Blog post #9

   I have just finished reading the book "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner. After a few chapters, I made a connection between another great book that I read, which is "Furnace: Lockdown" by Alexander Gordon Smith. The setting is very similar yet so different. Both are prison-like settings with kids trying to escape, and the main character gets a friend/s near the beginning that dies at the end.

   As I mentioned, the settings are also very different. In Furnace: Lockdown, the inmates are fed slop, given terrible living conditions, and people abusing power. In The Maze Runner, the kids are smart enough to make a community, but they are also given good living conditions, medicine, a garden, and a place to raise animals for meat.

   In The Maze Runner, Thomas and Chuck have a bro relationship. At first their relationship is shaky, as when Chuck plays a practical joke on Gally, Thomas gets caught in the middle. Their relationship develops so much that at the end of the book, when Gally is being controlled and throws a knife at Thomas, Chuck throws himself in the middle and sacrifices his life. When Chuck stops convulsing, Thomas snaps and starts to beat up Gally so badly, his friends Newt and Minho have to pull him off of Gally. This shows that Thomas and Chuck had a really good relationship.