![]() ![]() ![]() Thomas, along with Minho were running through the maze when they found writing on one of the walls that read: WORLD IN CATASTROPHE: KILLZONE EXPERIMENT DEPARTMENT. “Panic exploded within him, consumed him.” By using personification, the story is more intense because it shows Thomas’s panic as if it was taking over him when he was watching Gally slowly being eaten by the disgusting Griever. ![]() On page 258, Thomas has a near-death experience where he is literally a few feet from a Griever that is eating a Glader named Gally. The use of personification in the Maze Runner increases the intensity of certain situations and brings important information to the reader’s mind. During the Maze Runner, similes gave background information and better descriptions of what is happening in the story. The use of the simile helped describe the terrible and haunting sounds Griever’s make. “But nothing sent chills up and down Thomas’s spine like the haunted, deathly moans that somehow escaped the creature when it sat still, like the sound of dying men on a battlefield.”. Grievers, which are the disgusting and dangerous creatures that travel through the Maze make very creepy sounds. The simile described how Thomas felt when he was met with a huge blast of cold down in the Griever Hole. “A line of icy cold shot across Thomas’s skin as he entered the Griever Hole, starting from his toes and continuing up his whole body, as if he’d jumped through a flat plane of freezing water”. The cold conditions of the Griever Hole greatly surprised Thomas. By using a simile, James Dashner really lets the reader know how hard it is for the Gladers to keep alive as they travel to the maze’s exit. “The seething impossibility of their predicament was like a heavy deluge of black water flooding around him, dragging him toward surrender”. Escaping the maze is an extremely hard task for the Gladers and they almost get to the point of dying and giving up. James Dashner’s book the Maze Runner has lots of analogies in the form of similes and metaphors which help the reader understand the story. The author adds similes and personification to further describe the hero’s journey of Thomas and the quest of the escaping gladers. In chapters 57 and 58 the author used figurative language to support the story’s symbolic archetype, The Maze. Scary situations, strange mysteries, and getting attacked by vicious artificial monsters are just a few of the things characters face in the shocking world of The Maze Runner. ![]()
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