So Their is a boy NAmed Thomas who is sent to the Glade ( The home of Many juvenile boys) by a group named W.I.C.K.E.D (World In Catastrophe Killzone Experiment Department). The Glade is a big courtyard surrounded by a maze that is "impossible" to escape from. He arrives in an elevator knowing nothing but his name and is freaked out to see sunlight and people for the first time in weeks. Thomas then meets the leaders Newt and Alby who shows Thomas around. After the first few days of getting used to the Glade, the box starts to go off which is very unusual because it only arrives once a month. This was one very special delivery due to the fact that it brought up no supplies and a girl. The Glade is a home to boys only and many of them forgot what girls looked like. Her name is Teresa and the first thing she says is "Thomas" and then goes into a week long coma. After Newt and A boy named Gally (Thomas and Gally Do not get along) search the box and find a note left by Teresa. It reads "she is the last one, Ever" So by now all the Gladers are worried because they will no longer have any new supplies or kids. While Teresa is in Coma, she is telepathically talking to Thomas. He is super freaked out until he accepts that their brains can do this. Thomas one night goes out into the maze to save a boy named Minho and Alby. Going in the maze is the most important rule in the Glade that everyone must follow. Every night the walls to the maze close forcing you to stay out in the maze where these monsters called Grievers live. Grievers are half monster half machine. They are super violent and have crazy spiked that sting you. If you get stung, you have to through the changing which is were you get all these crazy pictures in your head and you regain flashes of your memory. Nobody has ever survived a night in the maze before because the grievers kill you. But Thomas, Minho, and Alby were the first people in Glade history to ever survive in the maze. They not only survived, but killed a griever and found a clue on how to leave the maze! They find what is called a Griever hole. It is the home of the Grievers and inside has a computer to turn off the grievers and allow access to wicked headquarters. Once Thomas and all gladers willing to risk their lives to escape the Glade are ready to leave, the begin running toward the Griever hole and instantly start battling grievers. Some Gladers died but many more survived and made it into the Griever hole. Thomas enters the code and they instantly go down a shoot and find themselves in the lab of Wicked! The lab is destroyed and right then Gally pulls out a gun and tries to kill Thomas! He is saved by a boy named Chuck who is Thomas's best friend in the glade. Chuck takes the bullet for Thomas and saves his life. Right then S.W.A.T comes in and takes them to a special room that has nice food, air conditioning, and electricity! The next morning Thomas realizes something is terribly wrong. So wrong that it requires the next book to be understood,