Comparison Between The Maze Runner and Societies

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Imagine a world where you are stuck in an arena, several times the size of a football field, and you are with about fifty teenage boys for as long as you live. Well, lucky for you, that is the world which is The Maze Runner. Yes, The Maze Runner, by James Dashner, is a fictional society, but there are real life civilizations that fall too, such as Germany in the Nazi era, Sierra Leone, and Ancient Rome. Societies can crumble down and burn due to corrupt leaders or government, lack of crucial resources, and a diminished security.
Even though it takes many aspects for a society to fall, a very large part of the downfall is corrupt leaders, or a corrupt government. Corrupt leaders, such as Adolf Hitler, could lead to the downfall in certain communities.
In the action-packed novel, The Maze Runner, the corrupt leader isn’t “corrupt” because of certain extenses of ridicule to the people; but because the leader of the arena the story takes place in, The Glade, takes control of the civilization forcefully. This leader, Alby, gets very ill because of a attack from nature, or should I say an attack that could end their society once and for all, and loses his power due to unatural thoughts and phrases coming from him. A sustained community with a centralized government would just elect a temporary leader if they believed he would fully recover, or just vote a new leader and let the old leader recover or die. But The Glade was no ordinary government, to say the least. Since they were just a group of teenage boys(and one girl), they didn’t know how to set a government, much less how to elect a leader. They would most likely just tell Newt or Gally to lead them, even though they didn’t have a lot of experience with electing leaders bec...

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... a burnt cookie. Unless we decide to follow the path to victory, and learn from our mistakes, every ounce of hope we have in society will diminish, right under our feet. I suggest to everyone that we all take notice in what is happening to our society and learn how to fix the cracks and straighten out the creases. Don’t let your society fall, leaving all the crumbs of what’s left, and leaving the people to clean it all up.

Works Cited

Dashner, James. The Maze Runner. 1. New York: Random House, 2009. 9-247. Print.
"The Fall of Rome." Learning Site n.pag. Web. 26 Mar 2014. .
Society 4 Research Notes
Aladdin, Project. "The Holocaust: A Call To Conscience ." n.pag. Web. 26 Mar 2014. .

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