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High Barriers In The Maze Runner By Aliya Coons
The Maze Runner By: Aliya Coons
Thomas wakes up in an elevator with no memory of his past life other than his name. When the elevator doors open he is greeted by a group of teenage boys in a glade, the boys also have no remembrance of their past life. They all share a strange vocabulary to make them special.

Thomas discovers that the Glade is ran by two boys, Alby and Newt, who keep order by enforcing the stern rules and having all the boys busy collecting food. This is vital because outside the Glade is the maze, a horrifying entanglement of high barriers covered in ivy and vines that hide harmful creatures called grievers. That leaves the boys running and running trying to stay alive and find a way out as tracking the movements of the perplexing barriers.
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Yet, unlike all the others she shows up mumbling fatidic words and then falls into a coma. And to worsen the arrival of her strange things start happening at the Glade. The sun vanishes, Deliveries stop coming and the gates stay open all night allowing grievers to come and take the kids as they please. Thomas has the bright idea that maybe the walls aren’t moving just to taunt them, maybe its actually a code. So they basically spectate the walls for a few days and figure out its spelling words. Thomas figures out that the cliff that nobody ever thought anything about is actually where the grievers are coming from. And then they basically think oh if the grievers can come and go out of that hole than we can too right. And when the girl wakes up, and by the way her name is Theresa, well anyways she tells him that they used to know each other and they can speak through their minds

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