To be honest, his bad attitude actually becomes kind of funny, and Dashner plays this personality trait up to his character's advantage. Every time he predicts that everyone will die horrible deaths, we're all, Ha, he's at it again. Every time he says something sad, we're all, Oh, that Thomas, always being a Debbie Downer. Still, it's all of these depressing thoughts make Thomas the oddly lovable character he is. If being dead might be a lot easier," won't give us a very positive attitude while we're reading" (5.14). That means that we're stuck reading thought after thought like this one: "Sometimes I wonder. The biggest problem with Thomas being a sad-sack all of the time, of course, is that he's our protagonist, and this is a totally limited third-person narrative, so we're always in this dude's head. After all, in his words, "The whole world sucks" (12.7). He might be some kind of chosen one when it comes to WICKED's plans, but he's always the first one to point out that the kids' lives aren't all that great. Thomas is the downest Debbie, the most negative Nancy, the ultimate pessimistic Patty. That's what Minho has to say about our hero, Thomas-and there are some pretty good reasons why he might think so. "You're one depressing piece of klunk, slinthead" (9.19).
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