OASIS
It’s the year 2045 society is destroyed, it is affected by overpopulation, unemployment, and poverty. People prefer to escape reality by playing a hyper-reality video game called OASIS. Everyone in town plays this game, is a hit. Wade Watts is an 18 year old boy who is really good at this game.
One day a rich man, named Halliday, sent through the game for everyone a message which said that the one who found the 3 keys and opened the three gates, would receive billions of dollars and gain total control of the game. Everyone was shocked and they tried to find the keys, so everyone needed and wanted money.
Wade met Art3mis in the game, her avatar was sexy and he liked her; then, after a while they became friends. One day when Wade went to school, he figured out that the first key must be there. So he started to look for it and he got it after a few obstacles.
Art3emis got the second one, while she was followed by the people in the IOI company, who were the ones trying to find the keys first. After this, Art3mis, Wade and three other guys made a group to find the last key, but the IOI people noticed and provoked an explosion that killed everyone in the game, however, Wade had an extra life, so he found the last key and won the game. Right after, Wade gained control of the game, the money and the girl.
Conflict
That everyone tried to catch the keys and open the doors and when they got though, everyone was killed
Climax
When IOI people and them fight, and the explosion occurred, it caused everyone’s death.
Resolution
Wade had another life and with the coin he won in the PAC-man game, he had another life, so he won.
Title and relationship with its content
For me the relation between the title and the story was that Wade was ready, not only to win, but to escape that awful reality he was living in, he was ready to win the game.
Author’s purpose
For me the author's purpose was to show how people can’t stand living in the miserable world that is around them, and instead of trying to change the world, they prefer to escape from it, so it shows the inability to face our problems.
Characters
Wade
Art3mis
IOI people also called the sixers
Shoto and Daito (enemies)
Halliday
Opinion
For me this was a really amazing story thy shows how we can’t face problems sometimes, the fact that we ignore our surroundings if there is any issue, instead of going out and solving it, we stay home waiting for it to just go away, we escape from reality with our phones, our dreams, and many things.
This world needs action, not ignorance. People create their own world in their mind or at home just to escape their cruel reality. That’s why I liked this book which shows reality and it leaves you a lesson:
” I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world.”
By Camila Orozco, Step 10
