Rules and Order:
Rules and Order are crucial to any society whether it’s big or small. Without rules, or even guidelines, people would take advantage of the situation and go crazy. Order played a crucial role in The Maze Runner because it was the base of the whole experiment. The point of the experiment was to see if the boys were able to uphold a functional society on their own, which they did. This would not have been possible without Alby and Newt taking charge of the town and running it with strict laws enforced. The society would not have functioned without rules. Not only would the town not have functioned, but none of the boys would have survived without the laws set in place. They had to survive by being a working society, that was their only way out, since that was what the experiment was meant for. WICKED would not let them live unless they worked together as a group, made sacrifices, and showed bravery. These three characteristics combined, complete the foundation of a functional society.