Breakdown of The Death Cure by James Dashner

ONE Sentence summary:
Armed with even more information, but refusing to gain back his memories, Thomas moves forward with the intention of stopping the madness before anyone else has to die.

TWO Things I would have done differently:
I would have given Thomas at least some of his memories back.
I would have provided more information on the exact timing of the phases of the disease.  

THREE Titles that if you liked...you will like this:


Breakdown of Maze Runner

Breakdown of Scorch Trials


FOUR Reasons to care:
1.) If the first second one is going to be a movie, the third will be too.
2.) This plot is completely different from either of the first two books. There seems to be no real “formula.”
3.) This book is also written well.  
4.) There is also a prequel: The Kill Order. Stay tuned for another breakdown.

FIVE Facts about the author:


Breakdown of Maze Runner

Breakdown of Scorch Trials

SIX Emotions I felt while reading:
Nervous, excited, stressed, mad, hopeful, frustrated, disappointed

SEVEN Thoughts:
1.) Why would they put kids through this?
2.) How scary can a past possibly be?
3.) What role do memories play in your beliefs in right and wrong?
4.) If a betrayal is explained, is it worth forgiving?
5.) How can you not trust your senses?
6.) When is it okay to give up?
7.) Are the lives of many worth the human race?

EIGHT Buzzwords:
apocalypse, adventure, tension, brain, trust, tests, subjects, scientists

NINE Plot device/writing techniques/tools/tricks:
1.) Third person limited point of view
2.) Information characters
3.) Clues, codes, breadcrumbs, trails
4.) Perception
5.) Timing
6.) Females vs males
7.) Short precise sentences to represent decisiveness.
8.) Paragraphs of questions to make the reader feel as if the author has no answers either.
9.) Healthy descriptions of emotions and worry.

TEN Point plot summary:
1.) Thomas starts to go crazy from being in isolation for the past three weeks. He exercises, eats, sleeps and thinks.
2.) He is released after being told he does have the Flare, but he is immune to it.
3.) He is given the option to get all of his memories back, but denies the opportunity, and instead decides to break out of WICKED along with his two best friends, Newt and Minho.
4.) The three team up with Brenda and Jorge, members of WICKED who they had teamed up previously in the Scorch. Together, the leave WICKED and head for Denver to meet up with Thomas’ old rival, Gally. Gally is the leader of the anti-WICKED movement called The Right Arm.
5.) It becomes apparent that WICKED can still control Thomas through a mind control device in Thomas’ head.
6.) Gally recommends a surgeon who left WICKED previously. There is a struggle before the attempt to remove the device.
7.) At a nearby coffee shop, Thomas witnesses the effect that knowing someone has the Flare has on society. Thomas gets captured and is about to get sold as an immune to WICKED. The others hatch a plan to get inside WICKED to deactivate all of WICKED’s weapons.
8.) The plan had Thomas voluntarily going back to WICKED to give himself up for the sake of the cure. His brain holds the key to the cure, but he has to die.
9.) As Thomas refuses, the explosives that The Right Arm planted explode and the building starts to collapse.
10.) WICKED’s plan fails. The laws of evolution prevail and slowly the immune build society back up.