Dear readers,
The theme I chose for this book was survival. I chose this theme for many reasons, mainly because that’s what the story is about. At the beginning of the book Thomas who is the main character is sitting in a Lift, and has no idea who he is except for what his name is. When he exits the lift there are many boys around his same age surrounding him. Each person experienced the same thing he did. They call them self’s the gladers and they have a leader and people who have different parts in the group. Some have to go off into the maze and look for food and other useful things. Others stay back and scavenge the area for things to use as weapons and useful stuff. This is what tells me that the theme of this book is survival.
Journal Entry
Dear journal,
Im not sure what the day is, but it is my first day in the Glade. Im not sure who these people are but it looks like they haven’t bathed in weeks. I have many questions for them, like how did I get here, and what is going on. No one answers me, they just say that I have now interred the glade. The leader of these new people I have come across is alby he seems to be much older than me and knows much more than everyone else, he must have been here for a while. This person named newt seems to be the second in command, he seems much more cooler than alby. Well everyone is telling me I need to get some sleep. I hope tomorrow I can get some more answers to my questions.
I chose this genre to go with my theme because it helps show what Thomas was thinking in his mind. Some difficulties I came across was what to say and what order to say it in because he has many questions once in the glade, and I only had a few ways to tell them.
Ten Ways To Survive In The Glade
1. Find other survivors
2. Get acquainted with those survivors
3. Make a leader
4. Make a plan to survive
5. Find a safe area to stay
6. Inside your safe area look for food
7. Find a useful water source that is clean
8. Gather items that can be used as weapons
9. Fortify your safe area
10. Figure out a way out of the glade
I chose this genre to go with my theme because it helps show the way the people in the glade somewhat survived. Some difficulties I came across was that I could not find 10 ways they did survive in the glade so I had to imagine what it was like for the first person in the glade had to survive.
Life Lesson List In The Glade
1. Work as a team
2. Think about everyone
3. Share food and water
4. Don’t lose faith
5. Remain calm
I chose this list to tell how many of the glade runners were when in the glade. I couldn’t find many life lessons in the book but I used a lot of information in the story to form this list .
I chose these pictures for this collage because it shows what should be needed to survive a disaster situation. I had trouble finding some good pictures to use for a survival collage and decided to use these pictures to best show survival.
