew the maze was never meant to be solved but there was a way out, they had to go into the griever hole punch in the code and then deal with the creators(the people that put them inside the maze). When Thomas woke up from the changing he immediately called for a group meeting, and tried to convince as many people to help him complete the maze. Many people agreed to go, but many also stayed, but once they completed the maze the found gally(a person from the glade) there who was being controlled by the creators, and was about to kill thomas, but that’s when Chuck jumped and put his life on the line and saved thomas. And then the rest of the people were escorted outside and transported to some other

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