Supplies stop arriving, and the walls stop closing, compromising their protection from the Grievers. The end to life in the Glade is triggered when they all awaken one day to the absence of what they thought was a sun, and the fact that they exist in a fabricated place seems more apparent.

Because no one has ever survived before, Thomas becomes a hero and then is promoted to Runner. Miraculously, Thomas and the two runners survive their night in the Maze by outwitting several Grievers. 1 rule to never leave the Glade at night, he squeezes through the walls at the last second, and he is terrified to find himself in the dark silence of the Maze. As the walls nearly finish closing, Thomas sees the two runners but realizes they wonвЂ™t make it. One evening, as time draws near for the walls to close between the Maze and the Glade, two of the runners have not returned. Later, when Teresa emerges from her coma, Thomas discovers that Teresa can communicate telepathically with him, and they deduce that they must have known each other before their arrival. She remembers that she is being sent as a trigger to begin the end of life in the Glade. Nearly comatose, Teresa has little memory remaining, and it is quickly fading. But on ThomasвЂ™ second day, the elevator brings a teen girl. He feels driven to be a Runner.Д®very month, a new boy arrives in the elevator. Thomas notices that parts of his new life somehow seem familiar, with fleeting impressions of memories just out of reach. The group has been working for two years to figure a way out of the Maze. Runners are the boys who daily run through the Maze, and when they return just before night, they map the section they ran since each night the walls move, reconfiguring the Maze. Thomas spends his first couple of days learning the ropes and various work positions, such as Baggers and Sloppers.

He is the only one to offer Thomas friendship. The few boys who have undergone the Changing say they have seen Thomas in it, and they are convinced that he is bad or perhaps a spy.Д¬huck, the youngest in the compound, is assigned to Thomas to help him acclimate. The boys call it the Changing - when part of the victimвЂ™s memory returns - but those who have lived through the Changing all agree that the real world is one they donвЂ™t want to return to. If the victim returns to the Glade in time, he can be injected with a serum that saves his life but it causes a strange, painful process. Occasionally a Griever stings one of the boys. Entrances to the maze automatically close at the same time every night, which protect the Glade from Grievers - large part-animal, part-mechanical monsters that bite, sting and sometimes kill. In an artificial environment built as an experiment by unknown, unseen scientists called Creators, they live in the Glade, and their lives revolve around trying to solve the Maze, a gray stone structure with walls hundreds of feet high. He finds he is part of a community of about 50 teen boys called Gladers, and all share the same pattern of memory loss. Feeling drugged, Thomas wakes up in an elevator car with no memory except his name.

The maze runner book series