It has been two years since the first boys have found themselves in the maze with wiped-out memories and now Thomas has joined them.
And each night the walls directly surrounding the Glade, the place where the boys live, close and shield the Gladers against the dreadful monsters that inhabit the maze. Every day a small number of the boys, the Runners, leave the Glade and head out into the unknown to find a way out and Thomas wants to become one of them.Īs if solving a gigantic maze wouldn't be challenging enough, the walls of the maze move every night to create new dead ends and new paths. The maze is gigantic and the fifty boys who are caught in it live on a farm in the middle of the maze, an area called the Glade. The only thing Thomas can recall is that he must solve the Maze to save himself and the other Gladers. His memory has been wiped, as have all the memories of the Gladers, the teenagers who inhabit the maze. Thomas, the sixteen years old hero, remembers nothing about himself except his name. Quite in contrast, The Maze Runner kicks off directly in the middle of the trial and as the title says, a seemingly unsolvable maze must be solved.
In The Hunger Games the hero, Katniss Everdeen, and the world the story plays in, Panem, are introduced at the beginning and only later in the book the actual trials start. Firstly, the setting is a post-apocalyptic world with an authoritarian regime, secondly a young teenage hero or heroine decides to fight against the rulers, and finally the heroes are being tested in a trial and have to fight for life or death. The similarities between The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner are striking. The Maze Runner is the first book in a trilogy written by the American author James Dashner.
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