Literature Analysis #2

1. The book I am reading is the Death Cure. The Death Cure is the third book to the Maze Runner series and it is the final trial. The plot of the novel is about a boy named Thomas who is fighting back against a company named WICKED. If you don't what WICKED is it stands for World Catastrophe Killzone Department and their main goal is to find a cure for the Flare (mind altering disease) using immunes and placing them in trials. These trials then create variables which allow WICKED to form a blueprint for the cure.. In the first two books The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials, they were two trials that Thomas and other main characters had to face forced upon them by WICKED. This book is based on Thomas and his friends escape from WICKED and their journey into the city where they face the threat of the Flare and have to remain in hiding until they figure out what they can do to fight back. During the Death Cure, Thomas and his friends were faced with the choice of getting their memories back. While others decided to get their memories back, Thomas and his friends Minho and Newt chose not to. With this decision they unexpectedly escaped WICKED headquarters and journey with their new friends Brenda and Jorge to the city of Denver. The journey to Denver led them to realize a horrible truth about their friend Newt, but there was nothing they could do about it. In the city, they encounter their former friend Gally who tries to recruit them into the Right Arm, a group dedicated to taking WICKED down.

2. I would have to say the theme of the novel is horror. I could also sat the theme is death since it seems to be occurring so often. Throughout the story we see the devastating loss of a friend and the madness of others as they are infected with the Flare. I would say horror because the way the book describes what the Flare does to people calling them Cranks and that when they reach the final stage they being going crazy and mad with hunger for human flesh, kind of like zombies.

3. I can see James Dashner as the author who loves gore and reads graphic novels in his spare time. He sleeps late, gets up to exercise, then walks around the city with no worries, wanders into comic book stores or places like Hot Topic. His morning would consist of coffee all day because t is his favorite drink.