The maze is gigantic and the fifty boys who are caught in it live on a farm in the middle of the maze, an area called the Glade. The only thing Thomas can recall is that he must solve the Maze to save himself and the other Gladers. His memory has been wiped, as have all the memories of the Gladers, the teenagers who inhabit the maze. Thomas, the sixteen years old hero, remembers nothing about himself except his name. Quite in contrast, The Maze Runner kicks off directly in the middle of the trial and as the title says, a seemingly unsolvable maze must be solved.
In The Hunger Games the hero, Katniss Everdeen, and the world the story plays in, Panem, are introduced at the beginning and only later in the book the actual trials start. Firstly, the setting is a post-apocalyptic world with an authoritarian regime, secondly a young teenage hero or heroine decides to fight against the rulers, and finally the heroes are being tested in a trial and have to fight for life or death. The similarities between The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner are striking. The Maze Runner is the first book in a trilogy written by the American author James Dashner.
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