by Ernest Cline
reviewed by Samantha Fung
Ernest Cline tells readers about a dystopian society where the majority of the world focuses on technology in his book Ready Player One. The novels begins with an introduction to the plot and a character named Wade. Wade is a teenage who lives a miserable life, so he spends most of his time hiding and playing a video game called OASIS. James Halliday, the billionaire creator behind this video game, created a contest before he died. Halliday created an Easter egg in his video game and all one had to do was to find it. The first one to find this Easter egg would inherit all of his money and fortune. This news spread quickly around the world and soon, everyone spent the majority of their time trying to find the egg. Wade had spent most of his life studying Halliday and his entire life. He knew all of Halliday’s obsessions and even took the time to read and watch books and movies that Halliday liked. This contest was a chance for Wade to find the egg and turn his miserable life around. But, when Wade finds himself in the process of hunting down the egg, he realizes that others are hunting him down too. The hunter becomes the hunted.
Ready Player One really focuses on the topic of identity. In the video game, no one would reveal their true identity. People could be whoever they wanted in the video game and no one would ever know. Identity played such a big role in the novel and helped bring out a character’s true self. Cline wants to teach readers to embrace our personality and our appearance rather than to hide and lie about it. Additionally, Cline wants to show readers a different life in the future where the world is so focused on technology. He presents readers with a dystopian community where essentially, a video game has become the main focus of a person’s life.
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