The Maze Runner

The Maze Runner takes place in the "Glade" were all the boys live surrounded by a seemingly escapeless maze. Inside the maze lurks the Grievers, vicious half monster half machine creatures, who come out every night and sometimes during the day in the maze. The runners go out every day risking their lives trying to find a way out. Throughout the book Thomas, the main character, feels drawn to the task of the runners feeling that it is his duty to be a runner. Time passes by as Thomas learns the ropes of the Glade but then a strange event happens. A girl shows up in the box. The first girl ever in the Glade, Teresa, and came with a note that reads. That she and the supplies that came with her are the last they are going to receive.

After proving himself by going into the maze to save Alby, the leader of the boys, and Minho, the keeper of the runners, Thomas earns himself a spot as a runner and goes out with Minho every day risking his life. The two of them try very hard everyday until suddenly one day they see a Griever and follow it. The Griever oddly leads them to the Cliff, a steep drop-off leading to an almost endless fall and eventually death, and then without warning jumps off the Cliff. Minho and Thomas rush to the Cliff and discover somehow the Griever has disappeared. After throwing rocks of the Cliff they figure out there is a portal at the end of the Cliff.

Time passes and there is seemingly no way out of the maze still. They try using the maze patterns and create several words out of them but have no idea what they are for. Then one morning the Gladers wake up and the sun never came up and the doors to the maze aren't closing meaning they can be attacked at any moment by the Grievers. Scared and confused the Gladers devise a plan to all pack up in the Homestead like sitting ducks. Every night as if it is a test a Griever comes every night and takes one of the boys to meet there painful fearsome death. Thomas decides that he cant sit any longer and he decides to get stung by a Griever to go through the changing where many go through a painful process that unveils some elements and clues to there past.

The painful process of the Changing unveils a way out for Thomas and the Gladers to go through the "Griever Hole" at the Cliff and shut down the maze. When they leave the Glade to do this they are met with a wall of Grievers protecting the "Griever Hole". The Gladers powerfully and bravely fight through the wall so that Thomas, Teresa, and Chuck, Thomas best friend, can make it into the hole. After suffering heavy loses of Gladers they defeat the Grievers and shut down the maze. Also they find a door seemingly leading to what is beyond the life of the maze a world the Gladers do not remember but there is one thing on there mind. Punish the Creators.