Book Response #3: The Scorch Trials

 

 

After reading the first book of the Maze Runner, I was excited to read the second book: The scorch trials. The beginning of the book got off to a fast start, and had many suspenseful parts. In the first book it had a slow start, but once the book got going it picked up the pace. I've only gotten through the first 30 pages so I don't have much of a summary to tell. Although after finishing the maze, the gladers find themselves in an odd room where they were placed in by their rescuers.

 

 When they wake up the next morning, they try and escape the room, but they find themselves surrounded by their rescuers hanging from a rope from the ceiling. They don't know if it was a murder or suicide, but they are scared to death. They have no way of escaping what could be another death trap, or anyway of being rescued.

 

The main character Thomas soon looks for his friend Teresa who is the only girl in the group. But to their surprise they find a boy they've never seen before named Aris. Aris says he was in the same experiment as the other boys, but he was the only boy, like Teresa.

 

 

"How about we all just take turns beating the living klunk out of your shuck face? Then we'll ask you to talk again. " -Minho yelling at Aris when he refuses to answer questions.

 

 

I chose this quote because it shows the weird slang words they use to talk to each other, and also it shows how Minho is a natural leader, and now without their past leader Alby gone, he has to step up and take that role.