The Death Cure Themes

The Death Cure Themes

Death and Suffering

You know what would make the Trials a whole lot easier? If Thomas didn't have to see his only friends in the whole world get crushed by stones, stabbed by knives, and blasted by lightning bolts. It...

Madness

Okay, so in The Death Cure, there are people walking around the streets with a brain-eating disease that's slowly destroying mankind. This brain-eating disease causes them to actually start going i...

Lies and Trust

You know the phrase Two wrongs don't make a right? Well, something similar applies to WICKED in The Death Cure: two lies do not make a truth, contrary to what they might believe. Almost everything...

Memory

All around me are familiar faces... Because he was stung by a Griever and went through the Changing, Thomas experiences quick flashbacks of what his life was like before he had his memory Swiped. A...

Manipulation

We've seen WICKED manipulate the Gladers in the Maze and then in the Scorch, but now, in The Death Cure, it's time to see what happens when WICKED throws our heroes into the real world. Whenever so...

Morality and Ethics

Yeah, the whole putting kids through emotional, traumatic, and deadly Trials just to test out their brain patterns might be something to think about in your ethics class. In The Death Cure, the WIC...

Hate

There's bound to be some hatred going on in the world of the Gladers. Come on, people are dying left and right from a virus let out by the government, and WICKED is doing ridiculous, fatal experime...

Friendship

Why can't we all just get along? Well, in The Death Cure, friendship trumps everything—even suffering, sadness, and death.Because their memories have been wiped, the Gladers have only known one p...