1. Ready Player One: Chapter 0002
Mrs Bly
Eng 4

2. Welcome to the 1980s

3. What is in Wade’s avatar’s item inventory?
Textbooks
A flashlight
An iron short sword
A small bronze shield
A suit of banded leather
ALL NONMAGICAL & LOW QUALITY
Why does it matter what is in his inventory?
B he needs these items for the hunt!

4. Who is Parzival?
Based off the knight of Arthurian legend who had found the Holy Grail

5. OASIS School What does his avatar look like? (28)
What info does the school require when registered ?
Wade’s real name
Avatar name
Mailing address
Social security number
What is his name at school? Why not Parzvial?
Wade3
How is his school in OASIS similar or different from our school?

6. What does Wade really look like?
P. 30
“For me, school [IN THE REAL WORLD] had been a Darwinian exercise” (31)
In the OASIS, in Wade attends OASIS Public School #1873 on the planet Ludus (where ALL OASIS public schools were located.
BEFORE enrolling in the OASIS Public School, he avatar was ONLY “on Incipio, the planet at the center of Sector One where new avatars were spawned at the time of their creation” (31)
To move from place to place, you must pay a teleportation fare to go there.

7. IOI & the “Sixers” IOI= Innovative Online Industries
“a global communications conglomerate and the world’s largest Internet service provider” (33).
“Sixers”= the gunters who WORK for IOI and search for the Easter Egg
-they sign a “ contract stipulating, among other things, that if you found Halliday’s egg, the prize would become the sole property of your employer” (33).
IE IOI & “Sixers” = The Enemy

8. Art3mis
One of Wade’s favorite websites= a blog by Art3mis called “Arty’s Missives”
“It probably goes without saying that I had a huge cyper-crush on Art3mis” (35)
What does her avatar look like?? (35)

9. Aech Wade’s best (and only) friend
Wade spends time in Aech’s chat room

10. Ch. 0002 SQs 1. Explain the value of the OASIS credit.
-”The OASIS credit was the coin of the realm …It was also one of the world’s most stable currencies, valued higher than the dollar, pound, euro, or yen” (28).
2. Explain the school’s policy for avatars and names.
-dress code= all avatars had to be human and same gender and age as student
-names= can’t use your avatar’s name at school; students required to use first names followed by a number. Student ID= Wade3
3. What is a cyber-squatter?
-a person who take a name of a celebrity and keeps it to sell to the highest bidder: “Celebrities had been known to pay huge sums of money to buy an avatar name they wanted from a cyber-squatter” (28).

11. SQs 4. Identify Wade’s avatar. What is the origin of his name?
Parzival= the Arthurian knight (Knights of the Round Table) who finds the Holy Grail.
Face & body looks like Wade’s…but has a slightly smaller nose, taller, thinner, and more muscular and no acne! (28)
5. Wade plans on becoming a full-time gunter after high school. What are his other options?
-”I didn’t have the money to attend college…and my grades weren’t good enough for a scholarship” (29). “Wining the contest was my ONE chance of escaping the stacks” (29)
6. At school the only real weapons are ______WORDS________ . “The entire planet of Ludus [where the schools are located] was a no-Pvp zone, meaning no player-versus-player combat was permitted” (30)

12. SQs continued
7. How does Wade’s physical appearance differ from his avatar?
He is overweight. Old thrift store clothes. Acne. “I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self- esteem and almost no social skills– a side effect of spending most of my childhood inside the OASIS” (30)
8. What had happened to the public school system?
“The real public school system, the one run by the government, had been an underfunded, overcrowded train wreck for decades” (31).

13. SQs 9. Describe Oasis Public School #1873.
On planet Ludus. Among hundreds of campuses on Ludus. All schools looked exactly the same. “…Every school was a grand palace of learning, with polished marble hallways, cathedral-like classrooms, zero-g gymnasiums, and virtual libraries containing every (school board-approved) book ever written” (32).

14. SQs 10. What does it mean for an Avatar to be “engaged”?
“Their avatars all sat motionless, with their eyes closed. This was a signal that they were ‘engaged,’ meaning they were currently on phone calls, browsing the Web, or logged into chat rooms” (32).
11. What is a “Sixer”? Explain how they got their name. Describe their appearance.
 -The derogatory nickname gunters had given to employees of IOI. Called “Sixers” because the employees of IOI avatar’s names were their employee numbers..which were all SIX DIGITS in length and they all began with the number ‘6’

15. SQs
12. What is the purpose of Innovative Online Industries (IOI) Oology Division ?
 ”To win Halliday’s contest and seize control of the fortune, his company, and the OASIS itself” (33).
13. Who is Art3mis? Describe Art3mis’s avatar.
 Wade’s cyber crush. Black hair, pretty hair, big hazel eyes, rounded cheekbones, a pointy chin, perpetual smirk (35) Short and curving body (like Ruben’s paintings)
14. Describe Aech.
He is Wade’s best (and only) friend.

16. Conclusion -1980s