The Maze Runner Movie And Book Comparison Essay

"Just follow me like your life depends on it. Because it does."(Dashner 361) In where a boy named Thomas finds himself in a maze with several other boys and no memory of how he got there or his past. Things start happening when a girl named Teresa arrives at the maze the very next day. Either they find a way out or they all die. It is important that you read this essay because of the many similarities and differences you might have missed when you read the book and then watched the film. The movie, "The Maze Runner" is one of the best selling books and most sold out movie of all time;however there are many differences and similarities between them and the added events in the film. The novel, "The Maze Runner" and it 's film adaptaion are different for several reasons. In the film, Minho and Alby didn 't seem very friendly torwards eachother. They had almost zero contact but in the book they were the best of friends, and they would tease eachother to no end. Both of them were leaders. What they had was true friendship because Minho had risked his life to save Albys. When it was close to the end of the movie

In the end of both film and book Chuck ends up dead. Even if Gally was controlled by wicked or bitten by a griever his command was to kill Thomas. But in the end Chuck gets in the way so Thomas would survive. Also in the book and its film adaptation Thomas becomes a runner. Thomas becomes a runner for the same reasons. He is given the privilege to be a runner because of his courageous act when he killed a griever, saved Minho and Alby, and was the first one to survive a night in the maze. In the film he injects himself with griever 'venom '. And in the book he goes into the maze and gets stung by a live griever. But in he end he ends up getting stung and goes through the changing. In addition both the movie and the film have