The Kill Order Themes

The Kill Order Themes

Madness

Ugh, why all the madness? Why all the crazy people? Well, it's because of the Flare. The Flare is everywhere—we're poets and we know it.In The Maze Runner series, we get to see pretty close-up wh...

Hatred/Rage

Don't you just get angry when people fly into your village on an airship and shoot everyone with darts filled with poison? It's so annoying. Okay, so maybe you've never experienced what our main ch...

Spirituality

Yup, there's a lot of spiritual business happening in The Kill Order. Mostly, it's from the crazies who desert Deedee and end up capturing her, Trina, and Lana. But spirituality isn't all demon non...

Suffering

Honestly, who doesn't suffer in this series?From the original Creators to the Gladers to the Cranks to our main characters in The Kill Order, everyone suffers in the Maze Runner trilogy. But for so...

Memory and the Past

Just like how Thomas has memory-dreams in the first three books of the Maze Runner trilogy, Mark has memory-dreams in The Kill Order… except Mark remembers everything. Every detail, every feeling...

Morality and Ethics

To kill or not to kill… that is the question. All right Hamlet. Easy there, big guy. So maybe that's not exactly what Hamlet said in his famous soliloquy, but that's what a lot of our characters...

Courage

Warning: this book isn't for scaredy-cats.Characters in The Kill Order tend to be pretty insanely brave, especially given the situations they're put in. (We think we'd probably cower in a corner.)...

Friendship

You know that song by Bruno Mars where he claims he'd catch a grenade for someone? Well, that's a scenario that's more than possible in The Kill Order. And all of our main characters would not only...