The Maze Runner takes place in the distant future when war has destroyed all civilization. Finally, Thomas reaches the surface in the elevator and enters into the Glade, a large grassy plain surrounded by huge, …show more content…
When Thomas becomes a runner he learns that there is no way to escape the Maze and that it has no end. When a sector of the Maze is open when it shouldn't be Minho and Thomas explore it to find a room that they can escape through. The gates to the MAze close every night, which no one has survived the night. When Minho is trapped in the Maze as the gates are closing Thomas runs in to help him. Thomas is faced with the problem of the Grievers. Mechanical, spider-like creatures that sting you with a venom that kills you. Thomas and Minho manage to kill the pursuing Grievers and find a key in one of the Grievers flesh. When the gates to the maze do not close to the Maze that night people start to worry, Grievers reach the Glade and attack them, taking one person each night. Eventually, the remaining survivors go into the Maze and fight through Grievers and reach the exit, they use the key and escape into the edge of the Maze where they have to jump off and into a small hole where they would be safe. From there, they reach a slide that takes them into a room where they are rescued by a group of survivors from outside of the Maze and are taken away in a