Blog Post #6

Movie and Book adaptation I chose was The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. When I read the book I judged it based off the book before it: The Maze Runner. I shouldn't have done that well because I hate it when I compare it to another book in the set because of course they're not all the same and they won't have the same expectations.

The sequel follows Thomas and his Gladers as they escape a facility that they thought was safe and into "the scorch," a sandblasted, barren wasteland of danger and creatures called Cranks. As they attempt to find safety with a group called "The Right Arm," they meet some frenemies, run into deadly storms, try to avoid being infected by a disease called "the flare," and all the time, they are trying to slip from the grasp of the people who captured them in the first place: WCKED

When I read The Scorch Trials, I loved how Teresa wasn't in it till the end. I never liked her. I understood that she played a vital role in book 1 but there was no point to her character after she delivered the message to Thomas. In the book, Teresa is upset about something. She tells Thomas that he and the others need to stay away from her. She isn’t present very much after that. She spends her time communicating with Thomas telepathically, pretending to betray him. She’s actually working with WICKED and Aris. In the movie this doesn’t happen. 

When I saw the movie, I was really upset because they had her in the movie more than what was written.

In the book, Thomas ends up getting locked in a gas chamber but in the movie, it didn't happen. I was eager to see how that was played out but I never got to.

     Overall I loved both. If you put the movie aside from the book then it was pretty amazing. The changes in the movie from the book I thought made more sense as it was easier to play out. In writing, pretty much anything and everything can happen but in movies or TV series only so much can be put out and still seem realistic. I wasn't disappointed when I saw all these changes. I was excited as to see what would come next in the last of the trilogy.


"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." Winston Churchill