Book Summary: Ready Player One

Technology and the economy of today is growing and getting more advanced than ever, yet the world can go completely upside down in 29 years from today. In the book Ready Player One, Ernest Cline states that the world is in the year 2045, the future is absolutely corrupt and everyone is living in a dystopian world. Almost everyone uses OASIS, an online gaming program, and is ultimately many people's escape from their reality. The creator, James Halliday, sent out an alarming announcement interrupting everyone’s day addressing a mission about a hidden easter egg in the game. If someone can find the easter egg , they will inherit his fortune. Wade Watts, the main character, was set and determined to find the egg and made it his greatest goal when

In a world that is centered around technology and the media, it is no wonder that Harris and Kelbold fell into the violent virtual world of video games. Doom, the boys’ favorite video game, displays you as a space marine whose mission is the kill people on the planet. High levels of violent graphics and the Satanic imagery embedded violent thoughts in the boys’ minds (“Nineteen Minutes”). The video, Natural Born Killers, also put aggressive thoughts into the boys’ minds (Rosenburg).. These media images as well as hateful music, planted the seeds of the future massacre in both Harris and Kepold’s minds. In a world of criticism, Peter also turned to the virtual world to escape. His interest turns to HTML code as well as violent music. Grand Theft Auto, his favorite game, ranks points by killing innocent people. He ends up creating his own video game, Hide and Shriek, in which his avatar runs through the school slaughtering jocks, bullies, and other popular kids. (Helium)

All Americans know and believe in freedom for all, but when put into perspective, are we really free? We have the freedom to go where we want, choose what we desire, and do what we please, as long as we stay within the limited freedoms given to us by society. The question arises, are these restrictions necessary? Jean-Jacques Rousseau once stated in The Social Contract, “Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains” I happen to agree with that statement, that people are given freedom from birth, but are restricted by the rules of today's beliefs. However I do not believe it is the right thing for society to do, and neither does the main character, Wade Watts, in Ernest Cline’s dystopian novel Ready Player One. This quote can also be

The story “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell, manages to be a staple of classic American literature despite its short length. In it, a traveling hunter named Sanger Rainsford is shipwrecked on a mysterious island, where he meets an eccentric Russian named General Zaroff who hunts people for sport. Tides turn when Rainsford turns into Zaroff’s new prey. Although the story has many strong moments, one of the most interesting is the use of foreshadowing to add elements such as depth and suspense to the plot. Foreshadowing continues throughout the short story as an important literary device and can be seen as early as the first page.

At the beginning of the story, Wade Owen Watts introduces himself as the narrator and main character. He gives the reader information about his generation and why global warming caused the earth to fall into a superheated ruin. He also informs the reader about where he lives and how his home was made. He lives in the stacks, which is a bunch of RVs stacked and joined together by pipes and scaffolding. Wade then goes on to explain the reason for the contest, the will-like video that is broadcasted everywhere upon James Donovan Halliday’s demises, announcing that the ownership of the OASIS, as well as the entire sum of Halliday’s fortune. Following the prologue, Wade begins the story in the laundry room of his mean Aunt’s RV, playing games and

I thought that the conflict that Rashad has to go through and the environment that Rashad is put in makes the story so much better. Like how he has to take care of his younger brother, Will, every single day because his mother has to work all day. When he takes care of Will it shows the responsible side of Rashad, but when he’s with his friends, he’s a whole different kid. Rashad would go to parties with his friends and drink and get in fights. Rashad and his family do not have the best neighborhood but they love the area and the people around them.

The movie Silver Lining playbook is an award winning movie that exposes some social disorders that the community as a whole as engaged in for years. “A word-of-mouth hit in 2012, David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook has been popularly discussed as successfully targeting an adult audience under-served in contemporary Hollywood, as “authentically” reflecting the parenting challenges of its star and director, and as portraying a “modern” romance about a sympathetic, deeply damaged protagonist couple” (Nadel P1.).

Wade Watts, is an 80 's fanatic, living in Oklahoma in the mid-21st century in a world that is experiencing famine, a repressing government, and a failing global economy. Like many people during this time, he spent most of his time on OASIS, a free virtual world where people can explore, work, play, and even attend school; like Wade.

“The captain tried to apologize when he saw who I was, but I wasn't in a forgiving mood,” (Cline 839). Wade Watts is faced with the toughest challenge of his life in Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. In this 80’s pop culture filled novel, the world is plunged into a grim future. The only way for Wade and the rest of the world to escape, is by playing a massive video game. However, when it’s multi-billionaire creator dies, the world breaks it’s neck searching for his hidden fortune. Ernest Cline uses unique imagery to transport the reader into a future dominated by the past.

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.

Welcome to the OASIS, a hyper-realistic, 3D, videogame paradise. It's 2045, and pretty much everyone logs in to the OASIS daily to escape their terrible lives, lives affected by overpopulation, unemployment, and energy shortages. Eighteen-year-old Wade Watts is one of these people, and he has a mission: to find an Easter egg hidden inside the OASIS by its wackadoodle creator, James Halliday.

Throughout Ready Player One, small keys are shown to have great importance. Firstly, there are the three keys that a player must find to acquire the egg. Secondly, there are small items and bits of knowledge that prove to be immaterial keys necessary to complete the task. One such item greatly stands out in the challenge Wade faces: the quarter. Most readers would forget about this little, ordinary object, but at the end of the novel, it is known how vital this quarter really was. In addition to being an important aspect in the conclusion of Ready Player One and Wade’s ultimate victory, the quarter appears to have a mysterious religious connection.

“If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!” (Veronica Roth). The novel “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline focuses on a young teenager, Wade Watts, and the struggle he goes through to win a late video game developers fortune. Set during an energy crisis, an orphan who lives in a virtual world called the OASIS, like everyone else, struggles to stay alive. With crime rates increasing, and the food supply decreasing, the OASIS was Wade’s only escape. However, when the developer, James Halliday, passed away, he started a contest for dedicated players of the OASIS. Unbeknownst to Halliday, many of these players would turn against each other out of desperation for his fortune. Halliday attempted to make a new world where

Rather than viewing the aforementioned gamer’s practices as grounded in a particular context (e.g., a living room or a video game or an affinity space), focused on a particular activity (e.g., writing or watching a video), ortied to a particular modality (e.g., print, digital), it is possible to conceptualize such practices as part of a transmedia ecology in which participation in literate practice is distributed across time, space, and media platform, and coheres around a particular storyworld. A traditional storyworld is a fictional universe with invented characters, settings, and characteristics that has been

In Ready Player One, the creation of a virtual identity, or avatar, unleashes one’s true self. In this cyberworld game, one can create their character to be their ideal person; physically, intellectually, and emotionally. The virtual reality creates the backdrop against which the action takes place and the characters play out their roles. Interestingly, the gamers who control their respective avatar have within themselves some of the same characteristics that they have built into their ideal personas. Though some of these characteristics may be exaggerated, and some, such as gender, may be reversed, the bravery, intelligence, aptitude, and heroics displayed in the virtual world are present in these same people in the real world. They may be deeply hidden, and afraid to show themselves, but by being exhibited by their avatars in the virtual world, they become uncovered and can begin to manifest themselves by the gamers in the real world.