How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
They'd wiped his memory and put him inside a gigantic maze. It was all so crazy it really did seem funny. (4.39)
No, it'd only be funny if they solved the maze and found a huge block of cheese. But really, have you ever been in a maze? It can feel like the whole world has been squashed down into the few yards of space surrounding you, and then you turn a corner and the world has gotten even smaller.
Quote #5
It felt as if the whole earth shook; he looked around, panicked. The walls were closing. The walls were really closing—trapping him inside the Glade. An onrushing sense of claustrophobia stifled him, compressed his lungs, as if water filled their cavities. (4.48)
Confinement in and of itself can be horrifying. That's why there are so many claustrophobic people in the world.
Quote #6
Thomas looked around one more time, the feel of the place completely different now that all the walls were solid with no way out. He tried to imagine the purpose of such a thing, and he didn't know which guess was worse—that they were being sealed in or that they were being protected from something out there. (4.57)
Option three: being sealed in with the somethings from out there. Bam.