My journey through Dashner's The Maze Runner has now officially come to a close. For me, it's sad to know this day is here because it means I've finished the book, a book that brought so much joy to homework for the past two weeks. Good thing we're already halfway through the semester!
Instead of meeting in person, my group discussed The Maze Runner over text for our last book club. Chapters 50 through 62 is packed full of information, and everything seemed to happen so quickly, which made it a bit hard to understand. However, my group members and I agreed that Dashner wrote in this way to demonstrate how fast everything was happening to The Gladers. Dashner wanted us, as the readers, to feel the chaos that The Gladers were experiencing.
My group also found it interesting that as soon as the boys and Teresa escaped from the Maze, the new people who shot the Creators showed up. How did these people know The Gladers had escaped? My group predicted that maybe they, too, had experienced The Glade, and were waiting at the end of the escape route to save the boys and Teresa. We also thought that these people could possibly be a part of the group of Creators, but rebelled against the others to save the boys. I wonder if we will find out who these people are for sure in the next book.Myself as well as all of my other group members were shocked when we found out that Gally had survived. We all believed he had died when The Grievers took him! Since he was still alive, we concluded that the Creators captured him. There always seemed to be something strange about him, so I wonder if he was being controlled by The Creators the entire time he was in The Maze. Was he himself a Creator?
Although I have now turned the last page, read the last word, closed the book for the last time, I still have many unanswered questions about what has happened so far. Dashner rounds out The Maze Runner with a cliffhanger, almost forcing you to grab a hold of the sequel. I know I can't wait to get my hands on it!
No comments:
Post a Comment