Comparing Divergent And The Maze Runner
My two novels, Divergent and The Maze Runner, have many similarities that I
would like to discuss. Firstly, both novels focused on being thrust into a brand new
world that the characters were not used to. Thomas(The Maze Runner
protagonist)started off the book with him waking up inside of a cargo box, traveling
upwards at an incredibly high speed, and with only the memory of his name. When
Tris decided to join the Dauntless, she immediately had to adapt and change, from
jumping from trains and buildings to fighting someone until submission or
decommission. To add onto that, despite being both unfamiliar with their new lives,
they were able to adapt fairly quickly with Tris being first in the second and third
round of initiation, and... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
Thomas started from a person who was scared, confused, and curious, into the one
who led them out of the maze and one of the most important Gladers. On the other
hand, Tris was a quiet Abnegation girl who was struggling to fit into Dauntless.
Eventually though she became one of the bravest people in the story, fending off
multiple Dauntless soldiers and stopping the Erudite. There were also, quite
obviously, going through very different situations. While, Tris had to fight her way to
the top ten, hide her Divergence, and save an entire faction, Thomas was trying to
figure out what his flashbacks meant, how he could get out of the maze, and why he
had so much responsibility. Based on all of this information, I believe that dystopian
fiction really seems to focus on themes of sacrifice, friendship, and most important of
all, overthrowing the system . For example, another dystopian fiction novel that has
all three of these themes is The Hunger Games. In the Hunger Games, Katniss, the
protagonist, risks her life for her sister s wellbeing, makes alliances with other
tributes and rebels, and attempts to overthrow the Capitol. The main plot point of
Divergent was to stop the Erudite, the most power hungry of all five factions. Finally,
Thomas stops WICKED, a group of scientists that experimented on the Gladers.
During all three of these dystopian fiction novels the protagonists and their friends