The Death Cure by James Dashner | The Maze Runner Book Three

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For this week's blog, I continued reading "The Death Cure" by James Dashner. Due to tons of schoolwork, our school play, and after school activities, I didn't get to read much. However, this is what has happened so far.

Thomas, the protagonist, and the rest of his group safely arrived at WICKED's lair. They expected to receive a cure for the Flare, a deadly disease which makes you go insane, but instead got told that most of them are actually immune to the disease. Those of which are not immune, like Newt (one of Thomas' dearest friends), will get even more affected by the Flare and will die rather quickly if a cure is not found soon. In order to find a cure WICKED has to collect Gladers' brain patterns through many challenges and trials. (Gladers are the people who are being experimented on) After completing the Scorch Trials in the previous book ("The Scorch Trials"), WICKED brings more assignments for the Gladers. In this book, Thomas went through a patience test in which WICKED put him in an all white room for four weeks. They wanted to see how long it would take Thomas to go insane and try absolutely anything just so he can get out. Afterwards, the WICKED team allowed him to take a shower and gave him fresh, clean clothes and lead him into a room in which sat all of Thomas' group-mates. Thomas sat down and WICKED had another announcement to make. They gave all the Gladers an option of getting their memories back. In order to do that, specialists would remove a certain chip from the Gladers' heads. To this, Thomas said no. There are a couple simple reasons why. Firstly, WICKED is clever and how could the Gladers know that their memories are actually what they experienced before this testing started. Secondly, Thomas and another one of his group-mates Teresa discovered they are able to use telepathy. Teresa and Thomas are best friends though Thomas is in love with her. From the first day them two met, they talked telepathically almost every day. If Thomas agreed on getting his memory back, he'd lose his telepathic ability. Losing it is a scary thought and the main reason he's holding back on this opportunity.
After rejecting to get his memory back, Thomas gets together with Minho and Newt and them three discuss about ways of escaping WICKED's lair. Their long discussion ended and they fell asleep. After a warm and long sleep, WICKED announces the Gladers are getting their memories back, like it or not.  Thomas was shocked and agitated, it was time to do what he should have done a long time ago. He gathered with Minho and Newt and all three decided they are going to try to escape from this torturous place. The next morning, they were onto it. Thomas, Minho, and Newt sneaked out early morning and tried to go through the lair without catching the guards' attention. Unfortunately, the guards noticed them and tried to stop them. Brenda, a girl that works for WICKED but is Thomas' friend, showed up as well. Surprisingly, she tried to help the three Gladers escape. But before she made it clear she's helping Thomas and the other two, she played out a murder attempt on Thomas. She said she would shoot him if she moves, pointed the gun at his face, but moved it towards other guards afterwards. Brenda shot all other guards and ran along with Thomas, Minho and Newt. The chapter ended with them seeing Rat Man, a guy dressed up in all white, and we still don't know if the four got what they wanted the most; freedom.

As for two unknown words, they are slew and tentative.

"And when he did, his dreams were a slew of scattered images and memories." (Dashner 43)
Slew means a violent or uncontrollable sliding movement and a sentence it could be used in is; "The slew of our car affected my vision."

"As she watches her she picks up a cup of steaming liquid and takes a tentative sip." (Dashner 43)
Tentative means hesitant and a sentence it could be used in is; "I took a tentative step up a hill."

Well, I hope to finish this book soon. It's exciting, interesting, and extremely joyful!

I hope you had fun reading!