Study Guide to Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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Ready Player One is Ernest Cline’s best selling dystopian novel set in the United States in the mid-2040s. Cline describes a world in economic depression and social turmoil where the majority of the population evade reality by logging into the OASIS - a massive, multiplayer virtual universe hidden within which is its creator’s vast fortune.

This guide offers the reader insight into a novel which seems simultaneously to eulogize virtual reality and criticize it as an addictive drug.
Includes:

• preface and introduction;
• detailed discussion of characters, genre, narrative voice, setting, themes and symbolism;
• chapter-by-chapter commentary,with helpful explanatory notes,
• guiding questions that suggest issues for further discussion and thought;.
• provocative quotations from critics to stimulate post-reading discussion and writing;
• graphic organizers that allow the reader to make concise notes;
• glossary of relevant literary terms;
• suggestions for group discussion whether in the classroom or a reading circle.

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