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How To Write A Dialectical Journal For The Maze Runner
1.“He began to talk about the good weather and how pleasant it was to walk on the grass, in which a few daisies were growing” (Flaubert 133).
At the beginning of this section, fall is here and winter is around the corner and things are being put into motion. Fall is a time of foreshadowing and the winter is a time for the cold or sorrow. In this quote Emma and Rodolphe are at the fair and having a nice conversation. Rodolphe says that he has feelings for her and he knows that she is falling for him hard and keeps falling with every word he says during their conversation. For Rodolphe the fair is the place that he got her to consider their relationship as more than friends, but as lovers. He does not love her, he wants her for her beauty and has no intentions of being with her for the rest of their
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Loving someone like Emma loves Rodolphe, the love that consumes you, and then knowing that they do not feel the same way and pretending that they do is hard to come to terms with. In The Maze Runner by James Dashner main character's name is Thomas. Thomas is very close to a girl named Teresa who he has known for as long as he can remember. When he is first put in the maze he knows no one and can not even remember his own name. But a girl, the first girl, enters into the maze she immediately recognizes Thomas. The two become very close friends and at one point the readers believe they could have been more than friends. Toward the end of the series Thomas learns that Teresa has been working with the company called Wicked, which is the company that put them in the maze. Thomas felt betrayed like Emma when she learned the why Rodolphe wanted to have an affair with her. When Thomas learned of Teresa’s betrayal he comes cold and pushes her away like Emma does to Rodolphe. Emma and Thomas both are characters who are close to another character, that have betrayed

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