The Maze Runner Chapter 6

Maze Runner Chapters 7-18

by Tiffany Solod

This lesson will ask you questions about plot incidents from Chapters 7-18

​What: Understanding characters & their relationships.

​How: Analyzing characters using Characterization in the Maze Runner, chapters 7-18.

​Why? Understanding how characters react to one another assists with understanding the theme and plot lines of the story.

​Brief Review

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Characterization: the creation or construction of a fictional character.

​a description of the distinctive nature or features of someone or something.

Open Ended

1.Describe Chuck and Thomas' relationship.

Open Ended

Why does suspicion fall on Thomas when things start going strangely? Do you think he had something to do with the change?

Open Ended

Who attacks Thomas? Why?

Open Ended

Do you agree with Newt when he says “That's one of the reasons we run this place all nice and busylike. You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple (Dashner, 77).”? Why or why not?

Open Ended

Why do you think Minho is so hostile to Thomas?

Open Ended

Why do you think Thomas is drawn to the job of being a Runner? Argue both for and against being a runner.

Open Ended

How did Frypan differ from what you imagined him to be? Why?

Draw

I want you to draw a picture of a "Griever."