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Chapter 29
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Maze Runner, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Memory and Identity
Stability and Order vs. Change and Chaos
Sacrifice
Growing Up
Hope
Sexism
Summary
Analysis
In a concrete building north of the Homestead, Newt lets Thomas into the jail cell. There is only one rickety wooden chair and nothing to do. After a few hours of intense boredom, Chuck arrives with Thomas’ lunch. He says no one has found Gally yet but that Alby is up and around.
Chuck tells Thomas that when he first arrived, he cried every night out of fear and desire to go home. Chuck asks Thomas if he think he has good parents, ones who miss him now that he is gone. This makes Thomas angry at the Creators for putting them in the Glade and depriving Chuck of a normal life. Thomas assures Chuck that he has parents who care about him. Thomas promises Chuck that he will get him home.
Thomas still doesn’t accept that he is one of the Creators, so he directs his anger outwards at the other Creators rather than at himself. Thomas also tries to give Chuck hope, a necessity for survival, by promising that he will get him back to his parents.
Themes
