Jaden Gregg

English

P:3

October 18th 2017

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In the book “Ready Player One” there are a variety of elements played into it.

There is love, hate, and many more emotions. Ernest Cline tries to make sure that many

people can relate to Wade or known as Parzival. The main character Wade is put many

situations that express most of the emotions that the world has to offer. Ernest Cline

realizes that he has to take this very boring character and make him very entertaining, he

does this through putting him situations no one else would have. He puts many mini

climaxes throughout the book that eventually lead to the final and overwhelming climax.

Ernest Cline has an enchanting way of giving a character an actual personality from

nothing, In “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline it says “I’d renamed my avatar Parzival”,

this shows that Wade actually has things he does, he knows this person in particularly

from a movie, he knows his films, he has a hobby. This book transforms all characters

introduced into something never imaginable, it shows that such a thing is possible.

In the book “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline the primary conflict is the easter

egg hunt set up by James Halliday, who is a multibillionaire who set up this contest to

give away all of his possessions and the Oasis. The Oasis is a huge galaxy filled with

many planets that have many different things on it, people all around the world must

have a rig to play in it, it allows them to an avatar that roams and does whatever they
want. Wade is a gunter, which is a person hunting for the egg. He is faced with many

challenges such as deciphering the eggs riddle, or facing the sixers. He has to find the

last egg before anyone, he makes friends and loses some, he in the end wins the entire

competition, but when he wins he realizes that the Oasis is not actual life, actual life is

outside, and that he should not forget that.

This book is science fiction. It has meets all the criteria in order to be a science

fiction book, there is technological advances and many other elements that just fall into

that category. I personally fell in love with this book, I love the 80’s, they were a better

time, a time when people didn't hide behind monitors and people actually interacted. It

had many geeky things that appealed to me such as the obsession with video games, i

may not be as a big of nerd as the people in the story but i still felt like i could join any

conversation they had. Science fiction is read more by this generation, it has

technological advancements that are usually pretty achievable these days. Our

generation usually relates more to the characters in the books aswell, and a story to

which you don't relate is not a story that you should be reading. Overall “Ready Player

One” was a great book in my eyes, it would appeal to many others in my generation or to

those who are geeks, it relates in ways that cannot be described.

Citations
Cline, Ernest. Aug 16, 2017. “Ready Player One”. Random House.