1. As you were reading, what other texts were you reminded of? Be specific in you comparisons. • As I was reading the book the Maze Runner I was frequently reminded of the Giver. In both books the time is sometime in the future and is in a community separate from the rest of the world. Both communities have their own way of functioning separate from the rest of the world. In both stories there is one main character, in the Giver Jonas, and in the Maze Runner, Thomas, who help change the norm of the society. In both stories there were a specific group of people assigned to govern the community and the people (Elders and the Keepers). In both the Giver and the Maze Runner our interests assign different jobs and everyone does their job so the society can function properly. The Giver seems tried to be a Utopian Society while The Maze Runner is the complete opposite and is a Dystopian Society. In the Giver there are no endangerment or threatening situations while in the Glade there is danger everywhere around you. The reasons why I believe that the Giver and Maze Runner are similar are because they are both separate societies that function differently and are isolated from the rest of the world and have their own way of functioning. • Another book that comes to you mind when you read the Maze runner is the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games and the Maze Runner are both dystopian societies and there are no adult characters to guide them, but instead they have to create their own way of governing the society and have to create the order of people. In both books the main character had to oppose not just a single character as an antagonist but an entire system or society. In the Maze Runner the Antagonist was the group of people that crea... ... middle of paper ... ...only way of finding out if they reach home is by reading the next book. I feel that the next book is going to be just as great but just wished, they could have added a little more to the ending. ➢ I believe James Dashner did an extraordinary job in writing the story, the Maze Runner. The way the kids escaped is truly remarkable. It seemed earlier there would simply by a door behind the ivy and they would easily exit the maze. But the variables thrown towards the Gladers just added twist to the story and created more action and suspense. All the events from the beginning of the story to the end all fell in one place and connected with each other in solving the maze. The way the maps all formed a letter, which formed a code, to be entered into a computer was extraordinary. I really enjoyed the way how the Gladers escaped the Maze and can’t wait to read the next book.
The Glade represents the lack of freedom. The Glade was where the Gladers were forced to live. This symbol holds their childhood, since they were sent up to the Glade when they were very young and no one has found the exit. Either, they died while finding the exit, or they survived, but lived the Glader life for the rest of their life.
People do not have to fly to be hero, it takes much more. Many heroes of today are shown to have supernatural powers that makes them acquire amazing abilities, flying, super strength, skills to manifest anything, the list goes on. Our heroes in the present time are perceived by the audiences' mindset to have special powers but there are times where being a hero does not need to have all the extra tricks. Thomas, a character in The Maze Runner is thrown unconsciously with no memory into a place of the unknown called the Glades, consisting of only teenagers inhabiting the area. He would soon find out the whole place is bordered by a big wall that closes by night and day to protect them from the maze that are filled with demonic machines that will kill on sight. This begins his adventure, eager to learn what is out there and willing to become a maze runner which is equivalent to being a tribute for the greater good in their little homemade society. Having powers might help to become a hero, but in the dystopian novel The Maze Runner, by James Dashner, his protagonist Thomas demonstrates the hero journey in a more natural way by crossing the threshold, meeting a mentor, and lastly having tests, allies and enemies.
However, not much is needed to be able to analyze these writings, as they contain so much important content. All of the parts just described share similar content, not only do they all have a creation story, but the characters are all very similar.
I have always loved to read. While most children prefer watching television, I would rather read a book. About two years ago I read the book The Maze Runner, by James Dashner. After reading this book, I realized just how much Christ effects literature. I learned that we can see aspects of Christ in books written by secular authors. You can find Christian allegories that the author didn’t even realize they were writing.
Hey you, Yeah… YOU! Would you want to live in a society where you live in a box for your entire life, and mean absolutely nothing to the just about anyone? For science right? NOPE! Obviously, Societies fall as a result of a corrupt government, Failing Social Structure, and Sickness. It is due to these factors that many great societies such as Greece, Rome, and the society depicted in the book Maze Runner fall.
The ending of this book was a cliffhanger. In my opinion that is the worse kind of ending, but that’s how that writing persuades the reader to get the next book in the series. Without giving too much away about the end of the story, it was very unexpected. To be
In Levittown each group of houses has its own pool, baseball field, school, and a baseball club. With all of that no one would ever want to leave the enclosed space of Levittown. In The Giver it is almost the exact same because they work and then play outside and do the same things almost everyday. On page 48 in The Giver it says “How could someone not fit in? The community is so meticulously ordered, the choices are so carefully made.” The people become so accustomed to their lives of sameness that they forget what life was like
In The Maze Runner, Thomas recalls nothing of his life except for his name. He finds himself surrounded by a bunch of boys. Like all the other Gladers, Thomas appears in the Glade terrified and disoriented. However, he senses a powerful bond to the Maze. He quickly exhibits courage and confidence when he saves Alby and Minho from the Grievers after they had to spend the night in the Maze.
Even though both the society in The Giver by Lois Lowry and modern society are both unique in their own ways, our society is a better society to live in. Our society gives us more freedom to choose for our own benefits and
The novel Anthem by Ayn Rand and the movie The Hunger Games directed by Francis Lawrence and Gary Ross are popular among teens because they can relate to them by the high expectations put upon them. In a dystopian novel or movie, there is a dystopian protagonist. A dystopian protagonist is someone who often feels trapped, struggles to escape, questions existing systems, believes or feels as if something is wrong in the place they live in, and then helps the audience realize the effects of dystopian worlds. These are both good examples because it takes us on a walk through the protagonist's life and only then do we see what dystopian really is.
The Giver by Lois Lowry and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley have many similarities. They both take place in futuristic utopias where happiness is the overall goal. Jonas and Bernard, the major characters in the novels, are both restless individuals who want change. Despite the close similarities, there are many contrasts in the two novels. The childhood, family, and professions arrangements are differently portrayed in the similar novels The Giver and Brave New World.
The story in The Giver by Lois Lowry takes place in a community that is not normal. People cannot see color, it is an offense for somebody to touch others, and the community assigns people jobs and children. This unnamed community shown through Jonas’ eye, the main character in this novel, is a perfect society. There is no war, crime, and hunger. Most readers might take it for granted that the community in The Giver differs from the real society. However, there are several affinities between the society in present day and that in this fiction: estrangement of elderly people, suffering of surrogate mothers, and wanting of euthanasia.
The Maze Runner is a 2014 mystery/science fiction film that can be viewed from an archetypal perspective. An archetype can be described as a pattern that can and is copied and recurring symbols or characters. The concept of archetypes came from Carl Jung a psychiatrist who believed that all cultures use archetypes to build stories without communicating to each other about them. Two groups of archetypes are the character and symbolic archetypes. The film The Maze Runner should be analyzed through an archetypal perspective because it has character and symbolic archetypes.
The Maze Runner by James Dashner is a science fiction novel that includes action and thriller. The novel is about a sixteen year old boy named Thomas who wakes up with no memory from where he came from or who he is or what he was doing there and in a metal cage box surrounded by many teenage boys looking at him weirdly. Throughout the novel there is many science-fiction themes and characteristics displayed such as futuristic technology, alien, robot like creatures environmental and social changes also unrealistic and fictional events.
The novel The Maze Runner by James Dashner begins with a teenage boy waking up in an elevator who has no memory of the past, only that his name is Thomas. When the doors of the elevator open up he is pulled into a humongous square surrounding, called the Glade, by a group of teenage boys. The boys in the Glade refer to themselves as the ‘Gladers’. Thomas learns that the Gladers have lived in there for two years and that the Glade is located in the center of a maze which contains a labyrinth of high walls that move during the night and deadly creatures called grievers. The Glade is led by two boys, Alby and Newt; they both maintain order in the Glade by enforcing strict rules and jobs that keep the Gladers busy. A day after Thomas’ arrival an unknown girl arrives in the Glade. This shocks everyone because the Gladers only receive a new person every month, never within the same week. This also shocks everyone because she was the only girl in a maze full of boys. The girl also gives a message that everything is going to change and that she is the last one ever. Right after her message she immediately falls into a coma. The arrival of the girl causes many things to go chaotic including the sun seizing to rise, the Gladers stop receiving supplies from the creators of the maze, and the doors of the Glade that protect the Gladers from the grievers at night stop closing. When the girl, Teresa wakes up she informs Thomas that they both knew each other in the past and that the maze was a code. Thomas and the people who run around the maze to map out the labyrinth, the runners, look through the archives of the maps and find out the code. Then the leader of the runners, Minho, figures out that the cliff they thought was just a cliff was actua...