Imagine you pop up in a box and you're surrounded by dirty teenage boys staring at you like you just did something crazy. Well that's how Thomas feels when he comes through the box up into the glade. As the reader you are experience the story in first person so at this point  both you the reader and Thomas have no idea what is going on. In fact he has no memory at all except his name and the face of a girl. That girl shows up the day afyer and all she says is I triggered the ending.

Thomas has been brought to the Glade. The Glade is a place that is covered in green grass one main building and a few others around the area. It is surrounded by huge stone walls that as we learn later on... move. Beyond these stone walls is the maze. I'm not talking about a little maze on the back of a children’s' menu, I'm talking about a huge maze that changes every night. 

There is a system in the Glade everyone has a job and each job is different. Thomas is forced to try every job but the one that caught his eye from the start was runner. A runner was someone who would leave the glade every day to go into the maze to find an exit. Every morning the runners leave into the maze and when they get back they have to write a map of where they ran and how the maze moved. They have been there two years and they have found no exit However it was a dangerous job because there was more danger than just being lost in the maze. There were grievers. grievers were big gray slug like creatures with spikes all over their bodies. If you were caught by a griever you would be stung and would have to go through the changing. The changing is a terrible thing it sends that person into terrible pain and suffering but the one good thing that comes from all of it is you regain memories (IMPORTANT). 

 This book is very similar to The Hunger Games and in real life it could be related to global warming. I believe that James Dashner did a great job on this book it kept you always wanting more never satisfied. The suspense always is there it almost is never gone. I have to say that I was actually skeptical when I started because of how strange everything was and how annoying it was that they had their own language in the Glade. Well, it wasn't really a full language it was just a few terms such as klunk and shuck. This was a great read that I recommend to anyone with a desire for adventure. That’s why I give Maze Runner an A+