She’s the one from Thomas’s dream-memory.

The tribe is divided over whether Thomas is causing the new problems, with the Grievers attacking during the day, or if the changes he brings are offering them some hope of escaping the maze.įirst Pinch Point: A girl is put into the Glade for the first time.

Later, the boys figure out that a piece of the Griever indicates that the people who put the boys in the Maze also made the Grievers. He manages to kill it using the Maze itself-something no one has ever done before. While inside the Maze, Thomas encounters a Griever for the first time. Thomas rushes out to help, defying the tribe’s rules that only Runners can go through the doors. He fails to make it back into the Glade before the giant doors shut for the night. Thomas has a dream about his past and remembers a girl he used to work with.įirst Plot Point: The tribe’s leader, Alby, is stung by a Griever while trying to find the boy exiled into the Maze. The fact that one of the Runners, who searches the Maze for a way out, was attacked during the daytime by a normally-nocturnal Griever, is cause for even greater concern. Due to the Griever venom, he becomes violently crazed, and the tribe forces him into the Maze where it is expected the Grievers will finish him off. Inciting Event: One of the tribe is stung by a Griever, a half-mechanical monster that roams the Maze surrounding the relatively safe Glade, in which the young men live out their days.

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