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 egg. The conflict of the book, “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline is that Wade Watts is on a mission to find all the keys that lead to the Easter egg that James Halliday hid. James Halliday’s corporation, OASIS, is the wealthiest and most stable of the world. Now players all around the world are trying to find the keys that lead to the egg and the fortune that belonged to Halliday. Wade logs onto the game as an avatar known as Parzival …show more content…
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
The Westing Game has lots of mystery, red herring, and of course victory and loss. Using chess Sam W. Westing was able to fool all but one. The winning heir, Turtle Wexler, used it to find the fourth, claiming her win to Sam W. Westing. That proved that she was the smartest and the one that was able to take is company. The book and movie are different, but similar too.
In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”, he uses several literary devices to keep the reader interested. During Rainsfords journey to and through the island of General Zaroff he partakes in an adventurous journey filled with mystery, suspense, and dilemma. These devices are used to keep the reader interested throughout the story.
In the beginning of the novel, the main character, Georgie, is introduced along with his aunt, Miss Frobisher. The two of them live in wealth and prosper in the game of croquet. Georgie and his aunt spend a great amount of spare
In “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell correlates three common literary devices especially well: setting, suspense, and plot. Connell makes use of an appropriate setting, the literary element of suspense, and an interesting plot in order to strengthen the story’s recurring theme of reason versus instinct within humans, and to blur that line between reason and instinct.
Even though “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and “The Rocking Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence are very different, they both display characters with a desire for more than what they are given. Lawrence’s character, Paul, wants luck mostly for his mother. Paul believes that if he can bring more money into the whispering house then it will stop. Connell’s character, General Zaroff, gets bored with the hunt of regular game so he creates own game to hunt.
The novel Ender’s Game is written by Orson Schott Card. It is about a young boy who is sent to battle school. He meets friends and makes adversaries. In battle school, out in space, Ender, the young boy is a genius and is taught many tactics to destroy their prime enemy the buggers. He excels in school and battles his way into command school before the required age. There he is told he is battling buggers in simulations or is he? Throughout the novel, Ender is manipulated, bullied, and isolated, which creates many themes and messages. In this novel Ender’s Game the main theme is life is a game. Three characters that best prove this are Ender, Peter, and Bonzo.
As Edmund Burke so wisely said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Ernest Cline shows how human beings do not sit back but take action in the face of injustices in his novel, Ready Player One. Ready Player One is a novel set in futuristic Earth that is suffering from an energy crisis. The populace escapes the grimness of their lives and the even more grim prospects for the future using the OASIS, a virtual reality simulation. IOI, a major telecommunications company, is planning to take over the OASIS and pervert its original purpose by monetizing it in a way that would restrict most of the populace from using it due to the extreme poverty they live in. Ernest Cline illustrates the great lengths
Many writers make sure that readers are pulled into the plot line by using suspense. In “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell excites the readers by making them await a certain outcome. Connell combines foreshadowing and tension to create uneasiness in the minds of the readers.
Due to a decline of natural resources, the year 2040 is filled with poverty, famine, and crime across the nation. The safest way for most citizens to live is on the online network, The Oasis, where one could attend school or shop online, rather than venturing out of the home to do these dangerous tasks. The Oasis creates opportunities, as highlighted in Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One. Eighteen year old Wade Owen Watts turns to his computer in hopes of improving his current living situation by embarking on a gaming journey, where the winner is awarded a large amount of money. Through Wade Watts, author Ernest Cline emphasizes the theme of finding an escape to distract an individual from their current life.
The Westing Game is about an old billionaire, named Sam Westing. He looks for an heir to inherit his fortune. The pairs of heirs were given a set of clues. Sam Westing was not really dead but playing three other roles. Turtle Wexler solves the mystery. The Westing Game book and movie have many similarities and differences.
He has an idea to be rich, and he wants it fast. Being nine year old, he starts out looking for jobs in his neighborhood. After doing two jobs, he earns a nickel, a quarter and two peaches. He has money, and he can do whatever he wants. So with a friend and his sister, they go swimming. Money, to him at this age, affects him greatly already. From his own family, he learns that without money, they'll always be poor and working class. He has the need to be higher in social class and he wants to be like rich people.
The theme of Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” that I found significant and thought-provoking was perseverance; determined, persistent, and stick to doing something, despite the difficulty or delay in accomplishing. Most important, throughout the story, the lead character Sanger Rainsford is a survivor. I consider an admiring and motivating trait in Rainsford; he does not quit or leave himself to being defeated during the challenges he confronts.
Divergent is set in a futuristic Chicago were everyone is separated into 5 sections of Chicago. Throughout the story the characters take trips to the Ferris Wheel of Navy Prier, the Hancock building, the Willis (formally Sears) Tower, and Millennium Park.
Oasis is portrayed as the future, however not thousands of years from now but 28 years from today. The world they live in is a dystopia and practically everything is corrupt. Everyone living there uses OASIS and it takes over their lives because everything circulates around the company. James Halliday, who was one of the creators of OASIS, sent out a quest to inherit all his fortunes if they can find this magical egg but must find all three keys to do so. Wade who is the main character in the novel was the most determined to find it. Many thoughts and questions came up while reading this novel. The main question that came to mind was Wade was so focused on finding the egg and soon enough he did find it, however the obsession he had will he
In the video game Enter the Matrix, released in 2003, the players take on the role of supporting characters in the film sequel Matrix Reloaded. They play the side stories; those that not appear on screen in the film. The game is inspired by the world that is depicted in the film. Enter the Matrix displays distinct visual parallel between the film and the video game. The overlook of the film and video game is similar and distinguishable because the video game mimics the visual style of the film. It gets players satisfied with their purchase of the game. Playing the game is a different experience for the players because it connects them with the source material. It allows them to be part of the story and to feel to be the character of their franchise. Players are considered spectators too because there are some cinematic cut scenes that are shown in the game which makes them observe and do n...