“Let me tell you the secret that has lead me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” -Louis Pasteur. Forge, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, is about Curzon, a boy that turns into a young man as he faces the hardships of Valley Forge in the winter.
Coming of Age with the Yankees The book Bat Boy by Matthew McGough is a autobiography. Bat Boy is a print written in 2005 several years after Matthew finished working in the clubhouse. The book takes place in Bronx, New York City, New York. Matthew’s life started in 1975, in New York City, New York.
Ready Player One follows Wade Watts, a teeanger escaping from the harsh realities of the real world, lives within the OASIS, a virtual reality “most of humanity now used on a daily basis.” When the creator of the OASIS, James Halliday dies, he leaves a huge fortune behind. Without any heirs, Halliday concluded that his fortune and power can only be inherited by an OASIS user who finds Halliday’s Easter egg within the virtual game using the clues he left behind. After years of searching for the egg, hope was lost until one night Wade Watts is the first to find the Copper Key, the key to unlocking the First Gate and to eventually finding the egg, and so he tells the story of what really happened of the Hunt for the egg. Considering the book in it’s
A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government is a novel surrounding government myths. This novel is written by Garry Wills. From militias to sovereign states, many things that we as a society believe about our history is what he proves wrong, in this book. He brings light to the myths we all believe revealing what truthfully had happened. Garry Wills not only attacks myths that we have made but also different views we have.
In Ready Player One by Ernest Cline there was a lot of different elements in the book that benefitted the players. All of these things helped but not as much as one thing. In this book I think friendship between the players was the true "power". One friendship between two people that I think was very powerful and important was the friendship between Parzival and Aech. One example of the friendship being strong is when Parzival said "If you were a solo, you didn't want or need help, from anyone."
The struggle of man versus nature long has dwelt on the consciousness of humanity. Is man an equal to his environment? Can the elements be conquered, or only endured? We constantly find ourselves facing these questions along with a myriad of others that cause us to think, where do we fit? These questions, crying for a response, are debated, studied, and portrayed in both Jack London’s “
Everyone knows about the Movie ready player one hitting theater March 29, 2018. However, a lot of people have not realized the book is already out. The book Ready Player One was written by Ernest Cline back in 2011. In his book, Cline did a fantastic job with details that draw the reader in, character development, and loads of 80’s references.
A famous quote says, “Fate decides who comes into your life. Your heart decides who stays. ” There is no changing the people that are put in your path. Meeting them is inevitable, maybe even destiny.
Did you know that producing a solid relationship with your parents and demonstrating empathy can lead to a more nourishing lifestyle? Coming of age is the way a young kid is tossed into the real world as he or she grows up and matures. One tremendous element of growing up are the affinities you build with your parents. Another is the way you comprehend how to convey empathy toward others. Developing empathy towards others along with forming the status of your relationship with your parents creates a more capable and more tenacious personality and a greater insight into life.
2) Main Conflict The main conflict in the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, is Predator vs Prey. Connell’s literary masterpiece showcases a perfect example of the hunter becoming the hunted or the predator becoming the prey. It is revealed in the actions and thoughts of Rainsford who epitomizes prey, and General Zaroff, who exemplifies the predator. This conflict is resolved when their roles are switched.
The literary fiction novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, focuses on a mental hospital in Oregon, and the patients that live there. It is told from the perspective of Chief Bromden, a schizophrenic, who compares society to a delusion he calls the Combine. The hospital is ran with strict rules, which are carried out by Nurse Ratched, or as the patients call her, Big Nurse. In the beginning of the book, another main character, Randle McMurphy, is transferred from a local jail into the hospital. Upon arriving, he immediately challenges the rules, and even sneaks in a prostitute.
Player One: What is to Become of Us? Only five short hours make up the timeline of this novel, but in such a short period of time the reader surprisingly finds themselves very involved in the story. In a small airport lounge on the outskirts of Toronto four people meet for the very first time. Luke the runaway pastor, Karen the outspoken ‘cougar’, Rick the unlucky bartender, Rachel the robotic beauty, and Player One the more humane alter ego of Rachel all tell their side of the story as it unravels. It may have seemed like a typical day for these people until the unthinkable happens and the life of everyone in that small airport lounge would forever be changed.
One concept that I learned while reading this novel was that love or even attraction to someone can heavily deter you from any life goal or objective you have preset in your life. At times love and attraction can be the strongest motivations of the way you conduct your life, the things you do, think, and say. This is evident in Ready Player one, a novel by Ernest Cline, when the protagonist Wade Watts has a realization that he was no longer doing anything to try and further reach his life goal to find the egg in the OASIS. His life had been chained up, picked up, and slammed off course by the woman of his dream, that he had never met in real life (only in the OASIS), named Art3mis.
“You are suspended — physically immobilized, frozen but alive — 20 miles beneath the surface of an automated planet.” That was the idea, as Michael W. Clune explains in his new memoir, “Gamelife,” behind a 1980s computer game called Suspended that hooked him when he was 7. “Think logically,” the game’s manual read. “Act decisively. Your life — and that of the entire planet — depends on you.”
One of the biggest issues our society faces today is paying for college. College tuition alone is expensive, but then they want you to pay for books, room and board, and basically to give up your first born child to go to school there. It is a hassle in itself to meet the certain criteria that colleges ask for. If you can get a full ride somewhere, you have to be Albert Einstein. It is all such an intimidating process once you get there, I’m sure.
