1. Ready Player One Ch. 17
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2. Why do most people think Art3mis is a male?
Ch SQs page 169+
Why do most people think Art3mis is a male?
2. List a few details about Art3mis.(Parents, Education, etc.)
3. Why doesn’t Wade attend his high school graduation?
4. Explain, “making the climb to ninety-nine.”
5. What movie do Art3mis and Parzival re-enact?

3. Is Art3mis a GUY??!?!!
Most gunters are male
“That’s because most gunters are male, and they can’t accept the idea that a woman has beaten and/or outsmarted them” (170).
Parzival concludes she is female because “I don’t want to find out I’ve got a crush on some 300lb dude named Chuck who lives in his mother’s basement in suburban Detriot” (170).

4. Details about art3mis
She attends college, studying poetry & creative writing
She’s 19 yrs old
She is and “always have been , a human female” (173).
Her parents died from the flu, raised by her grandparents
Brown hair; blue eyes
Fav movie: Highlander
Parzival “I trusted her, even though I had every reason not to” (175).

5. Wade doesn’t attend graduation
“I graduated from high school in early June. I didn’t attend the graduation ceremony. I’d stopped attending classes altogether when I fled the stacks… the Sixers thought I was dead, and I didn’t want to tip them off by showing up for my last few weeks of school. Missing finals week wasn’t a big deal, since I already had more than enough credits to receive my diploma. The school ed a copy of it to me” (175).

6. “making the climb to ninety-nine.”
“When I wasn’t hanging out with my new online pseudo- girlfriend, I devoted the rest of my time to leveling up my avatar. Gunters called this ‘making the climb to ninety- nine,’ because ninety-ninth level was the maximum power level an avatar could attain” (175). -See p. 175 to see which avatars have attained “the maximum power level an avatar could attain” (175).

7. More movies ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkplPbd2f60