In the 3rd book of the
Maze Runner Series the Death Cure, I believe
that Thomas is a hero in the book. I believe that he is an epic hero. I think
this because he is on this long and treacherous journey trying to help find a
cure for a terrible plague that has taken over the entire world. He is battling
with a terrible company called WICKED, who says that they are trying to help
find a cure for this disease which is called the Flare. The flare is a virus
that eats at the rational part of your brain. After you have the disease for
long enough you go crazy never knowing what is right or wrong, rational or
irrational. WICKED told everybody that they would find a cure if they had all
of the money and the people who are immune.
They made these “trials” to
supposedly help find a cure but in reality they just wanted an excuse to
torture, destroy and murder a bunch of kids. They tore them away from their
families. Thomas was taken from his family when he was just a young boy and had
worked for WICKED for a very long time, thinking that he was doing the right
thing but during the Maze trials Thomas got put into the maze and saw first-hand
how bad the trials were and how bad it was affecting the people in the maze. When
he got his friends and himself out of the maze they had to go through yet
another trial The Scorch Trials. This
was where Thomas and his friends met people who helped them through the maze
and then to escape from WICKED headquarters. When they finally got out they
found a group called the Right Arm who hated WICKED just as much as they did.
They joined up with the Right Arm to help them defeat WICKED and get back their
money to try to help save everybody else from obtaining the disease.
Thomas is an epic hero because he
has no super powers but he is very brave and he will do anything to save his
friends even if it means he has to go back to the place that he hates and
escaped from. An example of this is “’ you can drop me off a few miles away and
let me hike in. I’ll pretend I’ve come back to finish the Trials.’”(Dashner
page 238) This quote shows how he knew
that he was going to have to go back to the place he fled from but he wants to
take them down so badly that he will go back to help the Right Arms chances at
winning. If Thomas had not agreed to go back to WICKED to help save the rest of
his country and the Right Arm then they would not have been able to help stop
WICKED from ruining more kid’s lives and wasting more money.
Thomas was so ready to help the
Right arm stop WICKED from hurting anybody else that he was not prepared to see
his buddy Newt with a bunch of Cranks or people who have the Flare. He
contracted the Flare during The Scorch trials. He was just standing in the
middle of the rode staring at Thomas. Newt was so mad at Thomas because he had
asked him to kill him but Thomas couldn’t kill one of his best friends. An
example of this is “’KILL ME!’ And then Newt’s eyes cleared as if he’d gained
one last trembling gasp of sanity, and his voice softened. ‘Please Tommy.
Please.’ With his heart falling into a black abyss, Thomas pulled the trigger.”(Dashner
page 250) This quote shows how Newt was pleading Thomas to put him out of his
memory but Thomas couldn’t do it unless he looked away from him.
I believe that Thomas is an epic
hero because he does not have super powers but he goes on a great journey, he
has a bunch of friends (allies) who help him, he is smart, brave, and he
overcomes his fears to try and protect his friends.
