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'''The Death Cure''' is the third book in the [[Young-adult fiction|young-adult]] [[dystopia]]n [[science fiction]] series, ''The Maze Runner Trilogy'' by [[James Dashner]], following ''[[The Maze Runner]]'' and ''[[The Scorch Trials]]''. The novel was published October 11, 2011 by [[Random House Children's Books]].<ref name="goodreads Information of The Death Cure">[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7864437-the-death-cure Goodreads Information]</ref>The trilogy is being shopped as a possible film series. |
'''The Death Cure''' is the third book in the [[Young-adult fiction|young-adult]] [[dystopia]]n [[science fiction]] series, ''The Maze Runner Trilogy'' by [[James Dashner]], following ''[[The Maze Runner]]'' and ''[[The Scorch Trials]]''. The novel was published October 11, 2011 by [[Random House Children's Books]].<ref name="goodreads Information of The Death Cure">[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7864437-the-death-cure Goodreads Information]</ref>The trilogy is being shopped as a possible film series. |
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== Plot == |
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After the events in The Scorch Trials, Thomas is locked up for solitary confinement for 26 days. He is released and Assistant Director Janson(Rat Man) admits to him and the other Gladers (including ones from Group B) that there is no cure for the Flare and that they were lying to them about it. He then announces that some people, including Newt, are not immune to the Flare. Everybody else, though, is immune. |
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Janson then gives the Gladers a chance to get their memories back. Even though Minho, Newt, and Thomas say no to it, they are forced to. Luckily Brenda, who Thomas met in the Scorch, helps them escape. They discover the Gladers who wanted their memories escaped too. Before leaving, Newt gives Thomas a note that he can't read until "the time is right". Shortly after that, Thomas, Newt, and Minho help the other remaining Gladers - about half are missing - to escape onto a Berg, a massive VTOL aircraft. Jorge reveals himself to be a pilot, and that Teresa, Aris, Frypan, and the other Gladers who are not with Thomas have escaped on one of the 3 Bergs. |
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Some guards break into the hangar, wielding Launchers (which fire electrical stun grenades) and pistols, but they escape. They fly to Denver, where Teresa and the others have gone. They are there to see a former WICKED neurologist who has escaped. While they are on their trip, they meet up with Gally, a previous Glader who tried to kill Thomas, and now a member of the Right Arm, an underground organization dedicated to destroying WICKED. |
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Hans performs an operation on Thomas, after a brawl with Thomas due to WICKED's attempt to control him, removing the implant in his brain that allows him to telepathically talk with Teresa and Aris and that lets WICKED monitor where he is. When the operation is completed, Brenda, Jorge, Minho, and Thomas go into a coffee shop to eat. When an infected man is discovered in the coffee shop, Thomas decides to stay and watch what is happening so he is kidnapped by the coffee shop guard. When he is about to get in his car, a flying law enforcement vehicle shoots the man down, and on the screen is Janson, who tells Thomas to come back to WICKED for Phase 3 of the Trials. |
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When the group arrives back at their Berg, they discover that Newt is missing. They find a note from Newt which states that some people found him and took him to a Crank sanctuary, where Cranks live before they go crazy. They go there to find Newt, but are told to go back without him. The entire visit Newt claims that Thomas failed him. A riot breaks out and a massive Crank escape occurs, with Thomas, Brenda, Jorge, and the others narrowly getting away in the Berg. After the Berg lands back at the airport, Thomas reads the letter that Newt gave him while they were escaping from the WICKED complex. It says, "'''Kill me. If you've ever been my friend, kill me.'''". Thomas realizes that Newt forced them to leave because Thomas had not followed the letter's directions. |
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Once they open the Berg's bay door, the group are captured by 3 bounty hunters who take them to a secure compound. There, they overpower the guards and find out that they work for the Right Arm. They also meet Teresa and the other subjects who were also captured by the same bounty hunters. Minho demands that they take Thomas and Brenda to their headquarters, where they want to speak to the leader of the Right Arm. A captive named Lawrence drives them there in a van. |
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While riding, some Cranks stop the car on the way to the HQ. After the car nearly breaks down, they reach the Right Arm headquarters. At the Right Arm's headquarters, they meet Vince, the leader of the Right Arm, and a friend of Gally. The Right Arm and Thomas plot an infiltration plan to get the Right Arm into the WICKED base. They plan to plant a device in WICKED's headquarters, which is just outside Denver, which will disable their soldiers' weapons (pistols and Launchers), allowing the Right Arm to capture the base. |
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Thomas volunteers to plant the device because WICKED wants him back for Phase 3 of the Trials. They agree on the plan and Thomas, along with a strike team of 80 men, are driven toward the Berg hangar. At one point while driving, Thomas sees Newt. Thomas gets out, and after a brief encounter, Thomas executes Newt, fulfilling his friend's last wish. They continue on, and Thomas is dropped off a few miles away from the base. He hikes in and is greeted by Janson. Thomas plants the device immediately and has to wait for 1 hour for the device to finish working. |
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During this time, Janson tells Thomas that he is the Final Candidate, and that WICKED needs to perform a fatal brain operation on him to finish the blueprint of the brain, ultimately leading to a vaccine and/or a cure for the Flare. Thomas tries to put off the operation for as long as possible but it is too late. While trying to buy time for himself, he discovers that Janson has contracted the Flare and that he is planning to do anything to complete the brain blueprint. Thomas is eventually saved by Chancellor Ava Paige, head of WICKED, who calls off the operation in favor of a different plan involving the Immunes to restart civilization after the Flare disappears. Chancellor Paige also gives Thomas a map of the compound to help him escape. Thomas discovers that the 500-600 Immunes that WICKED has gathered are being hidden inside the Maze. When attempting to rescue them, the Right Arm's explosives go off, hurrying their retreat. They make it to the maintenance room with the Flat Trans that Paige mapped out; where they meet the Flare-infected Janson and 6 other WICKED security guards. |
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The Immunes manage to overpower the guards and Thomas strangles Janson. When the maintenance room starts to collapse, a large piece of stone from the ceiling is about to crush Thomas when Teresa runs into him and gets crushed instead. They all travel through the Flat Trans and the Immunes are transported to "paradise". Only some of the original Gladers survived, such as Frypan, Minho, and Gally. |
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In the final WICKED memorandum by Chancellor Paige, she reveals that WICKED released the Flare from a quarantine zone as an attempt to control world population after the sun flare catastrophe and that they have tried to right their wrong by trying to create a cure and a vaccine. She also tells how in a last attempt to save mankind, she transported several Immunes (the Gladers) to a safe area, where they can begin to rebuild mankind. It ends with the quote: "As we tried to instill in each of our subjects over and over, '''WICKED is good.'''" |
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==Characters== |
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'''Thomas,''' a teenage boy who was a Runner in the Glade. He used to be able to speak telepathically with Aris and Teresa until he got the chip (that was installed into his head enabling him to speak telepathically) removed. He is immune to the Flare and is the main character throughout the series. |
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'''Newt,''' the leader of the Gladers after the former leader dies in the first novel. He is not immune to the Flare, has a slight limp and is Thomas and Minho's best friend. He is one of the five that travels with Thomas to Denver but is forced by his friends to stay in the Berg. The guards later ship him to Crank Palace, and eventually gets killed by Thomas. |
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'''Minho,''' the head Runner in the Glade. He is snarky and is a smart-aleck, which gets him in trouble frequently. He is best friends with Newt and Thomas. He is immune to the Flare and is one of the five who travels with Thomas to Denver. |
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'''Brenda,''' an older teenage girl from North Canada. She is described as pretty, with long blonde hair and dark black eyes. She is a former member of WICKED, like Thomas and Jorge. She is Immune to the Flare and is one of the five who travels with Thomas to Denver. She is also in love with Thomas. |
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'''Teresa,''' Thomas' best friend before and during their time spent in the Glade; she used to be able to speak telepathically with Thomas and Aris. Thomas no longer trusts her (or Aris) because of their actions of betrayal in the Scorch. She begs Thomas to trust her again, but Thomas doesn't. She is immune to the Flare but dies pushing Thomas out of the way of a falling boulder, which shows that she really could have been trusted and was telling the truth that WICKED wasn't controlling her. She dies seconds before the group makes it to paradise. |
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'''Aris,''' another boy who helped build WICKED. He used to be able to speak telepathically with Thomas and Teresa. Thomas doesn't trust him either after what happened in the Scorch. It is unknown if he made it to paradise. |
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'''Jorge,''' a Spanish man who (like Brenda) is a former member of WICKED. He is close to Brenda and is also immune to the Flare. He is also the pilot of the Berg who flies Thomas, Brenda, Minho and Newt to Denver. It is unknown if he made it to paradise. |
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'''Sonya,''' a member and leader of Group B. She becomes friends with Thomas and later she is one of the survivors. |
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'''Rat Man,''' (real name Janson), is a member of WICKED. He desperately tries to get Thomas to come back to WICKED and perform a fatal operation that would give WICKED his brain to study, to find a cure for the Flare (in which he has). He later goes insane and fights with Thomas. Thomas kills him by choking him. |
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'''Frypan,''' is the former cook on the glade. He is good friends with Thomas and Minho and is immune to the Flare. |
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'''Chancellor Paige,''' the leader of WICKED. When she realizes that WICKED will end, she sets up a Flat Trans that teleports the survivors to safety. |
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'''Gally,''' a former enemy of Thomas and a former glader , that is now second in command of Right Arm. He helps Thomas the others take down WICKED. He is immune to the Flare and later makes it to paradise. |
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'''Vince,''' the leader of Right Arm. |
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The survivors are: Thomas, Minho, Gally, Frypan, Brenda, and Sonya plus two hundred more Immunes. It is unknown if Aris and Jorge made it to paradise. |
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| Author | James Dashner[1] |
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| Pages | 336[1] |
| ISBN | [[Special:BookSources/978-0-385-73877-4%7F%27%22%60UNIQ--ref-00000005-QINU%60%22%27%7F |978-0-385-73877-4[1]]] Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
| Preceded by | The Scorch Trials[2] |
The Death Cure is the third book in the young-adult dystopian science fiction series, The Maze Runner Trilogy by James Dashner, following The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials. The novel was published October 11, 2011 by Random House Children's Books.[3]The trilogy is being shopped as a possible film series.
References
- ^ a b c d Death Cure Book info from Buy.com
- ^ Shill, Aaron (November 25, 2009). "'Maze Runner' on 'right track'". Deseret Morning News. Archived from the original on December 19, 2009. Retrieved December 19, 2009.
- ^ Goodreads Information