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Comparing To Kill A Mockingbird 'And Maze Runner'

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What catches your mind? Are you a leader or a bandwagon? We need to pay attention to the things around us that helps make our choices. There are words and actions that helps us to be adventurous, curious and take challenges. It is how we react to the influences that makes us great or breaks us down. Stories are inspiring because we can become winners, by trying hard,and they can bring us together ….similar to To Kill a Mockingbird, McFarland USA, and Maze Runner. The story to Kill a Mockingbird is a very complex story. It has an unsatisfactory resolution/ending. It just ends. The story doesn't have a good conclusion. It feels like they just quickly wrapped up the story. The ending of To Kill A MockingBird is when Boo brings Jem …show more content…

There are many different characters in this story. They are introduced to each other one at a time by being brought up to the Glade by an elevator in the ground. Once a month another boy is brought up to the Glade. The boys learn to adapt to each other and their surroundings. Thomas arrives and the very next day Teresa, the first girl, arrives. Everything in the Glade starts to change. Thomas has tons of questions and wants to find answers. He wants to understand what happens to someone when they get stung by a griever. He is especially interested in finding a way out of the maze. Thomas discovers that the moving walls are actually spelling out words. He uses his problem solving skills to help the boys get out of the maze. One day the walls do not close. Grievers are coming into the Glade. Thomas decides to go for it and get out. Some of the boys follow Thomas into the maze. They run into many obstacles and even death for some. It is adventurous for the boys to trust Thomas and try to escape their home in the Glade. They finally make it out and see that the whole thing was a set up. They were being tested like in a game. There is a whole bigger world out there and this isn’t the only place where tests are happening. Their adventure is just

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