Maze Runner Book Comparison

The film industry is known for turning many books into movies. Like every transition of a book into a movie, there are similarities and differences that occur. Of course, there are going to be things that they will do correctly, do wrong, or just leave completely out because of time or to make it go more smoothly. One book to film conversion that has happened in the past two years was The Maze Runner. During this conversion of book to film, there were some things the creators kept the same and did differently, such as the telepathy, the grievers, and the maze exit.

The most important step when converting a book into a movie is condensing the plot of the book to fit into a certain amount of time. The creators do not want to make the audience sit there for six hours watching a movie, and possibly lose interest. The book centers around Thomas, who wakes up on an elevator to The Glade where there are other boys close to his age. He solely remembers his name just as the other boys do not remember anything except for their name. They find that the single way to leave is through the maze. The movie does a good job of centering

It is the part of the plot where everything starts being resolved. In The Maze Runner book and movie, the griever hole is the exit out of The Glade. Thomas and Minho discover the griever hole and soon figure out it is the only way to getting out of The Glade. The way the maze was set up and how it changed was the key to getting out. In contrast, the way the characters figure out the key to getting out is distinctly different. In the book, the key is words formed by different sections of the maze that they put together, and such words are float, push, etc. They then have to type these words into the passcode lock found at the griever hole in order to leave. In the movie, they use a sequence of numbers collected from different sections of the maze that they push on the number pad in the griever hole to