Burnt Hope

As soon as the Gladers step towards the portal they discover they are on a confined tunnel, completely empty and completely dark. The darkness was so intense that even though the Gladers knew they were among other people they could see them nor themselves. After hours of walking by pressing their bodies to the right side of the tunnel, a scream is heard from the front of the line it seemed the a glader fell and when thomas went to check it out he sensed that his head had been chopped of and has been replaced with a solid metal sphere. As soon as he informed of what had occurred to their fellow Glader they all freaked out and ran searching for an exist, though many glader got caught by that metal sphere no one stopped until they found a staircase. As they open the door the light hit their eyes as a hot blaze that made the eye of every one burn since they were used to the darkness. Still they wrapped around their bedsheets around their head since the chose the sun over instant death. As they walked for days in the dry and arid desert their supplies started to run low and the ruin of a city appeared on the horizon. The evening they were supposed to arrive to the city a female agonizing scream could be heard over the distances it was such a horrible sound it made it unbearable to walk without something to block the noise. Then on the top of a fallen building a female silhouette appeared, Thomas instantly knew it was Teresa, her pose, her hair everything as he remembered. So he went alone to investigate the building but he found an empty room filled with darkness till the voice of Teresa appeared, telling him to stay back. Then a candle lit and he saw her all cleaned up and with all her hair well done she seemed incredibly scared and broke to tears as she hugged Thomas. She instantly pulled back and told him to ran away, as fast as he can because their is something dangerous coming. Thomas wanted to take her with him but she resisted and ran away alone. As soon as he left the building to warn the others thunder stroke in the distance but this was no regular storm there barely was any rain it was just lighting everywhere and a wind that suffocated. The Gladers ran as fast as they could to the nearest building but many suffocated and others got stroke by lightings. And so the reached the building with only ELEVEN Gladers out of the FIFTY from which they started with.



A part of the story I really enjoyed reading was when Thomas finally found Teresa in the ruins of that building, and the author did an splendid job of forming Teresa's image in the readers head. 

"She was clean, every part of her. He'd expected her to be filthy like he must be after all this time in the dusty desert. He'd expected greasy hair and a smudged and sunburned face. But instead she wore fresh clothes, her clean hair cascaded to her shoulders. Nothing marred the pale skin of her face or arms. She was more beautiful than he'd ever seen her in the Maze, than any memories he could pull from the murky group of what he recovered after the Changing. But her eyes sparkled with tears her lower lip trembled with fear her hands shook at her sides, he saw recognition in her eyes, saw that she hadn't forgotten him again , but behind that here was pure and absolute terror." (pg 115)f
This builds a pretty strong image of Teresa in ones head, on;y by using Imagery author is able build a strong expression on a fictional character. Making it seem almost real.

Another quote I think that was very important to the story and will make thing more tragic is when Teresa finally speaks to Thomas warning them to go away that it is too dangerous for them to be there. 
"Get away from me Tom,' she said 'All of you need to get away...from me. Don't argue. Just leave me. Run.' Her neck tensed with the effort to get those last few words out."  
  If  it wasn't for Teresa's last words maybe all of the gladers would have died in the lighting storm, but was that WICKED's plan or wasn't it, maybe Teresa broke some rule and warned them about what they were up against, and if  so she will be punished making it for Thomas much more important to reach the end in order to know what happened to her, does she have the virus too, is she being manipulated by WICKED? many are the question Thomas wonders about her, day and night


I strongly believe that the quest from now on will get harder since they've arrived into an unknown city in which the infected people called Cranks live in. And they are their dinner, but with the big loss of Gladers they've suffer it will be hard to protect themselves. And they hardly know where they are and hardly know the city. They will be easy prey for the Cranks unless the Cranks can sense that they've been infected too. Then they will have no problem getting through the city, since they are only supposed to go north. But how are they supposed to reach the destination with such little supplies their water sources are almost empty and the road up ahead looks dry and very hot. How will the replenish their supplies, are there supplies in the ruins of a city?