Summary

Thomas wakes up in a metal box, a dark elevator it seems. All
Thomas could remember was his name but nothing else. He
doesn’t remember his past, where he came from or his parents
were. A door opens overhead revealing a big group of young boys.
As he finds out, they lived in a type of farm surrounded by high
walls. The boys called it “The Glade”. Beyond the giant walls is a
maze which closes its doors at night, changes its course the and
is filled with huge spider-like creatures the called “Grievers”.
Every month supplies and a new boy is sent up to the Glade. The
new boy is called a “greenie”. On the way, Thomas meets the
leader of the young boys, Alby. He befriends Chuck, the greenie
before Thomas, and Newt, ‘the nice one’, and creates enemies
such a Gally.
Thomas learns that Griever stings create a violent and terrifying
reactions to the victim (known as the changing). He also learns
about runners, people who enter the maze to try to map the maze
and find their way out. Minho is their leader.
The day after Thomas enters the glade, a girl arrives who is the
first one ever. Her name is Teresa and she warns the boys that
everything is about to change and proceeds to go into a comma.
She seemed to be the last one to be sent to the glade. Thomas
also seems to think that she’s is familiar and that he’s seen her
somewhere.
Thomas decides that he wants to be a runner after a boy named
Ben, who experiences the changing, says that he knows who
Thomas really is. Thomas believes that there was a reason why
there were sent to the glade.
Alby then decides to explore the maze with Minho when all of a
sudden, he guts stung by a griever. Minho and a weakened Alby is
unable to reach the door on time before the doors closed. Thomas
then leaps inside the maze causing him to get himself into danger.
All three of them are stuck in the maze, at night. This is the time
when most of the grievers are active. A griever appears right in

front of them and they run. Thomas, for the first time ever, kills a
griever and be the first ones ever to survive a night in the maze.
After they come back to the glade from the maze, Thomas is then
trialed by the gladers for breaking the rule of entering the maze.
Even if some people think that he’s a hero, some like Gally think
that there is a dark side to him. He’s then sent temporarily to the
glade jail. Gally then gets into a fight with Minho concerning who
Thomas is. He then runs away stating that he will take revenge.
Alby recovered from the changing. Now along with Ben, he knows
that he’s seen Thomas before, mainly him being involved in
building the maze.
Teresa is still in a coma while Thomas visits her and starts
communicating telepathically. This scares Thomas but she tells
her that both of them were involved in making the maze. Thomas
then becomes a runner trainee under Minho. They search for
some changes in the maze. Nothing new. Teresa then tells
Thomas that she has triggered some thing at the end.
The next day, the sky turns very grey. Thomas realizes that the
glade is fabricated. Not even the sky is real. Teresa tells Thomas
that the maze is a code.
Teresa awakes from her coma and meets Thomas for the first
time. Thomas is interested in her and seemed to share a hidden
past. Alby and Newt are suspicious of her. The doors of the maze
did not close at night like they usually do. Alby and Newt
imprisoned Teresa. The gladers wait for the grievers to enter the
glade. Gally unexpectedly makes a return and willingly throws
himself to the grievers.
He tells the gladers that he will kill each and every one of them.
They also found that the sketches of the maze over the years has
been burnt by someone unknown. Thomas tries to remember how
the maze works. He found out that those that were burnt were all
fake sketches. Thomas looks at the real sketches with Teresa.
They find some letters which spell out the words: FLOAT, CATCH,
BLEED, DEATH, STIFF, and PUSH.
Thomas, desperate for answers, allows himself to be stung by the
grievers to retrieve his memory. After recovery, Thomas

remembers. He and Teresa were forced to help the creators (those
who sent them to the glade in the first place). They were forced to
help them to design the maze and were also telepathically linked.
He also knows the way out of the maze. The way out was over a
cliff in the maze where grievers enter and exit.
Some of the gladers, lead by Thomas, learn that the cliff was just a
illusion. They fight of an army of grievers while Chuck and Teresa
jump in the cliff to put the code words in a computer and a door
opens nearby. FLOAT, CATCH, BLEED, DEATH, STIFF, and
PUSH. The remaining twenty gladers jump in as well that lands
them in an underground hallway. They finally meet the creators
behind some glass.
A pale woman greets them and congratulates them. She came
along with a boy. It was Gally. He throws a knife directed at
Thomas until Chuck steps in front of the knife instantly killing him.
Thomas is devastated. He promised Chuck they would find a way
out. Thomas runs to Gally almost beating him to death. A group of
rescuers come in and shoot the woman.
They go outside where a bus waits for them. A scarred woman
tells him that they are here to save them from “The Flare”. A solar
flare disease that has affected humanity and turns those affected
into zombie-like creatures. He gets away from the woman. A few a
hours ride later they are escorted in a building where they have
food, take a shower and have bunk beds with bunk beds. They
finally feel safe and Thomas sleeps with hope for the future.
A woman by the name of Ava Paige, who is a creator, reveals the
maze was a trial for the gladers. They have succeeded in this part
of the trials and are now moving on to the next stage. This was all
part of an experiment. The aim of the experiment is to find
intelligent children to help them find a cure for the flare and save
humanity.

by jaella