Monday, January 12, 2015

40 Book Challenge 1/12/15

The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Prompt:
-Are the characters realistic (do they seem like they could be real people)? Why or why not?
-How did the reading make you feel? Why?
Pages: 158-FINISHED BOOK

     The characters in The Maze Runner are very realistic to me in many ways. One main reason on why I think they are really realistic characters is they all have emotions and thoughts they convey in every chapter, page, sentence, word. They have emotions that's how authors build likable and the ones you don't really like. It is a very important element in a story.

      In this story Thomas' emotions and thoughts are everywhere (not literally). This builds his personality and choices he makes. Another character that showed great emotions and thoughts was Chuck. His thoughts towards Thomas saved Thomas' life, sadly he couldn't save himself... Chuck was Thomas' best friend, and since Thomas' actions really showed Chuck they were really good friends. Thomas, showed his emotions a lot when Chuck died. Thomas promised Chuck that he would return Chuck to his parents, and Chuck then felt very big of him and scarified himself.

     This reading made me feel very gloomy. When Chuck died I literally felt like crying too. Gally killed him, instead of killing Thomas. Thomas held Chuck as he was dying, Thomas was crying. It was a very emotional part in the story, you get attached to the characters. Everyone was sad, but they had to leave right away, Thomas didn't want to leave Chuck there...dead...

     The story did make me happy at one point. When they finally escaped the Maze. I really didn't think they would of made it out. They all made it out, until Gally followed them and tried to kill Thomas, but killed Chuck instead. Also, when they had people join them to live, it took a lot of effort and was very exciting.

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