Ready Player One Analysis

Humanity’s impending doom of a dystopian future is not much further away from humanity now as it was decades back. Mankind has depleted its energy sources greatly and in return overpopulate and, in theory still, deal with global warming. However, that’s just consulting the energy crisis alone. Humanity is also its own greatest enemy and is has to deal with the greediness of not only its leaders and providers, but also itself. Although humans know all this, how are they still thriving under all these struggles? Because humans have distractions. Distractions that people can put all these troubles aside just to look at the more entertaining aspects that the rest of peoples’ lives have to offer. This is what Ready Player One is really about. Ready Player One is the story of Wade Watts, a young man born into the one of the worst situations imaginable: dead parents, a nasty aunt, a crummy household, and the rest of the planet in a worse state than it currently is, since it is 2045 afterall. Wade, along with numerous others in his shoes would not really have a ‘will to live if it weren’t for the gift of
The book’s narrator, Wade, exemplifies the ways people can’t stand each other in just the stacks alone. Such examples include “Gunfire wasn’t uncommon in the stacks”(Cline) and “Even if there was an unexplained explosion, people in the stacks would just think of it as a meth lab accident and move on, not even caring to uncover the bodies or look into the situation some more”(Cline). Due to the immense overpopulation on Earth by the time of 2045, human lives have become more and more expendable. This is all due to the fact that there are just not enough resources for everyone anymore and to have some few die from time to time is more of a favor than a curse. Even higher ups have no problem describing these low lives as bottomfeeders or even cockroaches. Speaking of ‘higher ups’, they are also the