Connor Patterson’s Reviews > The Death Cure > Status Update

Summary: The main character in my book is Thomas. The book is about kids who have to find a cure for a disease that turns people bad. The book's setting is in a world called the scorch. The events take place when the character blows up the facility. They blow it up because the cure is in the place. The story is a chronological narrative.

Visualize: When I'm reading, I visualize where the setting is. One example of a setting is on page 287 where it says, "I found them in the maze." What I would picture from a maze is, a big and old puzzle that has lots of moss, and there are secret traps to try and escape. When a character named Chuck got shot and killed, I felt very sad. I then had a very weird gut feeling after reading that,

Making connections: I am making a connection book to the world. The world and the book both have bad people and a disorganized government. The bad people in our world have committed crimes, and the bad people in the book are people with a disease that make them act like terrible people. Our government doesn't always make a good choice, and their government is against the people trying to find the cure for the people.

Characterization: The character that I selected was Minho. Minho feels very angry because his best friend Newt, became crazy and they had to leave him behind. Minho does a lot of running because he was a runner and he enjoys it. He says very crazy planes because he always likes to take risks. The character thinks that he always gets misheard and not listened to.

Antagonist: The antagonist in is book is WICKED. WICKED is an organization that runs tests on humans to find a cure for a disease, they are evil because they run the test that will kill most of the people. WICKED is trying to catch Thomas and his friends because they escaped the test. I know this because on page 97 it says, "WICKED killed Chuck, how could you do that to a kid like that."

Static vs. Dynamic: Thomas is a dynamic character who was very shy, not confident, and very curious. I know this because on page 35 it says, "Thomas backed away when they called him up." This shows that he backed down and was scared. Now he is the leader of his group coming up with an escape plan to try to escape from WICKED.