Universal Storytelling Elements Movies, such as The Maze Runner, follow an extremely similar chain of events in comparison to other stories of the same genre. The Maze Runner takes the prototype storytelling strategy of dystopian societies, and creates a feel similar to the recognized short story called “The Lottery”. The story begins with a teenage boy arriving at an open field surrounded by walls far too high to reach. This boy instantly found himself at the center of many other boys of the same age who seem to be completely used to people showing up there. While this may seem like a simple story, the detail added to The Maze Running that gives the unique feel is that everybody in the field were also somehow forced into this …show more content…
Most of these traditions are crazy from the perspective of the audience. Rather than doing what is obviously the best option to the audience (and/or the characters), the leader of this fictional society will to stick to what they know without even considering anything else. There is usually one person, in this case Thomas, who shows everyone else the best way of doing something, which everyone soon follows. These order-of-events contain the elements of the prototype that The Maze Runner, along with many other dystopian-based stories, follows. Specific examples of these elements within The Maze Runner are seemingly obvious. Everyone but the “runners” must stay inside the field with no exceptions. Without seeing this movie, this may be a bit hard to understand, but everyone inside the maze has a specific job and the “runners” are the people with the responsibility of leaving their home (the field) and exploring the maze with hopes of finding an escape route. Regardless of how bad anyone wants to help the runners, or even take a glance at what everyone is supposed to be so afraid of, no one may to do it. This is a bit strange is it not? Well in reality, the “leader” of this society seems to be a bit “strange”. Shortly after Thomas arrives into the maze, he has a conversation with a kid named Newt about why the field’s society functions the way that it does, which sparks some serious “red flags”. Newt explains the jobs that exist to Thomas so he can get a better grasp of everything, and explains some of the others personalities. The “leader” is a person named Alby, who has been stuck there the longest, yet it does not seem like he is actually the one running everything. Alby does have the final say, but a person named Gally seems to have the most control over everyone and this becomes easy to recognize even before this conversation takes place. Newt soon