Thomas from " The Scorch Trials"

In the story The Scorch Trials a boy named Thomas and a group of boys get put into the Scorch, a sizzling place in Mexico,  with a mission. Their mission is to get to the mountains on the other side of the scorch. The reward is the cure to the disease that they supposedly have. Thomas is an immense part of their survival in the mission. He may not be the leader, but he sure does solve a lot of their problems.

Thomas is a very brave boy who won't back down from a challenge. He isn't formally known as the leader of the group, but he sure does place a big impact on the other boys. During the book Minho, one of the boys, gets in a fight with someone they just met named Jorge. Thomas breaks it up so that he can discuss his problem with Jorge. Thomas is free willing to try and get as much help as he can get to get the cure. Overall Thomas’s attitude at the beginning of the book is outgoing and fun to be around.

While Thomas may be brave, nothing can conquer the fear of a gun. Thomas and his friend Brenda’s luck was running out. When they woke up from their rest in the city they were ambushed. One of attackers had a gun which made it practically impossible to escape. They were held for questioning in a secret underground. Before they could ask many questions Minho and the rest of the gang barged in to save them. Unfortunately  on the way out of the bunker the guy with the gun managed to shoot Thomas in the shoulder. After a few long moments of pain he blacked out. The last thing he saw was a hovercraft in the sky.

When he woke up he was laying on a table with lights all around him. He heard people talking about him. He heard things like “Should we have done that?” and “let’s hope it doesn’t affect the variables”. Thomas had to figure it was Wicked, the people who gave him the mission in the first place. He wasn’t very happy with them. They erased his memory and took his girlfriend Teresa away. He knew that he would have to get revenge on them. They had changed him from a fun outgoing person into a trustless boring person.

Thomas' personality is a lot like Katniss's from the hunger games. They are both very brave people with great personalities. One of their similar qualities are their hunting skills. They are both good athletes. One of the other things they have in common is the feeling of loss. Katniss lost her dad when he died in a mining accident. Although Thomas didn't exactly lose his dad, he just didn't know who his dad was due to the fact that Wicked erased his memory. The last thing the two have in common is their great leadership. Their leadership skills include organization, bravery, and responsibility. Overall these characters are similar in a lot of ways.

The Scorch has a lot of problems for Thomas and the rest of the group to conquer. These events have defiantly changed Thomas. Thomas shouldn’t have had to take a bullet just for Wicked to gather information about people. Wicked is a gruesome company who shouldn’t exist. They changed an innocent boy from a good person to someone who couldn’t even trust his girlfriend. Overall Wicked needs to be destroyed so Thomas can get back to his normal state.