It has all come a full circle. After going through so many hardships, suffering so much, and losing friends, Thomas' story has come to an end.
After the Scorch Trials, Thomas, the gladers, and the members of group B were carried away to WICKED's headquarters, where they were all told a devastating truth. They all had the Flare. And to make matters worse, there was no cure to it, and that was WICKED's goal, to find a cure. They told them that all the kids were being used as test subjects, to record their brain patterns and try to find a cure. Also, they told them that most of them were immune to the Flare, yet some were not because they needed a control group. Newt was one of them. After hearing all this, Thomas learns that WICKED wants to cut open his brain to try and complete the cure. He and the other gladers don't trust WICKED, so they run away and counter attack and destroy WICKED. But some friends die along the way such as Teresa and Newt. At the end the gladers and other immune people, after going through a flat transporter, arrive in a wildlife paradise, where they will live out the rest of their lives as the rest of the world goes into extinction.
I found this books ending kind of sad, and confusing. All the effort that the gladers and WICKED go through... for nothing? In the end, basically the world ends except for the small group of about a hundred people. How will they survive without the help of others, and without technology? I feel like this ending was left a little incomplete, and that the author could possibly make a sequel to this series, maybe showing the story of Thomas' kids and how they travel back into the real world. What do you think?
After the Scorch Trials, Thomas, the gladers, and the members of group B were carried away to WICKED's headquarters, where they were all told a devastating truth. They all had the Flare. And to make matters worse, there was no cure to it, and that was WICKED's goal, to find a cure. They told them that all the kids were being used as test subjects, to record their brain patterns and try to find a cure. Also, they told them that most of them were immune to the Flare, yet some were not because they needed a control group. Newt was one of them. After hearing all this, Thomas learns that WICKED wants to cut open his brain to try and complete the cure. He and the other gladers don't trust WICKED, so they run away and counter attack and destroy WICKED. But some friends die along the way such as Teresa and Newt. At the end the gladers and other immune people, after going through a flat transporter, arrive in a wildlife paradise, where they will live out the rest of their lives as the rest of the world goes into extinction.
I found this books ending kind of sad, and confusing. All the effort that the gladers and WICKED go through... for nothing? In the end, basically the world ends except for the small group of about a hundred people. How will they survive without the help of others, and without technology? I feel like this ending was left a little incomplete, and that the author could possibly make a sequel to this series, maybe showing the story of Thomas' kids and how they travel back into the real world. What do you think?
This was an interesting post, Vidhan. I personally have never read this series, but your summary actually ruins the series for me, but I don't really care. based off your summary, you are right in the sense that, it is a depressing ending. Thank you for this post, Vidhan.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your post. The entire series was very depressing and hopeless and the last book was also confusing.
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