Book 3 Listicle

          The Maze runner has become much more popular since coming out with the movie. The Scorch Trials has especially become popular because people want to read the book before seeing the movie, which will be coming out next year. All of the books in this Trilogy are bound to prevail and sell multiple books. Here are five reasons that The Scorch Trials are interesting and what they tend to have in common with other books that a lot of people are reading now.

Reason 1: Thomas is the Hero

In this book Thomas learns that he is one of the real leader of his group, “Thomas, You’re The Real Leader” (Dashner page 207). He realizes that he has to do everything in his power to get his friends to safety, and has found out that he was one of the founders of the organization that has put him and his friends through everything that they have. Since Thomas helped create the organization he wants to help get his friends out. This is just like the Hunger Games when Katniss is the people from all of the District’s savior and the person who started the rebellion and has to work extremely hard in order to beat the people who have been controlling them for such a long time and help to save all of her friends and save Peeta from the Capital.

Reason 2: He is responsible for the start of everything

Thomas is responsible for the start of WICKED and putting his friends and him for all of these terrible things and he works as hard as he can and does everything in his power to help get his friends out of the mess he helped put them in. Katniss is responsible for starting a rebellion against the Capital and she feels that she has to save everyone that she can and to save everyone.

Reason 3: They fight for their lives

While in the scorch Thomas, Minho, Newt and all of the other gladers before they got saved from the second trials and they knew that they had to fight as hard as they could. “The monster let out a roar this time-a sound almost exactly like the haunted moans of the grievers-and dropped to the ground, thrashing its arms, trying to impale Thomas. Thomas spun away rolling three times as he heard metal tips scraping along the dirt-packed ground"(Dashner page 333).this is just like in the Hunger games when Latinas and her friends go after and fight for as long as they can to beat the capital and bring peace back to the districts

Reason 4: They play Games

The people who made the maze and put the Gladers through the scorch Trials, WICKED, are playing games with the Gladers. They are lying to them saying “He was safe now, rescued and delivered to this dormitory. No more worries. No more Grievers. No more death” (Dashner page 1). This quote shows how Thomas believed that him and the Gladers were finally safe and were done with the maze, when in reality WICKED was lying to them. This is just like in the book Divergent when the leader of Erudite tricks the Dauntless people and makes them go after the Abnegation with a serum.

Reason 5: They have a love Triangle

Thomas is in love with Teresa but when he comes to the Scorch she has to betray him and she breaks his heart. And so while he is in the Scorch he meets a girl named Brenda. She starts to fall for him and he does also. This is Just like in The Hunger Games when Katniss and Peeta have to “fall in love” but her best friend Gale has fallen for her and she feels bad for Peeta and Gale because she doesn’t think that she is as good enough for either of them and she doesn’t know what to do.

My topic matters because it shows just how similar it is to other books in this Genre. I think that The Maze Runner Series is the most closely related to The Hunger Games. They both have great plots and love triangles and heroes and everything that I think about when I want to read an action packed book with just a dab of love/romance.

 

 

How truthfull should a Non-fiction book be?

I think that in order for a book to be considered as Non-Fiction the book should be about 98% to 100% true. I think that if it is any less than it should not be considered Non-Fiction because if books can be considered Non-Fiction but have a pretty good amount of the book not true then what's the point of having a Fiction, Non-Fiction barrier? Oprah says that it is not right to say that everything in a book is true if it actually isn't true at all. I agree with her because if you say that all of it is true but we find out that some of it really isn't true then you begin to wonder if the rest of the book is a lie also.

I think that we do need to have lines between different genres. I think this because if there aren't lines and you need to use a book for a project you never really know if it is actually true or not. Also if you don't know what genre you are reading you will be really confusing. If I wanted to read a specific genre I would never know which book is that genre because they don't have a label. This is why I believe that David Shields is wrong. I also don't agree with Frey that half-truths are ok. I think that if you call a book a memoir, it should be a memoir not a book with a bunch of half-truths. A memoir is meant to be full of truth and what actually what happened not what sounds best. If a writer wants to make a book that sounds really good then make it Fiction.