Study Guide to Ready Player One by Ernest Cline: Volume 59 - Softcover

Moore M.A., Ray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1548229768 ISBN 13: 9781548229764

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Need help understanding the underlying concepts in this novel?
Ray Moore’s Study Guides aim to provide insights into important, demanding texts.
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.

About this title

About the Author

Ray has worked as a teacher in schools in England and America. He also was an examination marker for English Literature in England and therefore knows how to guide pupils to achieve good results. As a teacher of many years, Ray shares his knowledge of interesting books with you the reader to allow you to delve more deeply beyond the surface reading of a book. His guidance will allow you to develop your own ideas and be able to support your opinions because of your understanding of the text.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1548229768
• ISBN 13: 9781548229764
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 65