Chapter 45-48

In chapter forty-five, Minho and Thomas decided to return early because there weren’t any changes to the Maze so far. When they arrived to Glade Thomas received a telepathic message from Teresa telling him to come and see the codes. When Thomas and Minho arrive Teresa told them that the codes are FLOAT, CATCH, BLEED, DEATH, STIFF, and PUSH. The codes have been repeated in the maps. Yet they still don’t know what the codes mean.

 As nightfall came the Grievers once again broke through the barricades and terrorized everyone and took someone. But before they could leave Thomas jumped on the back of one of the Griever and attacked it. The other three Grievers surrounded Thomas and stung him multiple times with their needles. Thomas didn’t want to be taken away, so he jumped off the griever and ran from them as fast as he could. As he ran he passed out in front of Newt who took him inside and gave him the serum. Thomas whispered ‘Don’t worry, I did it on purpose.’ Hoping someone heard him.

                In chapter forty-seven, Thomas had no idea how much time has gone by as he was going through the changing. He felt as if he was in a vacuum not able to use his senses. Then he felt a sudden rush of memories flood into his mind. Then everything else turned into pain.

                 Thomas heard chuck’s voice and woke up seeing him crying in joy to see Thomas awake.  Thomas told Chuck to quickly call a Gathering. Thomas then told Teresa that he remembered some of the things they did to the Gladers which were mainly horrible. As Thomas was walking to the gathering he saw Newt. Newt knew why Thomas jumped on the Grivers and he wanted to know some of the memories that he got back. Thomas told Newt that everything was a test. The Creators were weeding out the weak from the start.

                While I was reading I didn’t really think about what they’ll do with the codes once they got them. Know the book got me wondering about how they’ll use the codes. I can’t believe that Thomas would do something as risky as that. He could have been mauled to death or the Grievers could have dragged him into the Maze. But once he said I did it on purpose it reminded me about earlier in the book when Newt forced Thomas to remember things, Newt said that he would even risk Thomas getting stung by a Griever to remember something during the Changing. When Thomas revealed to Newt that the Creators were weeding out the week people from the stronger, it reminded me of my biology class and how my teacher said that Darwin’s explanation of evolution is “survival of the fittest” and how the stronger one will survive and the weaker ones will die.