Ready Player One Analysis

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is a story where the people live in a dystopian world and they use the Oasis, “a massive multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality” (Cline 1), as an escape. In Ready Player One, a group in the Oasis called gunters exist and they live in the video games code. Gunters are the people who “devoted every free moment of their lives to searching for Halliday’s egg” (Cline 8). Gunters value honor, individuality, prestigious, competition, the hunt, and Halliday. A reason for this, is how much they devote their time in learning everything they can about Halliday. Halliday is the Oasis creator and he the one that designed the game, so the gunters their time in reading his Anorak’s Almanac, it is like a bible to them and Halliday the god.

Gunter are egg hunters so they value the egg and hunt itself. The egg presents the hidden step in winning the game and the hunters are someone who hunts and decifers the riddle. Gunters value the fate of the Oasis, that is why they spend their time trying to win the game, because if not, the Oasis would fo the IOI, who want to overtake Oasis and make it a marketing technique. IOI use sixers to win the games and they hold conform to whatever IOI say, that helps place honor and individuality at a higher standard to the gunters. In video game system, the eggs and the hunt is an important aspect in winning the game and cheating is looked very low upon, so this helps build the values to the gunters and placing them on the high