Analysis Of Ready Player One By Ernest Cline

The book “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline is an interesting book to analyze. The main character of the book is teenager Wade Watts. The setting is in the year of 1944 where there is an energy crisis going on with the depletion of fossil fuels and it causes global warming. To try to escape the crisis the world is facing, humans turned to OASIS, which is a virtual reality simulator that allows players to be apart of a social society. James Halliday is the creator of OASIS and once he died, he announced that whoever finds the Easter egg inside OASIS will keep his entire fortune and corporation. Wade Watts finds one of the keys that leads to the egg five years after the announcement and now has to compete and befriend other people to find the
The author uses his craft to always keep the tension going on in the book. The book is very fast paced as there is always an ongoing conflict going on through the book. The author uses Wade to show off his intelligence throughout the book as he shows his interests in the virtual reality world. When reading the book, the reader can feel as if they are in a movie picturing all the avatars and games around them. At the beginning of the story, the author describes how the world was turned upside down due to humans not taking care of the environment. It can be compared to how in today’s world, people are criticized for not treating the environment correctly. The author also makes you want to have sympathy towards Wade as he grows up poor and has a passion for video games. He has had a tough childhood and lived in stacks for the most part of his life as he is poor. Later on in the book Sorrento blows up Wade’s home and it is very devastating how Wade’s world can be turned even worse. The author wants to keep the reader entertained by dropping details about how Wade is nearing to success. The reader keeps on being entertained as the tension goes on through the majority of the book. The author makes “Ready Player One” a suspenseful book as he keeps the conflict going on through the
Although it can be a hard book to understand at times due to the knowledge of technology and video games that some readers don’t have. However, the book is a great one to read as it follows Wade Watts, a poor teenager who went through a tough childhood, become one of the wealthiest people alive. The book is very interesting to look at as it shows how a teenage boy overcame his obstacles to become a successful person to look up to. The book “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline teaches the reader that no matter how poor you are growing up, you should never give up as you still have a great chance of becoming