The Maze Runner (Continued)

 This week. I continued to read The Maze Runner. I was able to finish the book, and I was shocked by its ending. Instead of a boy coming into the glade from the box, a girl arrives. And the girl and Thomas can talk to each other telepathically. While this is happening, the walls aren't closing! So every night the grievers come and take only one glader and kill him. So Thomas, with the help of Minho (a runner), he is able to solve the code of how to escape the Maze. Some of the gladers stay back at the Glade, while others follow Thomas to try and escape the Maze. The gladers are able to escape the Maze, but many die including Thomas' best friend Chuck. At the very end, the book reveals that the Maze was only the first trial, their second trial is now going to begin.

This book has so many twists and turns...I can't even keep up with it! Also, I don't undestand what is W.I.C.K.E.D. 's goal.( WICKED is the company that put the gladers in the Maze) throughout the book it kept coming back to one point, WICKED is good, which leads me to believe that WICKED will play an important role in the upcoming books. I can't wait to start reading the Scorched Trials. If you were a glader, would you follow Thomas into the Maze or try to survive in the Glade as long as possible?

The Maze Runner

I have started reading the book The Maze Runner. In this book, a group of kids have to survive in a clearing known as the "glade", and the glade is surrounded by walls. Every morning the walls open, and a couple people known as "the runners" run in the maze, trying to find a way to get out. But.. in the maze there are dangerous creatures known as grievers. These kids know nothing of their past besides their name. However when stung by a griever, they start to remember their past, but go insane. Thomas, the protagonist in this book, becomes the first one of all the kids to survive a night in the maze and kill a griever. This is how far I have gotten into the book.

I really like this book so far because I have never read anything like this. It is interesting how the kids didn't remember anything of their past, but have still managed to survive. Also I like the bravery and curiosity Thomas shows all the time, like asking about the maze, and he killed a griever, being the only one ever too. Plus he rushed into the maze, knowing he could die, to save his friend, which takes courage.

Hunger Games vs. Divergent

Many people have read both the Hunger Games and Divergent. These two books have many things in common, and some things not in common.

A thing in common that these two books have in common that their governments are a dystopia. In a dystopia there is an unjust government. where a person or a group of people want change in the government. Another thing in common about these two books is that the people live in separate groups, not meeting to people of the other groups. In Divergent there are the factions Dauntless, Abnegation, Erudite, Candor, and Amity. In the Hunger Games there are the 12 (later on 13) districts. Also in these books, conflict is brewing in the governments. And not only are the plots similar in these two books, so are the people.

In the Hunger Games the main protagonist is Katniss, and in Divergent the main protagonist is Tris.  These two characters are more similar than people think. They both have to change because of the government. Also, they both have to go through pain and suffering to achieve their goals. Plus they both are strong willed, for example in the Hunger Games in the arena, Katniss never gives up. She keeps on fighting to win. While in Divergent even when Tris is at the bottom of the scoreboard she keeps on working, and keeps on fighting to make it into Dauntless. Both of these books have similarities and differences, but both of them are excellent novels.

Heroes of Olympus

This week I read a new series called The Heroes of Olympus. In this series there are a bunch if people who are the off springs of a god and a mortal (human) therefore called demigods. These demigods are both the kids of Greek and Roman gods, and each have a separate camp in the US to train new demigods, so that demons don't kill them. But, the Romans and the Greeks hate each other, but they need to combine forces with each other and the gods to save the world from the evil and powerful earth goddess, Gaea. Will they survive? Read the series to find out.