The Maze Runner

When we left off of my last post with Maze Runner, Ben had just been banished.

I am almost done with the book, so I'm just going to sum it up.  Right after that Thomas is standing with Alby and suddenly an Asian kid runs through one of the gates to the maze, exhausted, and raspy, gasping for breath.  It’s a boy named Minho.  After arguing with Alby for a couple of minutes, the leader goes and gets him water.  Minho's back really early.  He tells him he found a dead griever, and then after some resting, they go explore the maze.  They’re gone a long time, and Newt's freaking out, because the walls are about to close, and if they don’t come back, that means that they are dead, near dead, or soon to be dead.  Just as the walls are closing, Thomas sees Minho carrying Alby, his limp arm on his shoulder.  Thomas sees that they are not going to make it and he instinctively breaks the number one rule: never go out into the maze at night.  Minho yells at him and tells him how stupid he is, because they are now all going to die.

Thomas won't accept Minho's hopelessness, and starts brainstorming.  He climbs up the wall using the vines, pushing Alby up inch by inch, using all of his strength.  He sits on the wall thirty feet in the air and waits.  A griever approaches and starts climbing up the wall.  He swings and starts leading the grievers away from Alby by swinging on the vines.  The griever starts chasing him and he runs.  He runs for a long time, then turns and waits for it to approach.  He lets it get within feet of him, and then dives out of the way.  Then Minho finds him and takes him to the cliff.  He tells him to stand there and wait for them.  They wait until four grievers are coming straight at them.  Then, using Thomas's idea, they dive out of the way just when they are about to get them, and they all fall over the edge, except one, which they push off the edge with their feet.  Then they run back to where Thomas told Minho he left Alby.  Minho is so impressed with the Greenie's performance that he doesn't know what to say.

That’s kind of a lot, so we'll stop there. 

DINGBAT OUT!

The Mysterious Ticking Noise

I had always known about the "Snape, Snape, Severus Snape" song, but I had never seen it, or even known what it was called.  In Anatomy and Physiology class, my friend, Sara played it on her laptop and I laughed so hard I cried!  The Piercing Spear made us turn it off, but she was being a hypocrite because around the same time she was watching little kids sing.  Her excuse was, "It's little 6-year-olds singing.  They're adorable!"  It was just a study day so it didn't seem like it mattered much that we were watching it; it wasn't like she was teaching or anything.  

I became immediately obsessed with this video and looked it up later on Youtube, only to find that it was called "The Mysterious Ticking Noise," and had over 715 million hits!  I thought it was awesome, so I watched it at least ten more times and learned it.  I also watched Wizard Swears made by the same people.  The funniest stuff I've seen in a really long time!  I showed it to my brother and he thought it was absolutely hilarious!  He especially liked the Dumbledore part.  "Dumbledore!!" high-pitched.  I liked Snape's and Harry's part the best.  I showed it to my parents and they thought it was the stupidest thing they'd ever seen, but that's just because the video was made for teenage ears and eyes.  Not adults.  So anyway, I'm going to go around and show it to my teachers, the Quack and the Shimmy Dude.  They will probably love it.  My brother and I plan on performing it sometime soon.  I absolutely love it.  I'm going to post the video on here for you to see.

Well, that’s all for now,

DINGBAT OUT!

MAZE RUNNER (Cont'd)

Ever since Thomas heard the word "Runner" he felt that he was destined to be one.  He was asking Chuck about it the second night, or one of the first nights he was there, and Chuck tells him he is crazy and tells him to go to sleep.  Thomas doesn't feel completely lost anymore because some have answered a few of his questions, but not many.

After Thomas wakes up, Newt takes him to one of the walls of the glade with a dirty window. Newt tells Thomas to look into the window and Thomas sees a Griever.  Thomas is pretty startled by what he sees and is upset and scared and he still wants to be a Runner; in fact even more.  I am going to skip a couple of chapters and get into the meat of the story.

Thomas, the very next day after he arrives, a girl comes in via the box.  They all think she is dead.  All of a sudden, her eyes roll back in her head and she creams as she sits up erect and she starts seizing.  In her hand is a crumpled up piece of paper with the following written on it:  "everything is going to change."  They think she is in a coma so that scares the boys.  They think she is not waking up.  The Med-Jacks come to pick her up and take her into the homestead.  Alby suspects Thomas, because since Thomas' arrival crazy things started to happen.  Traditionally one person comes into the glade on the same day, the same time, the same way and now a person arrived a day after Thomas and it is a girl.  Prior to that it had always been boys.   Alby suspects Thomas of doing something, and Thomas has no clue what Alby is talking about.  From there, it gets worse.

Thomas goes for his first day with one of the Keepers.  He goes to the Blood House.  The Keeper's name is Winston.  Winston teaches Thomas how to tend the animals, take care of them and how to slaughter them.  Thomas cannot handle the slaughtering of the animals.  Thomas is convinced that Winston loves his job too much.  Thomas has a theory that all had been sent to the Glade because they did something wrong.  Thomas thinks Winston may have been a Serial Killer.

Thomas goes to the deadheads and goes into a forest with dead trees and it gets progressively darker.  It feels like night time.  He is walking and his stomach goes chill.  He finds a graveyard with approximately 30 people buried.  There are crosses embedded in the ground.  One grave has a window to look in.  There is someone in with half missing that has a sign that says, "This half shank is a reminder of all who wants to go down the box because it will cut you in half."  Thomas feels like he is being followed.  He wants the person to show theirself.  All of sudden Ben attacks him.  Thomas has to break out of his grasp.  Ben is trying to kill him by choking him and stabbing him in the calf.  Alby comes out holding a bow and arrow.  He asks Ben to stop or he will kill him.  Alby aims at Ben's brain to shoot him, but misses and it hits his cheek.  Ben falls over.  Ben, however, survived the attack.  Later the next day, Ben is banished.

The Keepers perform a ceremony to banish Ben.  The Keepers throw Ben in the maze, in the morning when the doors open the collar is sitting there which means they eat the person they leave in the maze.

That's a WRAP!!
DINGBAT OUT.