The Scorch Trials

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“All he could think about was what had been tattooed on his own neck. That he was to be killed” (Dashner 67). This excerpt is taken from the book The Scorch trials by James Dashner, which takes place in the dystopia resulting from the biological holocaust caused by unrelenting solar flares and the initially controlled release of a lethal virus. Thus the book follows a troop of young men through an onslaught of trials and tribulations, which in my opinion embodied the quintessence of a nightmare. The above excerpt, from the main character Thomas, shows the complete and utter vulnerability of these boys to the organization that essentially owns them. In the case of Thomas, the organization, WICKED, intends to have him killed by another one of…show more content…
This would then serve as an impetus to the prime objective of WICKED, the development of a cure to The Flare. “’So it’s not a cure? Even though it slows the virus down’” (Dashner 204). These were the words of Thomas to his fairly new acquaintance, Brenda, after she explained to him that the closest thing available to a cure, as of now, is a numbing agent; moreover, this numbing agent is only available to excessively-unimaginably-unfathomably opulent, those who should have full access to any emerging drug that would be developed. This is so significant because a cure was the only factor that spurred Thomas and his friends to risk life and limb by embarking on the trials in the first place, and now it has been made evident that WICKED doesn’t even have a cure. So now one might ask, why would WICKED be hosting these horrendous trials then? Well in my opinion, the only logical answer is that the trials must serve a purpose in the creation of a…show more content…
The most pressing matter being, what is the fate of our protagonist and his acquaintances? Due to the current direction of the novel I am led to believe that the group is going to be dramatically shrunken, specifically by means of death. For one, on their current endeavor they are tasked with crossing 100 miles of dessert. That alone can prove too mountainous a task for the average person. On top of this, the trail to the safe haven that the group is tasked with reaching is pockmarked with diseased savages who have been ravaged physically and mentally with the flare, and who’s only instinct left is to kill. And finally, and possibly most frightening, there is another, larger group, Group B, that is to attack, and quite possibly kill Thomas’ group. With these daunting tasks facing the group it is safe to assume that the size of the group is to dramatically

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