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Who Is Ernest Cline's Ready Player One?

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Ready Player One written by Ernest Cline, is a sci-fi story about a teenager named Wade Watts, also known by his avatar as Parzival, who hates living in the real world and the only way he can escape it, is by using the 3D OASIS gaming console. Wade is an 18-year-old, who dislikes the real world and tries to avoid it as much as possible by spending most of his time being "jacked" into OASIS. After Wade’s parents die, he endes up living with his with his aunt, her boyfriend and a bunch of other people in what they refer to as the stacks. The stacks are dozens of trailers stacked one on top of another held together by "a network of metal girders,” and were the primary source of housing for disadvantaged families. In 2045, most people that live …show more content…

In his video, Halliday leaves clear instructions stating that in order to find the egg, users must first find the three keys (copper, jade, and crystal) and unlock their corresponding gates. Five years go by since Halliday’s death and Wade, aka Parzival, finds the first key, the Copper Key, inside the Tomb of Horrors by reenacting the entire WarGames movie. During his quest for the Copper Key, Wade meets Art3mis, a young blogger with a beautiful, pleasing avatar that catches Wade's …show more content…

Wade and Art3mis, start to become close and the friendship between Wade and his best friend Aech starts to drift apart. In an effort to focus on winning the game, Art3mis also cuts off contact with him. In route to the Jade Key, Wade finds out that Art3mis has beat him to it and has stolen the number one spot. Wade continues on to find the third key by reenacting the movie “Blade Runner”, beating the game “Black Tiger”, and reciting the Rush album. All seems to go well until Wade finds out that the Innovative Online Industries (IOI) also has the key. Nolan Sorrento, the leader of the IOI, wants to take over the whole OASIS by winning the competition. At this point, Aech, Art3mis, and Parzival (Wade) decide that the best plan to defeat the IOI is by working together and have the biggest battle in gaming history with giant robots and a Mechagodzilla. It was going to be to the death. Everyone except Parzival, is virtually killed during the battle. The final challenge is when Wade enters the last gate, and finds himself in Halliday's office where he meets Anorak, Halliday's avatar, and is awarded digital immortality and Halliday's

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