This book, The Scorch Trials by James Dashner has only continued to get better. After the Gladers reached the outskirts of the town they encountered a huge, life threatening storm. There was blazing wind and giant thunderbolts striking down every other second. About half of the Gladers made it to the building they were trying to reach. Many people either got lost, shocked to death or burned to a crisp like Minho, but, luckily Thomas helped him put out the flames and get back to the safety of the building. Once they made it there a crank called Jorge and his crew came down to ask them what they were doing and they struck a deal, if the Cranks escorted the Gladers to the safe haven which the rat man told them to go to then the Cranks could have the cure. As they went to refuel of food an explosion blocked them into the tunnels which they were eating in. The Gladers and Jorge went off one way and Brenda and Thomas got separated from them. As the couple were running through the Underneath (the abandoned subway tunnels which were infested with Cranks that were past the Gone) they got chased by a group of way past Gone cranks that had no noses, they wanted to take Thomas and Brenda's nose. The two hid in a small crevasse and eventually got found by the crank and were forced to kill the crank or get killed. Thomas was the one that had to kill the crank and this action really ate at Thomas's continence. Thomas was going crazy in all of these dark tunnels and was done with it, he wanted to go outside no matter how dangerous it was out there. As they were sneaking through the town, they got forced into a party of cranks that weren't fully gone at gunpoint. They were fed a drink at gunpoint and during this time Brenda went in to kiss Thomas therefore confirming all of the hints that she loves him and Thomas breaks her heart by telling her she could never be Teresa. When they woke up they had the most painstaking headache imaginable and were tied to chairs with duct tape by the people who had forced them into the town at gunpoint. They wanted Thomas because there are towns all over the city that say he is the real leader in big bold printed letters. When a ruckus breaks out upstairs the 3 cranks go up to see what's going on and when the door opens, Minho and the other Gladers were there to save him. They get out of the building and Thomas is shot in his shoulder and taken by W.I.C.K.E.D. to get help because he learned that this was not a variable, a gun should not have been in the city of cranks.
The Scorch Trials is sort of like a rat maze but instead of rats, it is humans that are being tested. "Rats have been used in experimental mazes since at least the early 20th century. Thousands of studies have examined how rats run different types of mazes, from T-mazes to radial arm mazes to water mazes. These maze studies are used to study spatial learning and memory in rats. Maze studies helped uncover general principles about learning that can be applied to many species, including humans. Today, mazes are used to determine whether different treatments or conditions affect learning and memory in rats." (Rats and Mazes). The "rat maze" has different variables to see how the rats will solve problems much like way W.I.C.K.E.D. is throwing variables at the Gladers to see how they react to collect data on the cure.
I wish that he would find Teresa soon and that she will be of good help. I hope that he will not have been mind washed by W.I.C.K.E.D because I really like Thomas and Teresa as a couple. If she doesn't love Thomas anymore I wonder how Thomas will react and if this is all a part of the killzone patterns that will try to push Thomas and the others further for whatever W.I.C.K.E.D. is trying to gain research for.
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