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Is there a cure in Maze Runner books?

The Death Cure – Teresa with the cure in Maze Runner: The Death Cure In The Death Cure, WICKED tries to cut out Thomas ‘ brain as they believe that by studying its tissue, and how its physical makeup allowes it to resist the Flare virus’s power, they would be rewarded with the cure. By the end of the books, no cure for the Flare is found yet. Teresa’s discovery: Thomas’s blood (indicated by blue patterns) is destroying the Flare inside the dark-red veins. In the film, however, Teresa uses a small fragment of Thomas’s blood and examines it under a microscope. She observes the blood snapping a dark-red vein with the virus in it in half and thus killing it.

What’s on page 250 of Maze Runner?

Newt Day is a holiday celebrated by Maze Runner fans on the 250th day of the year, because Newt’s death was on page 250 (The Death Cure).

How many pages is The Death Cure book?

Product information

Publisher	‎Delacorte Press; Later Printing edition (January 8, 2013)
Language	‎English
Paperback	‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10	‎0385738781
ISBN-13	‎978-0385738781

What is Newt’s real name Maze Runner?

Newts real name | Fandom Do any of y’all know what newts real name is in the books? Ive looked it up everywhere but they j say “Thomas Brodie-Sangster” Do the books ever say his real name? I feel like they did but I forgot.I remember Thomas’s real name but not newts😅 2 JD never said that as he confirms in a tweet.

• He said he does not think of Newt in another name, so I think we will never know his real name unless something I tbh dk happens? 0 I think it wasn’t said in the books.
• Tbh I actually prefer it.
• I decided to always call Sonya “Lizzie” or “Elizabeth” cuz it just seems right,
• I don want a horrid decision like that again,(cuz it was so shucking hard) 1 I’m still calling Thomas “Thomas” but it seems weird-ish after reading tfc and knowing how he got his name.2 Newt’s name before WICKED was Sam.

WICKED changed his name to Newton “Newt” Isaacs.1 Newt’s real name was never mentioned. James Dashner confirmed that it wasn’t Sam. In the Fever Code it was mentioned that Newt still remembered his sister’s real name (Lizzie) while he forgot his own real name.

Also I wouldn’t really want to know him by any other name except Newt.0 Idk where I read it was Sam, im not sure 0 Yeah Dangerbuff linked the tweet, it wasn’t Sam and I scoured the fever code for it but I couldn’t find it. I’ve read all the books except TKO and TCP and Newt’s real name wasn’t mentioned anywhere.

I don’t think his last name was mentioned anywhere either. After Thomas’s real name was revealed as Stephen, it boggles my mind to think what hed be called if he ever got his memories back. I think changing their names again would be too hard on the characters who’ve lived a life of such instability and uncertainty.

Does Maze Runner have a 4th book?

The Kill Order is the fourth book released in the series, on August 14, 2012. It is the first novel in narrative order, set prior to the events of The Fever Code and 13 years before the events in The Maze Runner. It is followed in narrative order by The Fever Code.

Are there 11 Maze Runner books?

Are there 5 or 6 Maze Runner books? – The Maze Runner series complete collection boxed set consists of 5 books: The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials, The Death Cure, The Kill Order, and The Fever Code, There’s an additional novella called Crank Palace and a companion book titled The Maze Runner Files,

Who survived death cure?

What Happened to The Cure At The End? – The Maze Runner 3 ending explained crucial mysterious elements from the previous films, while the concepts of the Flare and the cure weren’t truly introduced until the end of The Maze Runner, Since Thomas and the rest of the Gladers were put into the Maze after having their memories wiped, they didn’t discover the purpose for the Maze until after they had escaped.

1. At the end of the first movie, Ava Paige appears on a video screen and explains to the Gladers that Earth was devastated by a solar flare, and then humankind’s already dwindling numbers were ravaged by the Flare virus.
2. The Gladers are told they’re part of an experiment looking for a cure.
3. In a later scene, Paige reveals to fellow WCKD scientists that the first phase of their experiment was a success, as the teens move into phase 2.

At the start of The Scorch Trials, Thomas and his friends are housed at a facility with survivors of other Maze experiments, but they soon learn it’s actually run by WCKD, which they believed they had escaped. When Thomas learns this, he and his friends escape and search out the Right Arm.

Along the way, they meet Brenda and Jorge, and eventually meet up with the group. Brenda is infected with the Flare virus, but one of the members of the Right Arm, a former WCKD scientist, uses an enzyme cure that fully heals Brenda. The scientist reveals to Thomas that the cure can only be harvested from an Immune’s body, not manufactured.

The scientist disagreed with Paige about how to harvest the cure and reveals that’s why she left WCKD. She’s later killed when WCKD attacks the Right Arm. When The Death Cure begins, Teresa struggled to discover a viable cure. Despite harvesting blood and enzymes from Immunes, she and Paige are only able to develop a “cure” that slows down the Flare virus.

However, after Teresa sees a healed Brenda, she has suspicions Thomas might be the solution to developing an actual viable cure. She tests his blood and proves her hypothesis, then convinces him to return in order to help her create the cure. Amid the uprising, Janson – now infected – takes the opportunity of Thomas being defenseless to force him and Teresa to create the cure.

Instead, Thomas and Teresa fight back, then Teresa helps Thomas flee with the Right Arm, sacrificing herself in the process. At the end of the film, it’s revealed Thomas did escape with a vial of the cure.

Was gally immune?

Powers –

Disease Immunity: Gally was shown to be immune to the effects of the deadly Flare virus. It was shown in the Maze Runner film that he was stung by a Griever. Six months later in the Death Cure film, he survived and became healthy from it.

How did The Death Cure book end?

Plot – After being held in solitary confinement, Thomas is eventually released by Janson (nicknamed the “Rat Man”), who is the assistant director of WICKED (World In Catastrophe Killzone Experiment Department). Janson tells the Gladers (Group A) and Group B that most of their number are immune to the Flare, but some, whose names he reads, are not immune, including Newt.

The Gladers are offered the chance to remove the mind-control chips in their heads and restore their memories but at the cost of Thomas’s ability to communicate telepathically with Teresa and Aris. Only Thomas, Minho, and Newt choose not to undergo the surgery, as they do not trust WICKED, and Thomas does not want to know who he was when he helped to create the maze.

All three of them escape from WICKED with the help of Brenda and Jorge before their chips are removed. Brenda and Jorge are revealed to be working for WICKED. Thomas initially feels betrayed, but Brenda reveals she only joined so she wouldn’t be executed and reasons Teresa may have only betrayed him because of that too.

Soon afterward, the Gladers discover that everyone who had undergone the memory restoration abandoned them. Newt gives Thomas a note and tells him to open it “when the time is right.” The five then travel to Denver to find Hans, a former WICKED researcher who can remove their mind-control chips. There, a man in a black suit directs them to an address, where Gally is waiting for them.

Gally has joined the rebel group the Right Arm and explains that WICKED is capturing every Immune that it can find to prepare another cycle of the Trials. He also reveals that in the decaying cities, many live who suffer from the Flare but take the illicit drug Bliss, which slows down the brain’s functioning and helps to relieve the pain that Cranks feel from the Flare.

• The group finds Hans, who removes Minho’s control chip.
• However, WICKED uses Thomas’s chip to force him to resist the procedure.
• Brenda, Jorge, and Minho must hold him down so that Hans can perform the surgery.
• Afterward, the group visits a café, where a security guard apprehends Thomas to sell him to bounty hunters, who will take him to WICKED.

Janson intervenes in a holographic, sends a police vehicle to rescue Thomas, and tells him that he must return to WICKED “to save Newt.” Thomas and his friends find out in a note that Newt has been taken to the Cranks. Minho convinces them to go to the Denver Crank Palace to rescue Newt, where they bribe the guards to get in.

When they meet Newt, he angrily orders them to leave, and the other Cranks chase them out. Thomas then remembers Newt’s note, reads it, and discovers that he had begged Thomas to kill him. Thomas despairs over not having read the note earlier. After returning to Denver, Thomas sees that Newt has succumbed to the Flare.

Thomas answers Newt’s pleas by shooting him in the head as an act of mercy. The group then discovers that Teresa and the other Immunes have been captured. After knocking out the guards, they discover that the guards were led by Vince, the leader of the Right Arm, who explains that they are infiltrating WICKED’s headquarters.

Inside, Thomas discovers how Janson tried to use his attempt “to save Newt” to compile data for the cure by examining the physical structure of Thomas’s brain, which would kill him. Thomas is forced to begin the deadly brain surgery but manages to plant a device that disables WICKED’s weapons, which allows the Right Arm to begin storming the facility.

Thomas wakes up to find a note from Chancellor Ava Paige, the head of WICKED, who explains there are already enough resources from the Trials to make a blueprint for the cure and so his brain is not needed after all. Paige reveals the location of the Immunes “sold” by the Right Arm to gain access to WICKED, and she gives directions to a “safe place” where Thomas should take all of them.

Thomas and his friends re-enter the Maze and find the captured Immunes. However, they learn the Right Arm intends to destroy, rather than occupy, WICKED headquarters. Explosions rock the Maze, and falling debris kills some of the Immunes who are inside. Triggered by the commotion, the Grievers come out of storage, but Teresa shows Thomas how to shut them down.

Thomas finds a back-door; which turns out to be a Flat Trans. They start herding the Immune kids through the Flat Trans but before Thomas and his friends can escape, Janson and the security guards corner them. They start a fight which ends when Thomas strangles Janson to death.

1. However, Teresa also dies from falling debris to save Thomas’s life.
2. Fleeing the building, the Immunes escape through the Flat Trans that leads to a lush paradise.
3. Minho becomes the technical leader, Brenda and Thomas start a relationship and the Immunes resolve to wait until everyone is dead so they can return to the old world.

The epilogue is narrated by Paige, She reveals that after the catastrophic solar flares, the Flare was deliberately created and released by the government as a form of population control, However, the government and WICKED found themselves unable to control the plague.

How did Gally get infected if he was immune?

Powers. Disease Immunity: Gally was shown to be immune to the effects of the deadly Flare virus. It was shown in the Maze Runner film that he was stung by a Griever. Six months later in the Death Cure film, he survived and became healthy from it.

Are the kids in Maze Runner immune?

‘Maze Runner’: 7 Things To Remember Before Heading Into ‘The Scorch Trials’ Are you a little fuzzy on the details of the last “” movie? Fear not, friends! “,” the second installment in the film series adapted from James Dashner’s bestselling books may hit theaters September 18, but that gives you plenty of time to study up. This babe, played by from MTV’s own “Teen Wolf,” is the central protagonist in our story. In addition to being an excellent runner, the 16-year-old is also smart, brave, and extremely inquisitive. He pretty much solved an entire dystopian social experiment within a few days in the first film, so apparently that’s just how he rolls? He is a member of a group of kids called Gladers. In the first film, Thomas joined a group of 50 other male teens known as “The Gladers” inside of a massive and deadly maze. (Think the Tri-Wizard Tournament maze, but on Miracle-Gro.) Don’t get too attached to that adorable gif above, though. Most of these shanks didn’t survive the first film. ? Teresa is the only girl in the group. She survived the maze, along with Thomas and a handful of others. Teresa (Kaya Scodelario) and Thomas have some sort of intense connection that we don’t yet fully understand. Also, she played Effie in British teen drama classic “Skins,” so that’s pretty cool. The dystopian future of “The Scorch Trials” totally blows. First, sun flares scorched the Earth, making much of it uninhabitable. The ice caps melted. Coastal cities disappeared under water. The Post-Flares Coalition (a.k.a., the terribly-named governmental body in charge after the scorching) decided to release a virus that would cull some of the population, making it more manageable. Though they initially couldn’t remember much beyond their own names, the Gladers soon learn that The Maze is an elaborate social experiment designed to find a cure for the virus. The kids were chosen because they are seemingly immune. The Maze was one of many tests that the Gladers will undergo so their brain chemistry can be observed and analyzed in hopes of finding a cure. We don’t know much about the entity behind the creation of The Maze, but the Gladers call them The Creators. We also know the organization behind The Maze is called W.C.K.D. As the leader, Ava Page (Patricia Clarke) recorded a video message for the Gladers upon their escape from The Maze. “The Scorch Trials” is only the second of three books in the “Maze Runner” series (if you’re not counting the two prequels). “The Scorch Trials” is followed by “The Death Cure,” so don’t go into the film expecting total resolution. Of course, that most likely means more “Maze Runner” film action for us, which is totally a good thing.

Is Thomas the cure in the books?

In the movies, no. However, in the books his blood is not the cure to the Flare, it is merely that he is the ‘prime candidate’ and that his brain has provided the best data that will be most helpful in creating a cure.

How does Maze Runner Death Cure end in the book?

Plot – After being held in solitary confinement, Thomas is eventually released by Janson (nicknamed the “Rat Man”), who is the assistant director of WICKED (World In Catastrophe Killzone Experiment Department). Janson tells the Gladers (Group A) and Group B that most of their number are immune to the Flare, but some, whose names he reads, are not immune, including Newt.

• The Gladers are offered the chance to remove the mind-control chips in their heads and restore their memories but at the cost of Thomas’s ability to communicate telepathically with Teresa and Aris.
• Only Thomas, Minho, and Newt choose not to undergo the surgery, as they do not trust WICKED, and Thomas does not want to know who he was when he helped to create the maze.

All three of them escape from WICKED with the help of Brenda and Jorge before their chips are removed. Brenda and Jorge are revealed to be working for WICKED. Thomas initially feels betrayed, but Brenda reveals she only joined so she wouldn’t be executed and reasons Teresa may have only betrayed him because of that too.

Soon afterward, the Gladers discover that everyone who had undergone the memory restoration abandoned them. Newt gives Thomas a note and tells him to open it “when the time is right.” The five then travel to Denver to find Hans, a former WICKED researcher who can remove their mind-control chips. There, a man in a black suit directs them to an address, where Gally is waiting for them.

Gally has joined the rebel group the Right Arm and explains that WICKED is capturing every Immune that it can find to prepare another cycle of the Trials. He also reveals that in the decaying cities, many live who suffer from the Flare but take the illicit drug Bliss, which slows down the brain’s functioning and helps to relieve the pain that Cranks feel from the Flare.

The group finds Hans, who removes Minho’s control chip. However, WICKED uses Thomas’s chip to force him to resist the procedure. Brenda, Jorge, and Minho must hold him down so that Hans can perform the surgery. Afterward, the group visits a café, where a security guard apprehends Thomas to sell him to bounty hunters, who will take him to WICKED.

Janson intervenes in a holographic, sends a police vehicle to rescue Thomas, and tells him that he must return to WICKED “to save Newt.” Thomas and his friends find out in a note that Newt has been taken to the Cranks. Minho convinces them to go to the Denver Crank Palace to rescue Newt, where they bribe the guards to get in.

When they meet Newt, he angrily orders them to leave, and the other Cranks chase them out. Thomas then remembers Newt’s note, reads it, and discovers that he had begged Thomas to kill him. Thomas despairs over not having read the note earlier. After returning to Denver, Thomas sees that Newt has succumbed to the Flare.

Thomas answers Newt’s pleas by shooting him in the head as an act of mercy. The group then discovers that Teresa and the other Immunes have been captured. After knocking out the guards, they discover that the guards were led by Vince, the leader of the Right Arm, who explains that they are infiltrating WICKED’s headquarters.

• Inside, Thomas discovers how Janson tried to use his attempt “to save Newt” to compile data for the cure by examining the physical structure of Thomas’s brain, which would kill him.
• Thomas is forced to begin the deadly brain surgery but manages to plant a device that disables WICKED’s weapons, which allows the Right Arm to begin storming the facility.

Thomas wakes up to find a note from Chancellor Ava Paige, the head of WICKED, who explains there are already enough resources from the Trials to make a blueprint for the cure and so his brain is not needed after all. Paige reveals the location of the Immunes “sold” by the Right Arm to gain access to WICKED, and she gives directions to a “safe place” where Thomas should take all of them.

Thomas and his friends re-enter the Maze and find the captured Immunes. However, they learn the Right Arm intends to destroy, rather than occupy, WICKED headquarters. Explosions rock the Maze, and falling debris kills some of the Immunes who are inside. Triggered by the commotion, the Grievers come out of storage, but Teresa shows Thomas how to shut them down.

Thomas finds a back-door; which turns out to be a Flat Trans. They start herding the Immune kids through the Flat Trans but before Thomas and his friends can escape, Janson and the security guards corner them. They start a fight which ends when Thomas strangles Janson to death.

However, Teresa also dies from falling debris to save Thomas’s life. Fleeing the building, the Immunes escape through the Flat Trans that leads to a lush paradise. Minho becomes the technical leader, Brenda and Thomas start a relationship and the Immunes resolve to wait until everyone is dead so they can return to the old world.

The epilogue is narrated by Paige, She reveals that after the catastrophic solar flares, the Flare was deliberately created and released by the government as a form of population control, However, the government and WICKED found themselves unable to control the plague.

How does Maze Runner end in the books?

Differences From The Book: – As I have said above, the changes in The Scorch Trials meant that this final instalment was going to be very different from the beginning. Firstly, the Gladers are all told in The Scorch Trials book that they are infected and are sent out into The Scorch to search for the cure.

The Scorch Trial film ends with the Gladers already working with TRA, when Minho is captured by WCKD during their ambush of TRA’s camp. With only Thomas, Newt, and Frypan surviving from Group A, Thomas convinces them that their next step should be to infiltrate WCKD to rescue Minho and terminate Ava. And that’s where The Death Cure film follows on from, as they ambush a train owned by WCKD to rescue Minho and the others Immunes onboard. The Scorch Trial book, however, ends with Thomas being separated from his friends after trying to find the cure, when he is imprisoned in a white room. The Death Cure book picks up from this when, 26 days later, Thomas is finally freed. In the book, each of the remaining Gladers have been separately imprisoned in a room as Phase 3 of their trials (with Phase 2 being their journey through The Scorch). The film doesn’t go into detail about any further phases after the maze, and they don’t find themselves back under the control of WCKD since they aren’t recaptured at the end of The Scorch Trials, In the film, it is only Minho who has been captured. In the film, Thomas and TRA are hiding out at some kind of old port that is full of shipwrecks. This location isn’t in the book. In the book, Janson tells Thomas that he still has the Flare (although he was promised a cure at the end of Book 2) but that his test is almost complete. He later confirms that Thomas is immune. In the film, the Gladers aren’t told that they have the Flare or made to find the cure, and Thomas confirms what we already assumed, that they are all immune. In the book, Janson tells Thomas all about how they are analyzing their brain patterns to make a blueprint to find a cure for the Flare. In the film, we see WCKD put Minho through a series of tests and them making a serum from his brain patterns. It is kind of explained, but not as well as it is in the book. In the film, Minho sees the Maze and a Griever attacks him in his visions. Since he hasn’t been taken by WCKD in the book, these visions don’t happen. In the book, Thomas is reunited with the other Gladers and is told that WCKD are going to remove “The Swipe”, which will give them their memories back. There is no mention of this in the film and nobody appears to miss their memories. Removing The Swipe also means that Thomas will lose his telepathic communication with Teresa, but they didn’t do this any of the films. Teresa only has a small role in the book but she keeps emphasising the WCKD is good. In the film, she is working for WCKD after betraying everybody at the end of the second film. In the film, we see Teresa working a lot with Ava Paige. In the book, we don’t see Ava. She is present in the end, but there are no interactions with her. In the book, Newt begins getting angry with Janson which is when we first see start to see that something is wrong with him. We then find out that he is one of the few who isn’t immune to the Flare. In the film, he figures this out by himself since he has a black rash all up his arm. He first gets angry with Thomas and then finally tells him that he is infected. In the book, Newt gives Thomas a note and tells him to read it “when the time is right.” In the film, it isn’t until Newt dies when he gives Thomas a pendant that he later realises has a note hidden inside of it. In the book, this is the first time that Janson tells the Gladers his name, as they just refer to him as Rat Man before this. In the film, he is only known as Janson. In the book, Thomas has many more flashbacks to his past. He dreams of playing with his mother and father and finding out how his mother reluctantly gave him to WCKD to help the world to find a cure. None of this is explained in the film and we don’t know anything about his parents. In the book, Brenda is working for WCKD and helps Thomas to escape. In the film, it is not mentioned that Brenda and Jorge were actually working for WCKD. In the book, Brenda tells Thomas that she is immune and that she was only acting in The Scorch. In the film, Brenda didn’t work for WCKD so she, therefore, still has the Flare. Jorge even looks at her bite and asks how she’s doing. The whole first 20 chapters of the book take place in WCKD’s headquarters, as Thomas, Minho, Newt and Brenda fight off guards and try to find their way to Jorge to escape on a Berg. The rest of the test subjects (including Frypan and Teresa) have escaped on another Berg and have already taken out half of the guards for them. In the film, they haven’t been captured by WCKD so none of this happens. Instead, Thomas, Newt and Frypan sneak away from The Right Arm to go and find Minho, but Brenda and Jorge save them from a Crank attack shortly after and join them on their journey. We only get a small glimpse of the Launchers in the film, but the electric grenade type weapons are used often in the book and hit Brenda and Thomas before their escape. In the book, Jorge is a pilot for WCKD so he knows how to steal a Berg. In the film, they somehow have one of their own. Jorge isn’t a pilot, but he still knows how to fly it. After all of this fighting in the book, Thomas, Minho, Newt, Brenda and Jorge escape WCKD on a Berg and head to Denver. In the film, the group go to The Last City in a jeep. In the film, Brenda says that there aren’t any cities left standing. In the book, it is Brenda and Jorge who know about Denver. In the book, WCKD’s headquarters are far away from the city. Janson tells Thomas that WCKD won’t go there because it’s overrun with The Flare. In the film, their headquarters are in the heart of the city. In the book, Brenda tells Thomas about her family. We don’t have such a close relationship with her in the film. In the film, Ava is refusing entry into the city because the infection rates are so high. There are slums outside the walls and guards with huge weapons shoot anybody that tries to get inside. In the book, there is no wall. There is security, but it’s not as high. Instead, the group drive to an airport and use fake IDs to get inside. In the film, Janson tries to shoot at Thomas. He doesn’t want him dead in the book. In the book, the group are scanned upon arrival to see if they are Immune, and Newt has to hide onboard and stay behind. In the film, the group sneak into the city through the sewers and are never scanned. In the film, Gally is part of a rebellion group that is separate from The Right Arm. In the book, Gally is a part of The Right Arm; this is the first time we meet them and this is the only rebellion group involved. In the book, somebody gives Thomas a note which is from Gally that says where they can go to meet him. In the film, the masked group kidnap Thomas and his friends. In the book, Gally’s note says that the end of the world is upon them. The film doesn’t seem so drastic or apocalyptic. More is detailed in the book about what happened to Gally after the Maze. Since Brenda worked for WCKD, she knows that he was used by WCKD to kill Chuck. Gally also explains that he faked going crazy afterwards so that they would send him away. In the film, none of this explained; Gally just skips over the questions. In the book, Gally explains to the group about the Immunes going missing. This isn’t really explained in the film. Instead, the group are rescuing the test subjects who were stolen along with Minho at the beginning. It is implied that they are all Immune, although not everyone is in the book. In the film, Teresa tries the serum on a patient but it doesn’t work. This isn’t in the book since Teresa doesn’t work for WCKD, and there isn’t a potential serum that is tested. Minho then attacks Teresa in the film. He doesn’t attack her in the book, but he definitely doesn’t like her. In the film, Thomas kidnaps Teresa so that she can help them to get inside WCKD. She removes his chip. In the book, the group plan to see a man named Hans who used to work for WCKD, in hope that he can remove their chips. In the film, Teresa is curious as to why it is taking the disease so long to take its full effect on Brenda. In the book, Brenda is immune and only pretending to have the Flare. When Hans removes Thomas’ chip in the book, WCKD take over Thomas’ body and try to get him to attack the group. They manage to restrain him. He also finally tells them all about his memory flashbacks, but he doesn’t have as many of these in the film and they aren’t explained in any detail. In the book, Thomas sees The Purge in his dreams. This is when the original creators of the trials had to all be killed because they had the Flare. This isn’t explained in the film, although there were some visions of it in The Maze Runner. In the book, the group travel in a taxi to see Gally and stay overnight in a motel. They don’t stay inside the city in the film, they only sneak in and then hide out with the rebellion group outside the walls. We see much more of the city in the book, as the group go to a mall and a coffee shop. We only really see inside WCKD in the film, nowhere that reflects the old world. In the coffee shop in the book, Thomas sees a man on a drug called Bliss which numbs the effects of the Flare. This isn’t discussed in the film. In the book, Thomas is captured by a man in the coffee shop who tries to take him away, but the man is shot dead by a vehicle. A hologram of Janson appears telling Thomas that they need him to return as he is the Final Candidate. This doesn’t happen in the film. Janson doesn’t communicate with Thomas until they sneak into WCKD. In the book, we still think that Janson could be a good guy, despite the Gladers dislike of him. In the film, he is a baddy from the beginning and his motives seem much more obvious. In the book, Newt leaves a note saying that he has gone to live with the Cranks. The group travel to Crank Palace to find him, where they pay some guards to help them out. Newt seems too far gone so they leave him there. They then get attacked by a crowd. None of this is in the film and there is no Crank Palace. We only see Cranks that have completely gone to the disease, whereas that’s not always the case in the book. In the book, this is where Thomas reads the note from Newt. It says that if he was ever Newt’s friends, then Thomas would kill him. Thomas doesn’t read the note until the final scene in the film, and the note is much more sentimental, looking back on their time together. In the film, Ava admits that she has lost and that the disease is airborne and is going to take over the city. In the book, Ava announces a state of emergency. When the group get back to the city, they are captured. Here, they are reunited with everyone (including Frypan and Teresa). In the book, Minho steals a Launcher and forces his captors to take Thomas and Brenda to their boss. A man called Lawrence drives them to see Vince. In the film, Lawrence is the leader of Gally’s rebellion group, whilst Vince is the leader of TRA. Since TRA and the rebellion group are the same in the book, Vince is the only leader so the film has made Lawrence’s role much bigger. In the book, Vince explains that TRA has been stealing Immunes to mimic WCKD so that they can get inside their headquarters. In the film, they use Teresa to get inside. In the book, Thomas and Lawrence are attacked by Cranks as they are driving. In the film, it is Thomas, Newt, and Frypan who are attacked by Cranks whilst in the Jeep much earlier on. The scenes feel very similar although they are completely different. In the book, Thomas sees Newt on his way to WCKD. They fight, and Thomas kills him, just as Newt asked. In the film, Newt has been with them the whole time but only starts to turn into a Crank after they have escaped from WCKD with Minho. Newt kills himself during a fight with Thomas. In the book, Newt explains to Thomas that he had a limp because he tried to kill himself in the Maze. Newt doesn’t have a limp in the film so we don’t learn this about him. In the book, Thomas goes to WCKD on his own so that he can plant a device that will render their weapons useless, and TRA plans to turn up afterwards. In the film, they use Teresa to get inside WCKD. Brenda and Gally go to find the Immunes whilst Thomas and Newt rescue Minho. Thomas then goes back inside WCKD on his own after Teresa talks to him over an intercom. In the film, Teresa tells Thomas how his blood is the cure for the Flare and takes some more samples from him. In the book, Teresa isn’t involved in any of this; it is Janson who tells Thomas that they need his brain to make the cure. In both the book and the film, TRA attack WCKD. In the film, Lawrence sacrifices himself to let the infected into the city and burn it down. In the book, they just destroy the headquarters; we don’t know what happens to Denver. In the book, Thomas is sedated and awakes to find a note and a map from Ava, showing him where the Immunes are hidden. In the film, he is restrained by Janson whilst Teresa takes a sample of his blood, but Teresa turns on him and attacks him so that Thomas can escape. In the book, the Immunes are hidden in the Maze. In the film, they easily find the Immunes inside the building. Brenda escorts them out of the building and onto a bus. In the film, Thomas confronts Ava but she is killed by Janson. We don’t know her fate in the book, but she helps Thomas out a lot more. In the book, Thomas is reunited with all of the surviving Gladers, including Teresa, Minho, Gally, Frypan, and Aris, and they all go into the Maze together. They have to fight some Grievers and escape the Maze before the walls collapse on them. None of this is in the film which is a huge disappointment. We see some of the Maze and the Grievers in Minho’s visions at the beginning, but it’s not the same. In the film, Teresa and Thomas simply have to make it out of WCKD alive. In the film, Janson is killed by Cranks. In the book, Thomas strangles him to death. In the film, Teresa helps Thomas board a Berg and dies when the building collapses at her feet. In the book, a piece of the ceiling is about to fall on Thomas but she pushes him out of the way and is killed instead. Either way, she sacrifices herself for him. In the film, Thomas kisses Teresa. In the book, he kisses Brenda for the first time once they reach the Safe Haven. In the film, Thomas has been severely injured. He hasn’t been in the book. In the film, the group reunites with TRA and escape to a safe haven. In the book, they leave TRA behind and only the Immunes are transported to the Safe Haven via a Flat Trans inside WCKD. The book ends with an epilogue explaining that Ava worked with Brenda and Jorge to create the Safe Haven to save the Immunes so that they could start afresh. WCKD IS GOOD! This isn’t explained in the film. We don’t see any of the good sides of WCKD.

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The Maze Runner by James Dashner has been reviewed by Focus on the Family’s marriage and parenting magazine, It is the first book in “The Maze Runner” series. Feeling drugged, Thomas wakes up in an elevator car with no memory except his name. He finds he is part of a community of about 50 teen boys called Gladers, and all share the same pattern of memory loss.

Their leader’s name is Alby. In an artificial environment built as an experiment by unknown, unseen scientists called Creators, they live in the Glade, and their lives revolve around trying to solve the Maze, a gray stone structure with walls hundreds of feet high. Entrances to the maze automatically close at the same time every night, which protect the Glade from Grievers — large part-animal, part-mechanical monsters that bite, sting and sometimes kill.

Occasionally a Griever stings one of the boys. If the victim returns to the Glade in time, he can be injected with a serum that saves his life; but it causes a strange, painful process. The boys call it the Changing — when part of the victim’s memory returns — but those who have lived through the Changing all agree that the real world is one they don’t want to return to.

• The few boys who have undergone the Changing say they have seen Thomas in it, and they are convinced that he is bad or perhaps a spy.
• Chuck, the youngest in the compound, is assigned to Thomas to help him acclimate.
• He is the only one to offer Thomas friendship.
• Thomas spends his first couple of days learning the ropes and various work positions, such as Baggers and Sloppers,

Runners are the boys who daily run through the Maze, and when they return just before night, they map the section they ran since each night the walls move, reconfiguring the Maze. The group has been working for two years to figure a way out of the Maze.

Thomas notices that parts of his new life somehow seem familiar, with fleeting impressions of memories just out of reach. He feels driven to be a Runner. Every month, a new boy arrives in the elevator. But on Thomas’ second day, the elevator brings a teen girl. Nearly comatose, Teresa has little memory remaining, and it is quickly fading.

She remembers that she is being sent as a trigger to begin the end of life in the Glade. Later, when Teresa emerges from her coma, Thomas discovers that Teresa can communicate telepathically with him, and they deduce that they must have known each other before their arrival.

1. One evening, as time draws near for the walls to close between the Maze and the Glade, two of the runners have not returned.
2. As the walls nearly finish closing, Thomas sees the two runners but realizes they won’t make it.
3. Breaking the No.1 rule to never leave the Glade at night, he squeezes through the walls at the last second, and he is terrified to find himself in the dark silence of the Maze.

Miraculously, Thomas and the two runners survive their night in the Maze by outwitting several Grievers. Because no one has ever survived before, Thomas becomes a hero and then is promoted to Runner. The end to life in the Glade is triggered when they all awaken one day to the absence of what they thought was a sun, and the fact that they exist in a fabricated place seems more apparent.

Supplies stop arriving, and the walls stop closing, compromising their protection from the Grievers. The community is thrown into a panic. They learn that the Grievers plan to kill one child a day until they’re all dead. Thomas finally decides that the best way to solve the Maze is for him to get stung and endure the Changing in order to retrieve some of his lost memory.

His plan succeeds when the Grievers invade the Glade. Thomas goes through the Changing and learns from it that the boys in the Glade have above-average intelligence and are part of an experiment to test for survival of the fittest. The Creators took them from their homes when they were young, following a catastrophic event called the Flare.

1. Some of them have had their brains altered.
2. The ones who survive are to be used for an unidentified but important purpose.
3. He also learns that he and Teresa were part of the group that planned the Maze.
4. Thomas comes up with a dangerous plan to escape.
5. The plan works, but half of the group dies in the process.

Their escape from the Maze ends in a confrontation with two of the Creators, who mind-control another boy who had disappeared earlier from the Glade. The boy throws a dagger aimed at Thomas, but Chuck moves in front of it and is killed. Suddenly an apparent rescue group arrives on the scene with weapons, shooting and killing one of the two Creators.

1. Then they flee, along with the kids.
2. They board a bus and drive for two hours to a new location.
3. During the ride, a woman tells Thomas and Teresa about the outside world’s catastrophe: A massive solar flare scorched the earth, leaving millions of people dead and diseased.
4. Much of the earth has become a wasteland.

She tells them that this group they are with now is against the Creators and their testing of children. Book one ends with a memo from the World in Catastrophe: Kill End Department (WICKED), known to the kids as the Creators (scientists). It says that what the adolescents just lived through was only the first stage of their trial.

Wooden crosses serve as grave markers. Alby refers to God in a discussion with Thomas. The Creators believe the end justifies the means, even to the point of allowing children to die. The woman scientist at the end tells Thomas and the group that “everything happens for a reason” after Chuck dies. Ever since the Glade’s last leader died, Alby has led them.

Though he and all the boys have experienced being the newbie or Greenie, Alby doesn’t have any empathy for Thomas, and he is short on politeness. He recognizes his shortcomings as a leader after he’s gone through the Changing. In the final battle with the Grievers, Alby is the first to sacrifice himself.

1. He hopes to draw away the Grievers from the rest of the boys and prefers death to a return to life in the real world.
2. Newt is second in command.
3. He tempers Alby’s gruffness and is often the voice of reason.
4. Minho is the Keeper of the Runners and stands up for Thomas after Thomas saves his life.
5. However, when he and Thomas spend the night in the Maze, Minho runs away, reasoning that their chances for survival are better if they split up.

Invented slang and mild profanity are used, such as clunk, shuck-face, shuck it, runtcheeks, slinthead, wettin’ yourself, crap, holy crap, shut your hole, fart, butt, bloody, klunk (another word for poo ) and shank appear throughout. One of the boys is banished to the Maze and certain death when he is placed in a leather collar at the end of a long pole, then shoved into the Maze just before the walls close.

In the graveyard, Thomas sees the remains of a boy who had been sliced in half by an unseen force during an attempt to escape back through the elevator. Ben, who is undergoing the Changing, attacks Thomas. Alby appears and shoots Ben with an arrow that enters Ben’s cheek with a “wet thunk.” His blood is black like oil, and his finger twitches.

Thomas then retches violently. The Changing process is gruesome and is described in detail a couple of times with severe seizure-like symptoms and bulging, discolored eyes and skin. Alby tries to choke himself during his Changing. Alby gets a gash on his head, which bleeds into his eyes.

• Plenty of screaming, stabbing, bleeding, slimy yellow goo, etc.
• Happens in the final battle with the Grievers.
• Chuck throws himself in front of Thomas to save Thomas from a thrown dagger.
• His death is described in detail as the dagger buries itself in his chest.
• Thomas holds Chuck as he convulses then dies, and Thomas’ hands are wet with blood.

Thomas then flies into a rage and attacks the boy who threw the dagger, beating him with his fists until he lies still and senseless. Then a group of people shows up with guns. One of them takes aim and kills one of the Creators, leaving her bleeding profusely.

They continue shooting at the other Creators before fleeing, taking the Gladers with them. They board a bus that runs over a hysterical woman, the wheels thumping over her twice. When Teresa arrives in the lift, one of the boys shouts that he’s “got dibs” on her. When one of the Med-jacks bends over Teresa to check for a heartbeat, another boy shouts he gets the next “shot” at her.

Alby warns everyone not to touch her. Thomas feels a chill sweep through his body when Teresa shakes hands with him, holding his hand for a long time. While Teresa is mentally communicating with Thomas, she suggests that perhaps they had been lovers at one time.

He senses a pleasant chill that causes him to trip and fall while he’s running the Maze. In spite of there being plenty of room on the bench, Teresa presses her body next to Thomas when she goes to sit with him. Thomas squeezes Teresa’s hand to reassure her as the battle with the Grievers begins. With separate rooms assigned to them for the night, Thomas telepathically tells Teresa that he wishes she were in his room.

Suicide mention: One of the boys says they all ought to slit their wrists rather than try to fight all the Grievers in an escape. Movie tie-in: Producers often use a book as a springboard for a movie idea or to earn a specific rating. Because of this, a movie may differ from the novel.

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