Ready Player One Analysis

In the first part of Ready Player One, while Wade is chilling in his small area of the house, He starts to get controlled. The way he is controlled is that whille he is play games on his computer and watching classic TV shows, his aut comes in and takes his laptop to pawn it. Instead of trying to go out and find a way to earn money or even pawn something of hers, she took Wade’s computer Another way that the kids and people in the world were most likely controlled, is through the OASIS. The OASIS is a virtual world where everyone is hooked up to a mainframe source. They have to be connected to the OASIS through special equipment that hooks up the participants head and body. All the people that hook up to the OASIS do it willingly because they’ve been told by the government that the OASIS is a perfect world. In reality, the are monitoring their evey thought and action.

Wade, the main character in Ready Player One, is already aware that he is not in a utopia. The world leaders at this time have created a virtual world called the OASIS. Due to countless world problems such as, “overpopulation, no sustainible energy, and unemployment.” (Ch. 1) Wade explains these problems to us in the first chapter, while also explaining how since everyone spends, “about 18 hours a day in it,” (Ch. 2) it being the OASIS. Most people think they are in a utopia.

Since the people have treated the earth so bad, they have caused an “energy crisis” (Ch.1) which means that the whole world has used more energy than we have produced which has caused the whole world to run out of energy. This great fear of the outside world has caused the people of earth to turn to a virtual reality, called the OASIS, where they spend every moment awake in the virtual reality world. The energy crisis has caused the people on earth to turn to the OASIS instead of facing the fear of the outside world which is only making the problem