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Anthem And Maze Runner Literary Analysis
Anthem and Maze Runner both share strong character development throughout the story. In anthem equality is developing as a character of his own while in Maze Runner, Thomas is with a group. The novels have similar reactions to the dystopian elements in their society. The dystopian elements help develop both Equality and Thomas, which is because it made Equality a wiser person and made him learn about individualism while for Thomas he has to keep fighting and trying everyday to run out the maze.

Thomas and the Maze Runner is different because his development relies of hope. For example he says “we may have found something, what is it? I don't know but it may be the ticket out of here.”(Dashner 226) It gives the reader a sense that he wants

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