Analysis Of Ernest Cline's Ready Player One

Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous explains multiple theories, such as nature versus nurture, and survival of the fittest. This short story also seems to have an underlying theme of Social Darwinism (Of Two Classes). Throughout the entirety of the short story, Connell shows a character change of a main character, Rainsford, who is at a constant battle with General Zaroff, the antagonist. This character change shows the importance of the mindset of characters, and how it can be applied to everyday life.

What is the point of literary devices in stories, books, and poems? What do they accomplish? Could you use them properly if you knew what they were? In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, author Richard Connell uses many of these devices, namely: simile, metaphor, personification, imagery, foreshadowing, irony, and allusion. Some well used devices in this story are personification and irony.

Released in 2011, Ready Player One is ann interesting read about a young man struggling with the fictional state of the world in the year 2044. The world is starving for resources, and the remaining resources are slowly dwindling. Jobs are scarce in the real world, and the land between cities is barren and desolate. Travelling between cities is dangerous, because there are gangs and raiders that attack helpless travelers. The world is a unfriendly and harsh place, and most tend to avoid it. The majority of the human race in this novel spend their time in a virtual reality device, called the OASIS.

There are two ways. Two ways to foreshadow that someone’s going to die, or another person is going to run away, or anything else that’s unexpected in a novel. Different ways of foreshadowing are used in all kinds of genres and books. It urges the mysteries to be solved. Rainsford from “The Most Dangerous Game” is taken to an island that many sailors have superstitions about.

When taking any English class starting in high school, it is expected that the student will have to read at least one novel. I was somewhat excited that Ready Player One by Ernest Cline was the required novel for the class because it seemed interesting and I was already expecting a book to read. The story takes place in 2044, in a post-apocalyptic world due to an energy crisis. The main character, Wade Watts, escapes into the virtual reality created in the OASIS. When the game’s creator, James Halliday, dies, a contest to inherit his fortune comes about, prompting many users to try and find the Easter egg that contains it. After years of the contest hype going down, Wade becomes the first person to make any real progress, and the contest becomes relevant again. Throughout the book, the varying plot points, character developments, and themes made the reading process more interesting.

The book Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline is a book set in the future, where our world is in poverty and chaos. This is because we are almost out of oil, and so a massive power shortage has occurred. The only way people can escape this is too play a online game that has become the internet. This game is called OASIS.

The novel, Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline, follows Wade Watts, or Parzival, and Nolan Sorrento, two very different characters, Wade Watts, or Parzival, and Nolan Sorrento. Using a structuralist critique, Parzival and Sorrento differ in the amount of knowledge each possesses on James Halliday and how much violence each will use to obtain the egg, yet they both share a strong determination to discover the egg. Nolan Sorrento will kill innocent people in order to obtain the egg, while Parzival does not want to harm anyone. Furthermore, Parzival is extremely knowledgeable on James Halliday, while Sorrento cheats by hiring people to study Halliday for him. However, both Parzival and Sorrento are exceptionally determined to find the egg.

A book that I feel strongly about is Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. I love this book because of all the pop culture references to the 80’s, and I enjoy 80’s culture and all of the music and the people from that time. I feel that Ernest Cline wrote the book ant a perfect time because it was just when gaming culture was going into mainstream media. In Ready Player One the world is in 2044. The current generation is called the “Missing Millions” not because they are missing, but because there is nowhere to go because the world is overpopulated, and they have no place to go but the Oasis

Ready Player One had an excellent plot and was dystopian fiction. In Ready Player One Pretty much everyone logs in to the OASIS daily to escape their terrible lives and to interact with their friends in games and chat rooms. Halliday was the creator of the OASIS. Halliday had created easter eggs so that when he died whoever found the egg and had the keys got to be the ruler of the OASIS. Wade Watts found the three keys and got Hallidays mansion his fortune and got to rule the OASIS. He met Art3mis and Aech who were his friends and helped him find the three keys.

Ready Player One is a story of lies, death and deception but in this book it gets ten times worse. Here we explore the inner workings of what we can only assume the author was thinking while also making a vast spider web of connections. This is Ready Player One: An Unofficial Guide

In Ready Player One, Ernest Cline's style can be described as descriptive due to his use of being able to help yous visualize the world, being able to make you feel the tension, and being able to relate and understand characters. Being able to visualize the world is very important to a novel as you can put yourself into the world and the situations that the characters go through. “The stacks explanation” (20 Cline). This explanation of the stacks displays how Ernest Cline is able to guide you to create a picture in your mind of how vast and horrible this world is. This description also helps to backup the fact why everyone hides in the oasis instead of living outside in the real world. A story that is able to captivate a reader and make them feel the tension in a stressful situation is incredible and truly add to the emersion and power of a novel. “6ixers blow up the stacks”(145 Cline). This part of the novel makes you feel the suspense and terror going on through in Wades head as he is unaware if Sorrento was bluffing or not. Then once the explosions go off he has a look of terror on his face yet he is also kind of relieved that he was able to live and thankful that he was in his hideout. The tension that you feel is very serious and takes your breath away as you along with Wade are waiting for something to happen.

In the novel, “Ready Player One”, the author Ernest Cline describes a world that is filled with technology. Everywhere you look, it is technology due to the fact that it is virtual reality. This game has taken over people’s lives to the point where their life is now the game, and the line between virtual and reality is gone. The game has brought joy to people’s live, for instance, the main protagonist of the story Wade Watts. However, the game has become so fundamental to how society functions, that without the game, it would collapse. This type of conflict is the main theme for the novel and the author uses the description of settings, the characterization of certain characters, and the conflict both between different characters, and in themselves, in order to explore the theme of humanities dependence on technology and how it affects them.

game, just to avoid being harassed by men around them. That situation may sound ridiculous to and can upset a majority of the population. One should not feel the need to hide their real gender just to attend a baseball game. So why should women feel the need to hide their gender in online gaming? According to a Tedx Talk speaker Stirling Little, sixty-eight percent of women playing video games have reported hiding their real gender for fear of harassment. If someone were to identify themselves as a woman online, it would be unavoidable to receive sexist comments from other players. As a society we have accepted the idea of harassing women as a social norm. In the novel Ready Player one by Ernest Cline, [basics of the book/summary] we are introduced to examples of characters hiding their genders online in order to be taken more seriously. We can compare Ready Player One to today’s society when it comes to gender issues. In both the novel and society, women have limited job opportunities, are objectified for their sex, and are associated with feminine phrases used by others to insult someone. The public has to start caring about how they treat women online because they make up more than half of the gaming population. If people really want their games to stop following the gender stereotypes, they need to look at themselves as a whole and change the way they think.

In Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, billions of people are searching for James Halliday’s prize which is worth billions of dollars. People are willing to kill for the prize. Players of the OASIS are competing against the IOI, who cheats in order to attempt to obtain the prize. The lower class in Ready Player One is forced to be resourceful in order to overcome the impediment of money in order to achieve their common goal.

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is about Wade Watts a teenager. Wade lived in the stacks which were basically trailers stacked on top of each other. He lived with his aunt and her boyfriend who he dint like and they didn’t like him but he had too live with them because both of his parents were gone.Wade was never the social type of kid this is why he feels more alive in the oasis a virtual world than in the real world.Wade started spending more time in the Oasis once James Halliday passed away. Halliday was the video game designer responsible for creating the Oasis. For some reason his death was big news and no one knew why, Wade himself said “I couldn’t understand why the media was making such a big deal of the billionaires death” (1) . Not long after everyone knew why it was such a big deal. Halliday was billionaire with no family and no one to leave his money to. After all this mass hysteria occurred around the world beause only one person would be able to inherit his fortune, that person would be the one that would follow his conditions.After this moment occurred a string of moments followed. For example, a moment that stood out for me was when the stacks blew up.