![]() Each conflict builds on the one previous with narrow escapes, new (and sometimes twisted) scenarios and characters, and the power of WICKED slowly encompassing their lives. Middle school and high school readers enjoy Dashner’s non-stop action. Instead, it gives the reader pause to think about that ageless question: do the ends ever justify the means? When looking at this epidemic, is it right to sacrifice a few for the good of the many? Is the long-term survival of the human race only possible without a cure? The ending is not what the reader anticipates, nor is it immediately satisfying. Eventually they join an organization called “The Right Arm” whose goal it is to infiltrate and physically destroy WICKED. Now, the current leaders of WICKED want to restore everyone’s memories, but Thomas’s instinct tells him that they must resist and escape. Thomas’s old friend Theresa has always insisted that WICKED is good. Thomas and his friends have been involved with WICKED since its inception, but their memories have been altered and their only firm recollections begin in the Glade, with flashes of recall returning in dreams. WICKED is committed to finding a cure, using and abusing the Immunes in the process. He soon learns that he and most of his friends are immune to the Flare, the deadly epidemic which is destroying the human race eating away at peoples’ minds and making them go violently crazy. The Death Cure begins as Thomas, the leader of the Gladers, wakes up in isolation, imprisoned by WICKED. Middle school readers have been eagerly anticipating this exciting conclusion to James Dashner’s Maze Runner trilogy. The Death Cure (Maze Runner Trilogy, Book 3) That's an ongoing theme of this installment, which does feature some thrills and nail-biting confrontations but is ultimately about a group of young men (girls and women are scarce in this series) who learn to trust, protect, and defend one another against villains who sought to use and destroy them.Check out the interview with author James Dashner! Scodelario's conflicted Teresa pleads her case to Thomas, who's willing to donate blood if it means saving the infested. The world-building isn't as strong here as in, say, The Hunger Games, but it does have a clearer premise than the later Divergent films: The immune just need to get away from WCKD's experimenting and start over together.Ī couple of twists and turns reunite the Gladers with kids they thought they'd never see again, and characters must make difficult life-or-death choices. The stakes in this one are high, but for Thomas and his buddies, it all boils down to saving Minho.
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