Fire on the Horizon

The Scorch Trials is the sequel of the series maze runner. After Thomas is able to escape the maze they finally feel safe and ready to start a different life. Till one night the wake up to the screams of strange looking humans, they seemed to be infected of something and are desperate to eat other people. The boys obviously freaked out but luckily the creatures could get into the dorms. And so their nightmare began, weird thing started happening like corpses hanging from the ceiling, Teresa disappearing, food appearing out of nowhere, but mostly a strange man sitting on a desk in the common area. He was there to inform the Gladers (the boys whom escaped the maze) that everything they just went through was planned by a organization called WICKED which purposes was to fight a critical disease that led the world into chaos. Now they must pass the phase two from their experiment as a motivation to complete this trial the man said that every glader had been infected with the virus named Flare and they will receive the cure if the complete phase two, The Scorch Trials. Now Thomas is filled with hatred towards WICKED, he won't complete the trial for the cure but for revenge of taking Teresa away from him and making his life hell.

During the instructions the man gave to the Gladers he said a few words which I believe that will be key to the book.

"If I can tell you anything today, it is that you should never, ever believe your eyes. Or your mind, for that matter." (pg 56)

I strongly believe that WICKED will start playing with everyone's psychological state driving them to insanity and the only thing that will keep them sane is keeping true to their gut. Since you can no longer trust what you see nor what you think. Making the chances of people surviving this phase very little.


Another quote I found pretty interesting and very important to the developing of the plot and mostly of the conflict.

"At that point, the Scorch Trial have begun . The rules are very simple. Find your way to the opened air then head due north for one hundred miles." (pg 60)

At this point the trials have been extremely complicated since it says they must look for opened air meaning that they will start in a confined and dark place, then they must head north one hundred miles that's like one hundred sixty kilometers. That's an insane amount of distance to travel by foot. And add to that the psychological manipulation, the trials will become very difficult to accomplish without mentioning any creatures they might find on their way to the goal



These trials will be nothing like what they've faced before since now they know they are being under constant watch and manipulation making their task trickier in many ways. They will fave to make many tough decision in which I believe they are a matter of life or death. I really think Thomas will have to go through many losses which will make his thought of revenge even more stronger making him lose his path of right and wrong