1. Never Giving up with the Difficult Situation
Thomas‘ conflict between the Grievers proves that he has willingness to keep survive in any situation. He sees Alby and Minho try to return to the Glade,
but they do not have enough time. Thomas wants to help them, but he always remembers about the rule about not to enter the Maze. Thomas also does not know
anything about the Maze and how to defeat the Grievers, but he enters the Maze anyway to save Alby and Minho. However, Minho looks unhappy with Thomas
decision, b ecause he thinks that Thomas‘ help is useless. It is different with
Thomas who believes that there is a hope and there must be something that they can do in order to survive inside the Maze.
Thomas was annoyed at Minho‘s constant negativity. ―Oh, come on— there has to be something we can do. How many Grievers‘ll come at us?‖
He peered down the corridor that led deeper into the Maze, as if expecting the creatures to arrive then, summoned by the sound of their name
Dashner, 2009: 114.
Minho is the Keeper of the runner and he is supposed to know well about the Maze and know how to escape from the Grievers. However, they have pretty
much all lost hope, especially for Minho. He thinks that they will not survive in the Maze because the Grievers will chase them wherever they go and they will be
dead. You don‘t understand, shuck-face You don‘t know anything, and you‘re
just making it worse by trying to have hope We‘re dead, you hear me? Dead Dashner, 2009:117.
However, he gives up and decides to leave Alby and Thomas behind in order to save himself. In contrast, Thomas decides to stay with Alby and figure out a
solution so that both of them can survive from the Grievers. Surviving in the new place and without background knowledge about it is not an easy thing. However,
Thomas never gives up with his situation and keeps trying to find a way to save Alby who injured, though he knows that it is difficult. Thomas still has
willingness to survive and he does not surrender and does nothing though his plan does not work well.
However, when Thomas finds a way to trick the Grievers, Minho realizes that there is a way to survive the night and it makes him has hope again. Then,
they trick three Grievers into falling off the Cliff and Minho is shocked and said Minho sno
rted. ―Somehow we made it to sunrise, or we would‘ve had ten more on our butts before long.‖ He shifted his body, wincing and
groaning. ―I can‘t believe it. Seriously. We made it through the whole night
—never been done before‖ Dashner, 2009: 140. Even
though some of Thomas‘ ideas to escape from the Grievers are unsuccessful, he still struggles to look for a way to defeat the Grievers. Thomas‘ struggle is not
in vain, Minho and he finally find a way to defeat the Grievers and they successfully defeat all of Grievers which chase them.
Another situation is when Thomas promises himself that he will keep struggle to find a way to exit from the Maze on the day when he officially
becomes a runner. Tomorrow, his training would begin. Tomorrow, he could start helping
them find that missing something. Right then Thomas made a decision. Forget all the weird stuff. Forget all the bad things. Forget all. He wouldn‘t
quit until he‘d solved the puzzle and found a way home Dashner, 2009: 200.
Though there is no hope for Thomas‘ conflicts, he insists on not to give up. Thomas knows that it is dangerous to go out of there, but he does not let that to
stop his desire to help all of the Gladers from achieving freedom. They can be PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
victorious, even over their worst nightmares and they must have the courage to step out of their comfort zone.
2. Daring to Take a Risk for Our Goal
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