James Dashner Character Analysis
Good and evil. The struggle for prosperity between two forces has been the driving factor behind James Dashner’s recent popular series of novels. The ongoing battle between characters and their environment, other characters, or with themselves in this novel is incredibly prevalent. Many of the factors that dramatically influenced the story came with various challenges the characters faced. The problem from person to person is between Thomas and himself when WICKED takes over his body. Person to environment happens when Newt, Thomas’ friend, contracts the deadly Scorch virus. Lastly, person to self occurs when Thomas suggests betraying his friends to join WICKED. Person to person conflict is the most prevalent type of conflict in most literature.
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The Scorch Trials were the last daunting tasks for the young Gladers. The Scorch contained Cranks and everything else that could possibly kill somebody. Including a veracious neurological virus called the Flare. This disease afflicts many in a very short period of time and acts in stages. The first stage is comprised of short-term memory loss and mild confusion. Furthermore, the dominant features of this nasty affliction materialize in stage two. Hysteria and insomnia quickly accompany the already evident confusion and memory loss. The final stage arrives with uncanny signs of rampant convulsions paired with explicit outbursts of aggression. Alternatively, the Flare affects everyone differently and progression varies from person to person. In the novel, Newt is infected with the Flare. Fortunately, his symptoms don’t show until far later in the book: “Newt stood up in a blur of speed and punched the wall behind his chair. ‘First of all, it doesn’t matter if I have the thing in my brain—I’m gonna be past the buggin’ Gone before too long anyway. And I don’t wanna die knowing I ran around a city of healthy people and infected them’”(Dashner 185). The deprivation of mental stability plagues everyone with the Flare. However, I believe Thomas will stumble upon a cure due to the book’s title The Death
The Scorch Trials were the last daunting tasks for the young Gladers. The Scorch contained Cranks and everything else that could possibly kill somebody. Including a veracious neurological virus called the Flare. This disease afflicts many in a very short period of time and acts in stages. The first stage is comprised of short-term memory loss and mild confusion. Furthermore, the dominant features of this nasty affliction materialize in stage two. Hysteria and insomnia quickly accompany the already evident confusion and memory loss. The final stage arrives with uncanny signs of rampant convulsions paired with explicit outbursts of aggression. Alternatively, the Flare affects everyone differently and progression varies from person to person. In the novel, Newt is infected with the Flare. Fortunately, his symptoms don’t show until far later in the book: “Newt stood up in a blur of speed and punched the wall behind his chair. ‘First of all, it doesn’t matter if I have the thing in my brain—I’m gonna be past the buggin’ Gone before too long anyway. And I don’t wanna die knowing I ran around a city of healthy people and infected them’”(Dashner 185). The deprivation of mental stability plagues everyone with the Flare. However, I believe Thomas will stumble upon a cure due to the book’s title The Death